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... contained in this passage ,. and I shall revert to its details later . The point here is that so many things are included simultaneously within this degree " or order , and so strong a sense is given of their inter- connections . The ...
... contained in this passage ,. and I shall revert to its details later . The point here is that so many things are included simultaneously within this degree " or order , and so strong a sense is given of their inter- connections . The ...
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... contained Within this goodly cope , both most and least , Their being have . 14 The conception of order described above must have be common to all Elizabethans of even modest intelligence Hooker's elaborated account must have stated ...
... contained Within this goodly cope , both most and least , Their being have . 14 The conception of order described above must have be common to all Elizabethans of even modest intelligence Hooker's elaborated account must have stated ...
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... contained in himself samples of all the degrees of creation , excelling in this not only beasts but the angels , who were entirely spiritual beings . But it was not only a matter of including in himself these samples : man's very ...
... contained in himself samples of all the degrees of creation , excelling in this not only beasts but the angels , who were entirely spiritual beings . But it was not only a matter of including in himself these samples : man's very ...
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age of Elizabeth angels animals Aristotle Arthur Lovejoy beasts beauty belief bethan body politic Boethius celestial chain chaos commonplace correspondence cosmic created creation creatures dance Davies of Hereford degree disorder divine doctrine Donne doth E. K. Chambers earth Eliza Elizabethan age Elizabethan literature eternal ether faculties fall fire four elements four humours glory God's Hakewill harmony hath heaven heavenly hierarchies highest Hooker human humours idea John Norden kind king light living lowest Macrocosm and Microcosm man's medieval microcosm Middle Ages Milton mind moon mutability nature Nemesius Noble Kinsmen notion orthodox passage passion perfect plants Platonic poem poetical poetry primum mobile prince Queen Raleigh reason references resembled Romei Sebonde sense Shakespeare soul speech Spenser spheres spirits stars sublunary Theodore Spencer theological things thou thought tion Troilus and Cressida Ulysses's understanding universe unto virtue whole world picture