Evenings with the Skeptics: Or, Free Discussion on Free Thinkers, Том 1

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1881

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Страница 249 - What is this strange outcry? he said. I sent away the women mainly in order that they might not offend in this way, for I have heard that a man should die in peace. Be quiet then, and have patience.
Страница 400 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Страница 431 - Five of these are of universal obligation — viz., not to kill; not to steal; not to commit adultery; not to lie; not to be drunken.
Страница 249 - What do you say about making a libation out of this cup to any god? May I, or not ? The man answered: We only prepare, Socrates, just so much as we deem enough.
Страница 248 - I and my sons will have received justice at your hands. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better, God only knows.
Страница 250 - Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? The debt shall be paid, said Crito; is there anything else? There was no answer to this question; but in a minute or two a movement was heard, and the attendants uncovered him; his eyes were set, and Crito closed his eyes and mouth. Such was the end...
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