Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... Montaigne , let us begin to just talk . If you hear , good . If you over - hear , better . If you participate , best of all . The setting for our exchange is ideal : the ferries passing each other at bayhead all day long , carrying ...
... Montaigne , let us begin to just talk . If you hear , good . If you over - hear , better . If you participate , best of all . The setting for our exchange is ideal : the ferries passing each other at bayhead all day long , carrying ...
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... Montaigne was no bravo venturing forth , like Donne with Buckingham , to singe Philip II's beard at Cadiz or in the Azores . ( In fact , Montaigne frankly confessed to less than courage in fleeing Bordeaux during the plague while he was ...
... Montaigne was no bravo venturing forth , like Donne with Buckingham , to singe Philip II's beard at Cadiz or in the Azores . ( In fact , Montaigne frankly confessed to less than courage in fleeing Bordeaux during the plague while he was ...
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... Montaigne , by instinct or by habit . Thank you , Sieur de Montaigne , the fishmonger's son , for the excuse and the excellent example . For this too neat formula is just what I mean to repudiate here by treating the last things first ...
... Montaigne , by instinct or by habit . Thank you , Sieur de Montaigne , the fishmonger's son , for the excuse and the excellent example . For this too neat formula is just what I mean to repudiate here by treating the last things first ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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