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... universe was not settled , but on one notion there was an intermediate space containing lesser heavens . To what use it was put I will return when I speak in detail of the angels . Opinion varied on the precise constitution of the ...
... universe was not settled , but on one notion there was an intermediate space containing lesser heavens . To what use it was put I will return when I speak in detail of the angels . Opinion varied on the precise constitution of the ...
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... universe , the repository of its grossest dregs . As a Frenchman of the time of Francis I expressed it , the earth is so depraved and broken in all kind of vices and abominations that it seemeth to be a place that hath received all the ...
... universe , the repository of its grossest dregs . As a Frenchman of the time of Francis I expressed it , the earth is so depraved and broken in all kind of vices and abominations that it seemeth to be a place that hath received all the ...
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... universe . For in the universe there are gods , the four elements , the dumb beasts , and the plants . Of all these man possesses the faculties : for he possesses the godlike faculty of reason ; and the nature of the elements , which ...
... universe . For in the universe there are gods , the four elements , the dumb beasts , and the plants . Of all these man possesses the faculties : for he possesses the godlike faculty of reason ; and the nature of the elements , which ...
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