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I say the stars , although in the only commentary I could lay hands on , I read , with a shock , that Lorenzo , when he spoke of patines of bright gold inlaid in the floor of heaven , ' was probably referring to the small broken clouds ...
I say the stars , although in the only commentary I could lay hands on , I read , with a shock , that Lorenzo , when he spoke of patines of bright gold inlaid in the floor of heaven , ' was probably referring to the small broken clouds ...
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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 ...
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Frazer writes : The Babylonian myth relates how in the beginning the mighty god Marduk fought and killed the great dragon Tiamat , an ernbodiment of the primaeval watery chaos , and how after his victory he created the present heaven ...
Frazer writes : The Babylonian myth relates how in the beginning the mighty god Marduk fought and killed the great dragon Tiamat , an ernbodiment of the primaeval watery chaos , and how after his victory he created the present heaven ...
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Contents
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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