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3002 6 | indeed, and yet are strong in untaught practical wisdom, and which
3003 56| had it not been for their untimely fate. Now either their days
3004 46| through horn, whereas ivory is untransparent. Aristotle, while expressing
3005 46| dreams are in most cases untrue, yet acknowledges that there
3006 51| of the body itself were unusually dry and arid? What, moreover,
3007 31| was such a recluse, and so unwarlike, that he shrank from the
3008 58| even if it is sometimes unwilling to act, it is still the
3009 54| the earth the souls of the unwise, when they affirm that even
3010 24| children, with their fresh, unworn souls, not yet immersed
3011 56| why should you judge to be unworthy of such a resting-place
3012 28| proved himself to have been uphorbus by the evidence of the shield,
3013 2 | to the truth, we feel the urgent necessity of freeing, on
3014 27| It is lust, not natural usage, which has brought shame
3015 39| offering, or seal it for sacred use--in behalf of the clan, of
3016 33| do you teach us, and how usefully do you advise us, that after
3017 33| eminent in, rank and virtue, usefulness, and tender sensibility,--
3018 40| resulting in effects, are usually imputed to the soul: "Whosoever
3019 25| flexible frame for opening the uterus first of all, and keeping
3020 35| existence, until it "pays the utmost farthing," thrust out from
3021 58| as we also interpret "the uttermost farthing" to mean the very
3022 25| power of animation, and utters vocal sound. This view is
3023 5 | V. PROBABLE VIEW OF THE STOICS,
3024 34| XXXIV. THESE VAGARIES STIMULATED SOME PROFANE
3025 56| infernal regions! And how much vainer still is it, if injury be
3026 23| sinful flesh. The hive of Valen-tinus fortifies the soul with
3027 21| predicated of it in "the Valentinian trinity" (that we may still
3028 18| of the Gnostics and the Valentinians? It is from this philosophy
3029 12| universe--the god of Socrates, Valentinus' "only-begotten" of his
3030 2 | sides acknowledge to be valid, and occasionally conformable
3031 56| such shortening is of no validity, if they still may be accomplished
3032 17| perfumes and wines lose their value after we have used them
3033 46| THOUGH GENERALLY MOST HIGHLY VALUED. INSTANCES OF DREAMS.~We
3034 17| prolonged roof, comes to a vanishing point in the direction of
3035 57| circumvent the bystanders, is vanquished by the pressure of divine
3036 27| the breath of God than the vapour of the spirit, whence should
3037 3 | sophist. Whatever noxious vapours, accordingly, exhaled from
3038 20| kind, but their development varies: some open and expand in
3039 53| account of the failure of its vehicle, not of itself--abandoning
3040 53| the passages, such as the veins and the arteries. Inasmuch,
3041 53| abandoned by it. And I will even venture to say, that the last of
3042 17| the question (as to the veracity of those five senses which
3043 44| sun or the moon--I should verily suppose that the occurrence
3044 57| substances. It is true that the verity of Moses swallowed up their
3045 15| accordance, too, with that verse of Orpheus or Empedocles:~"
3046 10| motion; or as worms, by vertical efforts; or as snails and
3047 51| am not ignorant that some vestige of this opinion still exists.
3048 58| be covered first by its vestment of the restored flesh, which,
3049 6 | VI. THE ARGUMENTS OF THE PLATONISTS
3050 32| delicate as well as exquisite viands, feed deliberately on, I
3051 17| struck or shaken, by the vibration actually destroys the appearance
3052 32| fulfil, likings, dislikes, vices, desires, pleasures, maladies,
3053 56| course of life in all its vicissitudes, which has been itself ordained
3054 37| For my own part, I prefer viewing this measure of time in
3055 34| who laboured so much more vigilantly, bravely, and perseveringly,
3056 17| elements, so long as its vigorous glance lasted. As for the (
3057 53| abandoning its work, but not its vigour--languishing in operation,
3058 7 | VII. THE SOUL'S CORPOREALITY
3059 8 | VIII. OTHER PLATONIST ARGUMENTS
3060 34| final disgrace, turned out a viler Helen still as a professional
3061 17| question the truth of the (poor vilified) senses, lest we should
3062 19| by the fact of his birth, vindicating at one and the same time
3063 22| the soul, as well as their vindication and proof; whence it may
3064 50| how, for instance, the vinous quality of the stream intoxicates
3065 41| it there is committed no violation of the nuptial vow!~
3066 33| degraded he to whom, for his virtues, images, statues, and titles
3067 35| debtor to the claims of a virtuous life. This means, that a
3068 8 | some, again, possessing visibility, while others are invisible;
3069 45| no more be condemned for visionary acts of sin, than we shall
3070 57| frequent and lengthened visits to the sepulchres of their
3071 19| whence they also derive vitality--that is, from the one source
3072 46| recorded in the Commentaries of Vitellius. But visions of this prophetic
3073 17| senses to be irrational, and vitiated by our opinions or beliefs.
3074 25| warns us to beware lest a vitiation of seed should infuse a
3075 50| which shall refresh and vivify life, like the vine by the
3076 15| concerning both these questions--viz. that there is a ruling
3077 25| of animation, and utters vocal sound. This view is entertained
3078 58| cogitations and the merest volitions. "Whosoever looketh on a
3079 51| own people, that a body voluntarily made way in a certain cemetery,
3080 33| the senate and the people vote even sacrifices! Oh, what
3081 46| commentators and chroniclers vouch for this phenomenon? There
3082 13| you may also have God's voucher on the subject, it is the
3083 41| violation of the nuptial vow!~
3084 13| two has its perils or its vows and wishes more frequently
3085 44| In order that, since the vulgar belief so readily holds
3086 56| deserve to be consigned W those abodes; if you mean
3087 56| SEPARATED FROM THE BODY HAD TO WAIT FOR ADMISSION INTO HADES
3088 53| cohere to the mass, and are waited for, but never abandoned
3089 19| and even recognises the waiting-maid; refusing the breast of
3090 19| from its avoidance of the wall. It is contented (if it
3091 34| Having during many ages wallowed about in one female shape
3092 44| soul in his sleep, as if it wandered away from his body like
3093 34| for his eulogies. After wandering about in this way from body
3094 47| deceitful, and obscure, and wanton, and impure. And no wonder
3095 27| cursed, in adulteries, and wantonness, and chambering. Well, now,
3096 31| possessed of a military and warlike soul, as is proved by the
3097 46| very boons of remedies, warnings, and forecasts,--the only
3098 30| pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to
3099 21| some of you, but ye are washed." The statements, however,
3100 15| in the case of flies, and wasps, and locusts, when you have
3101 30| once dreary and dangerous wastes; cultivated fields have
3102 28| his health, fraudulently wasting his life, and torturing
3103 46| saying that God, in His most watchful providence over every institution,
3104 43| and how to live, you learn watchfulness, even while you sleep.~
3105 32| which are opposed to fire--water-snakes, lizards, salamanders, and
3106 33| labour of the mill and the water-wheel, when they recollect the
3107 9 | because they are of a pure wavy whiteness. How many things
3108 46| but they blame their own weakness when unable to conjecture
3109 32| which is beset with such weaknesses) mount up at some future
3110 56| and whatever casualties of weal and woe await it in the
3111 33| events must not escape the weapon: retribution for his own
3112 38| between male and female, and wears the fig-tree apron to cover
3113 20| owing to the conditions of weather and soil, and from the appliance
3114 19| over walls with their leafy web and woof rather than creep
3115 41| flesh follows the soul now wedded to the Spirit, as a part
3116 39| Lucina and Diana; for a whole week a table is spread in honour
3117 48| for the space of three weeks. This abstinence, however,
3118 50| He is a comical fellow, I ween. But why (was such a font)
3119 41| good in the soul, being weighed down by the evil, is, owing
3120 6 | dissertations, and after weighing well all the opinions of
3121 8 | are invisible; some being weighty, others light. They are
3122 38| accommodation except in a sound and well-built house. (Now, applying this
3123 2 | has, at this rate, been well-nigh excluded by the philosophers,
3124 25| say not a word of those well-warmed bed-rooms, and all that
3125 34| professional prostitute. This wench, therefore, was the lost
3126 25| regions of the East and the West, and men's minds are sharper;
3127 7 | souls of the patriarchs. But wherefore (all this), if the soul
3128 41| THERE IS YET LEFT A BASIS WHEREON DIVINE GRACE CAN WORK FOR
3129 16| by which He taught, by which--discoursed, by which He
3130 32| For I maintain that, of whichsoever of the before-mentioned
3131 2 | producing conviction is not one whit less; so that the gloomy
3132 9 | they are of a pure wavy whiteness. How many things also besides
3133 3 | philosophy, obscure the clear and wholesome atmosphere of truth, it
3134 1 | who was so soon to be his widow, and at the sight of his
3135 43| of man. God, indeed, has willed (and it may be said in passing
3136 56| surely the soul which had no willingness to die might well prefer
3137 28| who practises deceit to win my belief? How will he convince
3138 53| manner, as if through a window of horn. Undoubtedly, when
3139 17| the selfsame perfumes and wines lose their value after we
3140 33| splendid feathers; Jut then its wings do not make amends for its
3141 48| since summer relaxes, and winter somehow hardens, the soul;
3142 3 | them the maxims of heavenly wisdom--that is, such as are revealed
3143 3 | taste of its huckstering wiseacres and talkers. In like manner
3144 13| its perils or its vows and wishes more frequently on men's
3145 10| have they eyes for seeing withal? But yet they proceed to
3146 43| latter after its recent withdrawal. Meanwhile the soul is circumstanced
3147 38| its rigour when they are withheld, and on their complete removal
3148 49| Sardinia that he used to withhold the power of visions and
3149 25| is not a Sarmatian whose wits are not dull and humdrum.
3150 56| whatever casualties of weal and woe await it in the lapse of
3151 33| rather than by kites and wolves, so that all may see how
3152 57| exhibit "great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were
3153 50| disciples? What was this wondrous bath of Menander? He is
3154 33| victims whom it once slew in woods and lonely roads. Now, if
3155 19| grows and hardens into its woody trunk, until its mature
3156 19| with their leafy web and woof rather than creep on the
3157 32| again, there is softness in wool, and softness in a feather:
3158 23| crawled upon the ground like a worm, because he wanted the strength
3159 43| mortal slumber, that from the wound inflicted on His side might,
3160 5 | injured by bruises, and wounds, and sores: the body, too,
3161 39| the fillets that have been wreathed before the idols, declare
3162 48| right side, nor so as to wrench his intestines, as if their
3163 33| Empedocles? For even the wretches whom they will send into
3164 19| we fail to notice those writers who deprive the soul of
3165 46| that small ring. Ephorus writes to this effect. Again, Heraclides
3166 57| well-known popular bit of writing, which undertakes to summon
3167 10| X. THE SIMPLE NATURE OF THE
3168 43| animal spirit; Anaxagoras and Xenophanes as a weariness of the same;
3169 11| XI. SPIRIT A TERM EXPRESSIVE
3170 12| XII. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE
3171 13| XIII. THE SOUL'S SUPREMACY.~It
3172 14| XIV. THE SOUL VARIOUSLY DIVIDED
3173 19| XIX. THE INTELLECT COEVAL WITH
3174 40| XL. THE BODY OF MAN ONLY ANCILLARY
3175 41| XLI. NOTWITHSTANDING THE DEPRAVITY
3176 42| XLII. SLEEP, THE MIRROR OF DEATH,
3177 43| XLIII. SLEEP A NATURAL FUNCTION
3178 44| XLIV. THE STORY OF HERMOTIMUS,
3179 49| XLIX. NO SOUL NATURALLY EXEMPT
3180 45| XLV. DREAMS, AN INCIDENTAL EFFECT
3181 46| XLVI. DIVERSITY OF DREAMS AND
3182 47| XLVII. DREAMS VARIOUSLY CLASSIFIED.
3183 48| XLVIII. CAUSES AND CIRCUMSTANCES
3184 15| XV. THE SOUL'S VITALITY AND
3185 16| XVI. THE SOUL'S PARTS. ELEMENTS
3186 17| XVII. THE FIDELITY OF THE SENSES,
3187 18| XVIII. PLATO SUGGESTED CERTAIN
3188 20| XX. THE SOUL, AS TO ITS NATURE
3189 21| XXI. AS FREE-WILL ACTUATES AN
3190 22| XXII. RECAPITULATION. DEFINITION
3191 23| XXIII. THE OPINIONS OF SUNDRY
3192 24| XXIV. PLATO'S INCONSISTENCY.
3193 29| XXIX. THE PYTHAGOREAN DOCTRINE
3194 25| XXV. TERTULLIAN REFUTES, PHYSIOLOGICALLY,
3195 26| XXVI. SCRIPTURE ALONE OFFERS
3196 27| XXVII. SOUL AND BODY CONCEIVED,
3197 28| XXVIII. THE PYTHAGOREAN DOCTRINE
3198 30| XXX. FURTHER REFUTATION OF THE
3199 31| XXXI. FURTHER EXPOSURE OF TRANSMIGRATION,
3200 32| XXXII. EMPEDOCLES INCREASED THE
3201 33| XXXIII. THE JUDICIAL RETRIBUTION
3202 34| XXXIV. THESE VAGARIES STIMULATED
3203 39| XXXIX. THE EVIL SPIRIT HAS MARRED
3204 35| XXXV. THE OPINIONS OF CARPOCRATES,
3205 36| XXXVI. THE MAIN POINTS OF OUR
3206 37| XXXVII. ON THE FORMATION AND STATE
3207 38| XXXVIII. ON THE GROWTH OF THE SOUL.
3208 | yes
3209 17| truly parallel fabric of yonder porch or arcade, by supposing
3210 25| another name than <greek>yukh</greek>? How many nations
3211 5 | and a Critolaus, and a Zenocrates, and on this occasion Plato'
3212 15| enclosed in the head; nor with Zenophanes, that it culminates in the
3213 25| broiling sun of the torrid zone, scorching their skin into