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... by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For non... ...on. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corrections to the Publisher, rbear [at]uoregon.edu. CONTENTS THE FIRST BOOKE Florio's ... ...ged in Plato, 'Follow thy businesse and know thy selfe;' Each of these two members, doth generally imply all our duty; and likewise enfolds his compa... ...itie: which assured promise when he had obtained, and had at his pleasure marshalled the order how they should march, he seemed quietly and contente... ... to take a new course. Yet is it, that at the last enterview which was at Marseilles betweens Pope Clement the seventh, and Francis the first, our K... ...Plato doth in some sort ascribe the naturall constitution of the intermall members of them, of the scraping of chickens, of the flight of birds, Aves... ...ay a wager, I will finde more that have died before they came to five and thirty years, than after. It is consonant with reason and pietie, to take ... ...eth, since it is unavoidable? Socrates answered one that told him, 'The thirty tyrants have condemned thee to death.' 'And Nature them,' said he. W... ...this fashion into our single combates, to accompany us in the fields with seconds, thirdes, and fourths. They were anciently single combates, but no...

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...right January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms an... ...nd in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, an... ...fetime of nights sleeping together as a single band with the smallest-weakest members in the center was corrupted. The entire concept of living-for... ...at and kills you. By separating your carotid artery so you bleed to death in seconds… That is horrible That is not logical Not only is it not... ... a long time. But with the end of the ice age and an overabundance of food in marshlands and wetlands, where they did not need to keep moving to eat:... ... that you can chop up pieces of Time into absolutely separated segments called seconds is so stupid, so illogical, so absurd: it is even stupider tha... ...ney as fast and as uselessly as possible. Would you be willing to study for thirty years just so you could manage to recite the alphabet? That is ... ...an unwanted baby, or child? I mean… it’s normal! Maybe it wasn’t so normal thirty years ago… but it’s getting more normal now. Which shows you h... ...erything else. Why do you think all of the first civilizations emerged from marshlands, and wetlands? Because those were the few areas where huma...

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