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Durandus and Averrhoes taught that form was the internal principle of individuation conferring numerical unity on the subject which it constitutes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Thus the original of Xerxes is Khshayarsha (the revered king), and Averrhoes is Ibn Roshd (son of Roshd).
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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His jokes had a bite in them, as when he said of Bertran that the best proof of the excellence of his verses was that he had undoubtedly made them himself; or of Averrhoes, the Arabian physician and infidel philosopher, that the man equalised his harms by poisoning with his drugs the bodies of those whose minds had been tainted by his heresies.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Averrhoes was often at his court; so were Guillem of
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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More than once, pantheistic doctrine was broached by speculative minds, such as _Avicenna_ and _Averrhoes_.
Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868
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Age, on Avicenna and Averrhoes, as modern innovators, and derived their parentage from certain mythic doctors of Cordova, who, when the Moors were expelled from Spain in the eighth century, fled to Montpellier, bringing with them traditions of that primaeval science which had been revealed to Adam while still in Paradise; and founded Montpellier, the mother of all the universities in Europe.
Historical Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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Aristotle, Averrhoes, Avicenna, and other philosophers, have endeavoured to prove that females have no prolific fluid: for, say they, if they have, why do they not produce without the
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps Richard Joseph Sullivan 1794
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Averrhoes in his first chapter, in the section on the definition of medicine, for this reason among others, I have set out to lay before you the knowledge of the parts of the human body which is derived from anatomy, not attempting to use a lofty style, but the rather that which is suitable to a manual of procedure. "
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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Xerxes is Khshayarsha (the revered king), and Averrhoes is Ibn Roshd (son of
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
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