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... When a man is dead , ' says the shade of Anticlea , ' the flesh and the bones are left to be consumed by the flames , but the soul passes away like a dream . ' We cannot attempt here to enter minutely into this vast subject of Greek ...
... When a man is dead , ' says the shade of Anticlea , ' the flesh and the bones are left to be consumed by the flames , but the soul passes away like a dream . ' We cannot attempt here to enter minutely into this vast subject of Greek ...
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