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... reasons . Over the first twenty - five years , one half of his life - span , records or personal documents are sparse . His fortunes and feelings from childhood on can be glimpsed in certain passages of The Shep- heardes Calender ...
... reasons . Over the first twenty - five years , one half of his life - span , records or personal documents are sparse . His fortunes and feelings from childhood on can be glimpsed in certain passages of The Shep- heardes Calender ...
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... reason , which only he in that region possessed . The soul of man had three powers : vegetable life shared with plants , the life of the senses shared with beasts , and the reasonable soul in which he was akin to the angels above him ...
... reason , which only he in that region possessed . The soul of man had three powers : vegetable life shared with plants , the life of the senses shared with beasts , and the reasonable soul in which he was akin to the angels above him ...
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... reason , the value of self - discipline , the golden mean of moderation . Contact with the works of Plato stimulated thought and affected ways of feeling and behaving in another direction . Renaissance Italy had seen the formation of ...
... reason , the value of self - discipline , the golden mean of moderation . Contact with the works of Plato stimulated thought and affected ways of feeling and behaving in another direction . Renaissance Italy had seen the formation of ...
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