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  • Further note, that will (thelesis) and wish (boulesis) are two different things: also the object of will (to theleton) and the capacity for will (theletikon), and the subject that exercises will (ho thelon), are all different.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • In an old poem, which begins with "Mac-Ar - cath nan c? ud frol," this cnttom of retiring from the arm, b-icre an en;; is numhjreti an. ong the .vi: e inltitution ot "Ferp;,. thelon of Arc or Arcath, the r.

    The poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal. 1796

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