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... manner , is what is so astonishing to us when we examine God's Nature ; and the more we do so , the more wonderful that Nature appears to us . And the mode of God's existence is essential energy , and as such is a life that is most ...
... manner , is what is so astonishing to us when we examine God's Nature ; and the more we do so , the more wonderful that Nature appears to us . And the mode of God's existence is essential energy , and as such is a life that is most ...
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... manner concerning Nature ; for these philosophers con- stituted both Oceanus and Tethys as the parents of gene- ration , and water as the object of adjuration amongst the gods , called Styx by the poets themselves ; for most entitled to ...
... manner concerning Nature ; for these philosophers con- stituted both Oceanus and Tethys as the parents of gene- ration , and water as the object of adjuration amongst the gods , called Styx by the poets themselves ; for most entitled to ...
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... manner these also affirm that dif- ferences are causes of the other things . They , indeed , say that these are three , even figure , and order , and position ; for they affirm that entity differs merely in rhythm , and diathege , and ...
... manner these also affirm that dif- ferences are causes of the other things . They , indeed , say that these are three , even figure , and order , and position ; for they affirm that entity differs merely in rhythm , and diathege , and ...
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... manner they fall in with the causes just enumerated . Undoubtedly do these appear to consider number to be a first principle , and , as it were , a material cause of entities , and as both their passive conditions and habits , and that ...
... manner they fall in with the causes just enumerated . Undoubtedly do these appear to consider number to be a first principle , and , as it were , a material cause of entities , and as both their passive conditions and habits , and that ...
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... manner , either in regard of that which is constituted in an orderly way , or of that which is in accordance with the course of Nature . With , indeed , then , the present investigation of causes does . this theory regarding them by no ...
... manner , either in regard of that which is constituted in an orderly way , or of that which is in accordance with the course of Nature . With , indeed , then , the present investigation of causes does . this theory regarding them by no ...
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