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His function is to reunite the sundered parents , Heaven and Earth , in the marriage from which all life , mortal and immortal , is born . So we are told in the parabasis of the Birds : ' Before that there was no race of immortals ...
His function is to reunite the sundered parents , Heaven and Earth , in the marriage from which all life , mortal and immortal , is born . So we are told in the parabasis of the Birds : ' Before that there was no race of immortals ...
Page 100
( s ) Then comes the distinction of the dry land from the sea : ' Earth gave birth to the high hills and to the sea ( Pontos ) with swelling waves . This was not the result of a marriage , but GTEP PIAÓTNTOS Éqiuépou , another act of ...
( s ) Then comes the distinction of the dry land from the sea : ' Earth gave birth to the high hills and to the sea ( Pontos ) with swelling waves . This was not the result of a marriage , but GTEP PIAÓTNTOS Éqiuépou , another act of ...
Page 106
Here is one of many : God is my king of old , working salvation in the midst of the earth . Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength ; thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters . Thou breakest the heads of leviathan in pieces ...
Here is one of many : God is my king of old , working salvation in the midst of the earth . Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength ; thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters . Thou breakest the heads of leviathan in pieces ...
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The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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