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If we were sheep of some kind , ” he writes in The City of God , we would ...
Likewise , if we were trees , we could not love by any sensuous tendency ;
nevertheless , there would be a kind of striving for whatever would make us more
abundant ...
If we were sheep of some kind , ” he writes in The City of God , we would ...
Likewise , if we were trees , we could not love by any sensuous tendency ;
nevertheless , there would be a kind of striving for whatever would make us more
abundant ...
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Yet one cannot say that the things this earthly city desires are not good , since it
itself is , of its kind , better than all other human things . For it desires earthly
peace for the sake of enjoying earthly goods , and it makes war in order to attain
this ...
Yet one cannot say that the things this earthly city desires are not good , since it
itself is , of its kind , better than all other human things . For it desires earthly
peace for the sake of enjoying earthly goods , and it makes war in order to attain
this ...
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As , then , there may be life without pain , while there cannot be pain without
some kind of life , so there may peace without war , but there cannot be war
without some kind of peace , because war supposes the existence of some
natures to ...
As , then , there may be life without pain , while there cannot be pain without
some kind of life , so there may peace without war , but there cannot be war
without some kind of peace , because war supposes the existence of some
natures to ...
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THE RISE AND FALL OF NATIONS | 44 |
Gods Governance and Roman | 88 |
SECURING THE PEACE OF BABYLON | 118 |
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The Political Writings of St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine,Dino Bigongiari Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
The Political Writings of St. Augustine Aurelius Augustinus,Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Vista de fragmentos - 1962 |
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| Título | Political Writings Volumen6070 de A Gateway edition |
| Autor | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) |
| Editor | Henry Paolucci |
| Colaborador | Henry Paolucci |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | H. Regnery Company, 1962 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 30 Jun. 2011 |
| Largo | 358 páginas |
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