urn:cts:pdlpsci:bodin.livrep.ta-eng1:40 (line)
urn:cts:pdlpsci:bodin.livrep.ta-eng1:40
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REF: 40
And therefore I suppose thatMarcus Varro,who deemed man his chiefe good to bee mixt, of action and contemplation; might (in mine opinion ) haue more aptly and better said mans life to haue need of both; yet the chiefe good and felicitie thereof to consist in contemplation: which the Academicks called the sweet,and the Hebrews the pretious death; for that it doth in a sort rauish the mind of man from out of this fraile and vile bodie, and carrieth the same vp into heauen.