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At length they came to the strange dogmas of the stoics, called their Paradoxes; and to this in particular, That the good man only is free, and that all wicked men are slaves.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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"Paradoxes", a collection of practical sentences, useful to a moral life, familiar to Christians but new to the Chinese, which Ricci developed with accounts of examples, comparisons, and extracts from the Scriptures and from Christian philosophers and doctors.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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From that date till 1864 the "Paradoxes" were printed as Bacon's, and, though suspected by some, yet often written about as Bacon's; but in the last-mentioned year the mistake was rectified, and Herbert Palmer reinstated in the authorship of the
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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The blunder was probably then detected; but it was again committed in 1730, when the "Paradoxes" were included in Blackburn's
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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'Paradoxes' by Meqdad al Kout explores the issue of social deformity.
AME Info Latest News 2008
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The first day of every month, college students from the North Idaho College (NIC), the University of Idaho (U of I), and Lewis and Clark State College (LCSC) pipi's kitchen: literacy Paradoxes
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In a section titled “Paradoxes,” the manual made a number of recommendations that were hardly typical of prevailing U.S. military doctrine: “Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction” and drawing on T. E. Lawrence “the host nation doing something tolerably is normally better than us doing it well.”
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Paradoxes threatened to suffocate every initiative.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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It is a term known primarily by teachers and educators and probably had its genesis in the creative activities of many teachers who … pipi's kitchen: literacy Paradoxes
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Two centuries after the invention … pipi's kitchen: literacy Paradoxes
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