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sharp unemotional person put on suspicion
Her pale eyes glistened, her thin nostrils dilated—Aunt Olivia's whole lean, sharp, unemotional person put on suspicion.
— from Rebecca Mary by Annie Hamilton Donnell

see Universal Passion part of soul
Particular, see Universal Passion, part of soul, 28, 169 Paul, St., influence of Stoicism on, 228; relation of, to Greek philosophy, 244 Pericles, friend of Anaxagoras, 52; and of Protagoras, 86 Peripatetics, origin of name, 174 Personality, absence of, in Greek thought, 40 Persuasion, only true wisdom, 88 Phaedo, quoted from, 54; dialogue, 136 Phaedrus, dialogue, 142 Phenomena, not source of abstract ideas, 15 Philebus, dialogue, 156 Philosophy, different from science, 9; does not forbid inconsistency, 64; a form of poesy or fiction, 66; at the basis of religion, art, and morals, 67; great philosophies never die, 68; first systematically divided by Democritus, 75; relation to politics, 82, 97; paradox of, 100; crisis of, ib.
— from A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. (John) Marshall

surrounded us poor political outcasts so
The wonder is, as my father used to say, that, where so many powerful temptations surrounded us, poor political outcasts, so few proved false."
— from Ralph Wilton's weird by Mrs. Alexander


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