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The result was [ he writes ] that I , who had at first been full of eagerness to take part in public life , when I saw all this happening and everything going to pieces , fell at last into bewilderment .
The result was [ he writes ] that I , who had at first been full of eagerness to take part in public life , when I saw all this happening and everything going to pieces , fell at last into bewilderment .
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In the same letter Plato writes : a I became acquainted with Dion , then a young man , and without knowing it began to work for the overthrow of a tyranny by telling ...
In the same letter Plato writes : a I became acquainted with Dion , then a young man , and without knowing it began to work for the overthrow of a tyranny by telling ...
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The passions ( writes Mr Santayana ) , in so far as they are impulses to action , entangle us materially in the flux of substance , being intent on seizing , transforming , or destroying something that exists ; but at the same time ...
The passions ( writes Mr Santayana ) , in so far as they are impulses to action , entangle us materially in the flux of substance , being intent on seizing , transforming , or destroying something that exists ; but at the same time ...
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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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