Identification: Listed below are three short passages drawn from the assigned re

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Identification: Listed below are three short passages drawn from the assigned readings. For each passage identify the title of the work, the author's name (if known), the speaker of the lines (if known), the person(s) to whom the speaker is speaking (if known), the context in which the passage appears, and the meaning or significance of the quote. "About us now in the depth of the pit we found/ a painted people, weary and defeated./Slowly, in pain, they paced it round and round/All wore cloaks cut to as ample a size as those worn by the Benedictines of Cluny. /The enormous hoods were drawn over their eyes./ The outside is all dazzle, golden and fair;/ the inside, lead, so heavy that Frederick's capes, compared to these, would seem as light as ait." 3.

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1). "When we inquire what manner of life must be held in order to obtain happiness- it is not te body to which the precepts are addressed, it is not bodily discipline which we discuss."

Title of the Work: Of the Morals of the Catholic Church By Saint Augustine

Chapter 5.— Man's Chief Good is Not the Chief Good of the Body Only, But the Chief Good of the Soul

Speaker: St. Augustine of Hippo in A.D. 388.

This quote is used while explaining the existence and importance of soul in the human body. The quote is indicating that the happiness and other means of pleasures are not addressed or perceived by the body, it is the soul that admit all these and soul is the chief good of the body.

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