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... poet , and he abandons his search with a passionate outcry in praise of the wise men of pagan times . Who , he asks , did better than they ? Yet All Holy Church holds them in Hell . Whilst Aristotle is lost , the penitent thief was ...
... poet , and he abandons his search with a passionate outcry in praise of the wise men of pagan times . Who , he asks , did better than they ? Yet All Holy Church holds them in Hell . Whilst Aristotle is lost , the penitent thief was ...
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... poet's ' terrible despair ' . Yet , as to ultimate things , few greater optimists than our poet have ever lived . Nothing less than the salvation of all men will satisfy his thirst for souls . Like his contemporary , Juliana of Norwich ...
... poet's ' terrible despair ' . Yet , as to ultimate things , few greater optimists than our poet have ever lived . Nothing less than the salvation of all men will satisfy his thirst for souls . Like his contemporary , Juliana of Norwich ...
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... poet intro- duced his name ' Will ' , and he did this in accordance with a certain convention2 which in the Vision allegories of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was understood to mark the poet's claim to authorship . William ...
... poet intro- duced his name ' Will ' , and he did this in accordance with a certain convention2 which in the Vision allegories of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was understood to mark the poet's claim to authorship . William ...
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By J H Clapham | 19 |
TSARDOM AND IMPERIALISM IN THE FAR EAST and Middle East | 25 |
REASON AND INTUITION Philosophical Lecture By A C Ewing | 67 |
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