Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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Page 3
... comes with sharply defined borders . The earth- quake at New Madrid , which drew down fifty miles of farms along the bank of our great river , made other hundreds of miles tremble . The convulsion which was so ter- rific at Krakatoa ...
... comes with sharply defined borders . The earth- quake at New Madrid , which drew down fifty miles of farms along the bank of our great river , made other hundreds of miles tremble . The convulsion which was so ter- rific at Krakatoa ...
Page 5
... come the sentiment of Tacitus that it was dangerous for a man to be honorable . The Judean Star was still only a poor Jew- ish candle , not visible far from Nazareth . What Roman virtue and religion remained in men like the Antonines ...
... come the sentiment of Tacitus that it was dangerous for a man to be honorable . The Judean Star was still only a poor Jew- ish candle , not visible far from Nazareth . What Roman virtue and religion remained in men like the Antonines ...
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... come a new charm in what was called deep thought . It was generally assumed that learning must be something much deeper than ordinary forms of thinking , and into this error ran almost the entire flock of intellectual men in Egypt ...
... come a new charm in what was called deep thought . It was generally assumed that learning must be something much deeper than ordinary forms of thinking , and into this error ran almost the entire flock of intellectual men in Egypt ...
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... come with his interminable commentaries ; and by the time the new era was well versed in his volumes , Plotinus was on hand with a genius that dazzled the third century , and with ideas that formed a labyrinth com- pared with which that ...
... come with his interminable commentaries ; and by the time the new era was well versed in his volumes , Plotinus was on hand with a genius that dazzled the third century , and with ideas that formed a labyrinth com- pared with which that ...
Page 10
... comes the soul ; and that by the means of the soul the spirit comes into contact with a material world . For a long time it was not known whether these writ- ings were the friend or the enemy of the new Christianity ; but after the ...
... comes the soul ; and that by the means of the soul the spirit comes into contact with a material world . For a long time it was not known whether these writ- ings were the friend or the enemy of the new Christianity ; but after the ...
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