The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius AntoninusG. Bell, 1901 - 216 pages |
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... humanity by his treatment of the family and the partizans of Cassius , and his letter to the senate in which he recommends mercy is extant . ( Vulcatius , Avidius Cassius , c . 12. ) Antoninus set out for the east on hearing of Cassirs ...
... humanity by his treatment of the family and the partizans of Cassius , and his letter to the senate in which he recommends mercy is extant . ( Vulcatius , Avidius Cassius , c . 12. ) Antoninus set out for the east on hearing of Cassirs ...
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... human form , but on being put to the rack he recovered his former appearance under the torture , which was thus a cure instead of a punish- ment . He was afterwards torn by beasts , and placed on an iron chair and roasted . He died at ...
... human form , but on being put to the rack he recovered his former appearance under the torture , which was thus a cure instead of a punish- ment . He was afterwards torn by beasts , and placed on an iron chair and roasted . He died at ...
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... human existence . Fine thoughts and moral dissertations from men who have not worked and suffered may be read , but they will be forgotten . No religion , no Ethical philosophy is worth anything , if the teacher has not lived the “ life ...
... human existence . Fine thoughts and moral dissertations from men who have not worked and suffered may be read , but they will be forgotten . No religion , no Ethical philosophy is worth anything , if the teacher has not lived the “ life ...
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... human soul is in a sense a portion of the divinity , and the soul alone has any communication with the deity , for as he says ( XII . 2 ) : " With his intellectual part alone God touches the intelligence only which has flowed and been ...
... human soul is in a sense a portion of the divinity , and the soul alone has any communication with the deity , for as he says ( XII . 2 ) : " With his intellectual part alone God touches the intelligence only which has flowed and been ...
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... human nature , he is seen by his very works . " Other passages to the same purpose are quoted by Gataker ( p . 382 ) . Bishop Butler has the same as to the soul : " Upon the whole then our organs of sense and our limbs are certainly ...
... human nature , he is seen by his very works . " Other passages to the same purpose are quoted by Gataker ( p . 382 ) . Bishop Butler has the same as to the soul : " Upon the whole then our organs of sense and our limbs are certainly ...
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2nd Edition according to nature Antoninus Pius Apology art thou Avidius Cassius body Christians Commodus conformable consider constitution death deity Dion Cassius divinity dost thou Edited by Temple emperor English Engravings Epictetus Eusebius evil exist G. A. Aitken Gataker give gods Greek Hadrian happens to thee harm Heraclitus History Illustrations intelligence Julius Cæsar justice Justinus kind let thy letter look manner matter meaning Melitene notion observe opinion Orosius pain passage philosophy Plato pleasure Portraits praise principles Quadi rational animal reason religion Rescript Roman ruling faculty says shavings and cuttings social Socrates soul speaks Stoic substance Temple Scott things thou art thou didst thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou shouldst thou wilt thou wish thy mind thy power thyself tion Trajan Trans Translated truth universal nature Verus virtue whole wickedness William Hazlitt Woodcuts word wouldst wrong Zeus
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