Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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Page 126
... history , let nothing escape you of what is said to the point , which is likely either to correct the character or to calm the passions . For as Simonides says the bee hovers among the flowers " making the yellow honey , " 1 while ...
... history , let nothing escape you of what is said to the point , which is likely either to correct the character or to calm the passions . For as Simonides says the bee hovers among the flowers " making the yellow honey , " 1 while ...
Page 174
... history , but not one of them all objected to his cruelty and outrages , his torturing and beating people to death . ' Just as if , when a man has tumours and fistulas , one were to cut his hair and nails with a surgeon's knife , so ...
... history , but not one of them all objected to his cruelty and outrages , his torturing and beating people to death . ' Just as if , when a man has tumours and fistulas , one were to cut his hair and nails with a surgeon's knife , so ...
Page 238
... history of evils , you have copious material at home , " as much as there is water in the Alizon , or leaves on the oak , ” such a quantity of faults will you find in your own life , and passions in your soul , 1 Jeremy Taylor has ...
... history of evils , you have copious material at home , " as much as there is water in the Alizon , or leaves on the oak , ” such a quantity of faults will you find in your own life , and passions in your soul , 1 Jeremy Taylor has ...
Page 318
... history testifies . Thus the Thebans , when their generals were charged with not returning home , and laying down their office of Boeotarchs when their time had expired , but instead of that making inroads into Laconia , and helping ...
... history testifies . Thus the Thebans , when their generals were charged with not returning home , and laying down their office of Boeotarchs when their time had expired , but instead of that making inroads into Laconia , and helping ...
Page 388
... history of Herodotus of Halicarnassus into " Herodotus of Thurii . " For he migrated to Thurii , and participated in that colony . As to the divine and sacred spirit of the Muses , the poet of the Trojan war , Homer , did not many ...
... history of Herodotus of Halicarnassus into " Herodotus of Thurii . " For he migrated to Thurii , and participated in that colony . As to the divine and sacred spirit of the Muses , the poet of the Trojan war , Homer , did not many ...
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