The Works of Philo Judaeus, the Contemporary of Josephus, Vol. 4 of 4 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

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9781451003307: The Works of Philo Judaeus, the Contemporary of Josephus, Vol. 4 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

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A TREATISE ON A CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE, ON THE VIRTUES OF SUPPLIANTS. I. Having mentioned the Essencs, who in all respects selected for their admiration and for their especial adoption tho practical course of life, and who excel in all, or what perhaps may be a less unpopular and invidious thing to say, in most of its pans, 7 will now proceed, in the regular order of my subject, to speak of those who have embraced the speculative life, and I will say what appears to me to be desirable to be said on the subject, not drawing any fictitious statements from my own head for the sake of improving the appearance of that side of the question which nearly all poets and essayists are much accustomed to do in the scarcity of good actions to extol, but with the greatest simplicity adhering strictly to tho truth itself, to which I know well that even the most eloquent men do not keep close in their speeches. Nevertheless we must make the endeavour and labour to attain to this virtue ; for it is not

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Paq?; On a Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants ]; On the Incorruptibility of the AVorld2]; Against Flaccus6]; On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors; Addressed to Caius9£; Concerning the "World18(; The Fragments of the Lost Works21C; Fragments extracted from the Parallels of John of Damascus 242; Fragments from a Monkish Manuscript257; Fragments preserved by Antonius271; Fragments from an Anonymous Collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford276; Fragments from an Unpublished Manuscript in the; Library of the French King277; A Volume of Questions, and Solutions to those Questions, which arise in Genesis284; Index to the Four Volumes 465

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A TREATISE ON A CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE, ON THE VIRTUES OF SUPPLIANTS. I. Having mentioned the Essencs, who in all respects selected for their admiration and for their especial adoption tho practical course of life, and who excel in all, or what perhaps may be a less unpopular and invidious thing to say, in most of its pans, 7 will now proceed, in the regular order of my subject, to speak of those who have embraced the speculative life, and I will say what appears to me to be desirable to be said on the subject, not drawing any fictitious statements from my own head for the sake of improving the appearance of that side of the question which nearly all poets and essayists are much accustomed to do in the scarcity of good actions to extol, but with the greatest simplicity adhering strictly to tho truth itself, to which I know well that even the most eloquent men do not keep close in their speeches. Nevertheless we must make the endeavour and labour to attain to this virtue ; for it is not

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Paq?; On a Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants ]; On the Incorruptibility of the AVorld2]; Against Flaccus6]; On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors; Addressed to Caius9£; Concerning the "World18(; The Fragments of the Lost Works21C; Fragments extracted from the Parallels of John of Damascus 242; Fragments from a Monkish Manuscript257; Fragments preserved by Antonius271; Fragments from an Anonymous Collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford276; Fragments from an Unpublished Manuscript in the; Library of the French King277; A Volume of Questions, and Solutions to those Questions, which arise in Genesis284; Index to the Four Volumes 465

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9780260402004: The Works of Philo Judæus, Vol. 4: The Contemporary of Josephus, Translated From the Greek (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10 :  0260402001 ISBN 13 :  9780260402004
Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018
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