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... known because Aquinas and Dante accepted it . Dionysius taught that the angels are arranged in a definitive order according to their natural capa- city to receive the undivided divine essence . Knowing them- selves and being without sin ...
... known because Aquinas and Dante accepted it . Dionysius taught that the angels are arranged in a definitive order according to their natural capa- city to receive the undivided divine essence . Knowing them- selves and being without sin ...
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... known Mon- taigne's subversive conjecture about man and cat : has not the cat as good a right to think that it is playing with the man , as the other way round ? But they would not have allowed it , any more than they allowed Copernicus ...
... known Mon- taigne's subversive conjecture about man and cat : has not the cat as good a right to think that it is playing with the man , as the other way round ? But they would not have allowed it , any more than they allowed Copernicus ...
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... known instance of this correspondence is in Julius Caesar , when Brutus , greatly perplexed , says Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion , all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream . The genius and the ...
... known instance of this correspondence is in Julius Caesar , when Brutus , greatly perplexed , says Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion , all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream . The genius and the ...
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