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1.
The Universe of Creatures
Contributors:
Publisher:
Marquette University Press 1998
Subjects:
Philosophy, Medieval
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...to the creator, but are shared with creatures and are truly shared,but according...such nominationswith all or with some creatures. Such are a being and being, powerful...wise and wisdom, good and goodness, beautiful and beauty, and oneslike these which...
2.
A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism
Contributors:
Publisher:
Stanford University Press 2010
Subjects:
Laevinas, Emmanuel--Ethics
Ethics, Modern
Judaism--Philosophy
Philosophy, French--20th Century
Philosophy
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...for figuringethics as the intrigue of beautiful souls whose claim to render themselvesentirely...are al­ways constellations of creatures, Levinas risks attenuating the covenant...but also cooperate with other ethical creatures. This problem corresponds to the difficulty...
3.
The Auk, the Dodo, and the Oryx: Vanished and Vanishing Creatures
Contributors:
Publisher:
Thomas Y. Crowell 1967
Subjects:
Rare Animals
Extinct Animals
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mammals and many beautiful birds were wiped out. Itwas during...between1901 and 1944. Some were obscure creatures whose pas­sing went unnoticed...We havebeen poor custodians of the creatures with whom weshould have shared our...
4.
Creatures That Once Were Men
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Publisher:
Boni and Liveright 1918
Subjects:
Fiction
Short stories, Russian--Translations into English
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CREATURES THAT ONCEWERE MENPART IIN front of you is the main street, with two rows...On the top of the mountain, amonggreen gardens with dense foliage, beautiful stone houseslie hidden; the belfries of the churches rise proudlytoward...
5.
A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of California Press 2002
Subjects:
Mythology, Chinese
China--Description And Travel
Folklore--China
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...human rather than as a hybrid, sometimes with someof the creatures mentioned in the Guideways. In a further phase of development...refinement in religious Daoism, becoming by the Tang dynastya beautiful goddess dispensing peaches of immortality to various humanized...
6.
On the Government of God: A Treatise Wherein Are Shown by Argument and by Examples Drawn from the Abandoned Society of the Times the Ways of God toward His Creatures
Contributors:
Publisher:
Columbia University Press 1930
Subjects:
Providence And Government Of God
Christianity
Christian Life--Early Church, Ca. 30-600
Rome--Social Conditions
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...numerous biblical quotations presentssome difficulty. It is, of course, natural and almost inevitable to usethe familiar and beautiful text of the King James Version, and ingeneral I have done this, even in some cases where Salvian's word­ing might...
7.
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of California Press 1960
Subjects:
Aesthetics
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...stimulates in others is fickle but beautiful,whereas the feeling of the...is too bad that this sort of beautiful creatures easilyfall into the fault of...through the consciousnessof the beautiful figure their mirror shows them...
8.
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1990
Subjects:
Aesthetics--Early Works To 1800
Sublime, The--Early Works To 1800
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...Addisonwrote: 'He has made everything that is beautiful in our ownspecies pleasant, that all Creatures might be tempted tomultiply their Kind...Likeness, and offounding a new Order of Creatures; so that unless all Animalswere allured...
9.
The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century
Contributors:
Publisher:
Cornell University Press 1995
Subjects:
Soul
Ethics, Modern--18th Century
Aesthetics, Modern--18th Century
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...ladder of living and animate creatures, and they connect the worldof...theheart," and "what is more beautiful than a virtuous human being...with base, sense-bound creatures barely distinguishable from...005D, a fine feeling for the beautiful, and nobleinclinations toward...
10.
Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good
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Publisher:
D. Appleton 1854
Subjects:
Truth
Art, French
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...answer, still less a single one of its creatures, how­ever charming. All mortal...00ADtion. In fact, the sentiment of the beautiful may be awakenedin each one of us before any beautiful object; but, when thisobject has disappeared...
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