Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 48
... body . A majority of writers , however , imagined one soul with different functions . Always it maintained contact with the body ( willingly or not ) by means of " spirits , " airy vapors which shared in both physical and divine ...
... body . A majority of writers , however , imagined one soul with different functions . Always it maintained contact with the body ( willingly or not ) by means of " spirits , " airy vapors which shared in both physical and divine ...
Page 49
... body by withdrawing into itself within the body , a state which might be induced by sleep or solitude . " This separa- tion of the Soul , " writes Kristeller , " which is by no means a mere metaphor , is conceived in its highest ...
... body by withdrawing into itself within the body , a state which might be induced by sleep or solitude . " This separa- tion of the Soul , " writes Kristeller , " which is by no means a mere metaphor , is conceived in its highest ...
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... body defined as corporeal , body could be imagined to operate independently of soul , and even to cause emotion for which there was no origin in the mind . Soul and body , Descartes reasoned , are two separate and distinct substances ...
... body defined as corporeal , body could be imagined to operate independently of soul , and even to cause emotion for which there was no origin in the mind . Soul and body , Descartes reasoned , are two separate and distinct substances ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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