The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... soul to live as long as the body continued undissolved , and therefore tried this method of eluding death . " " Could the wise Egyptians , said Nekayah , think so grosly of the soul ? If the soul could once sur- vive its separation ...
... soul to live as long as the body continued undissolved , and therefore tried this method of eluding death . " " Could the wise Egyptians , said Nekayah , think so grosly of the soul ? If the soul could once sur- vive its separation ...
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... soul Of patriots and of heroes . But , if doomed In powerless humble fortune to repress These ardent risings of the kindling soul , Then , even superior to ambition , we Would learn the private virtues - how to glide Through shades and ...
... soul Of patriots and of heroes . But , if doomed In powerless humble fortune to repress These ardent risings of the kindling soul , Then , even superior to ambition , we Would learn the private virtues - how to glide Through shades and ...
Page 538
... souls that doth not perceive itself always to contemplate ideas ; nor can conceive it any more necessary for the soul always to think , than for the body always to move ; the perception of ideas being , as I conceive , to the soul ...
... souls that doth not perceive itself always to contemplate ideas ; nor can conceive it any more necessary for the soul always to think , than for the body always to move ; the perception of ideas being , as I conceive , to the soul ...
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