Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... , let such a one know that he is very wide of the mark , if not out of it altogether . For good natural parts are impaired by sloth ; while inferior ability is 1 : mended by training and while simple things escape PLUTARCH'S MORALS .
... , let such a one know that he is very wide of the mark , if not out of it altogether . For good natural parts are impaired by sloth ; while inferior ability is 1 : mended by training and while simple things escape PLUTARCH'S MORALS .
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... altogether strange that you accustom your son to take his food in his right hand , and chide him if he " " 1 1 Plato , " Clitophon , " p . 255 , D. 2 Compare Diogenes Laertius , ii . 72 . 2 : offers his left , whereas you care very ...
... altogether strange that you accustom your son to take his food in his right hand , and chide him if he " " 1 1 Plato , " Clitophon , " p . 255 , D. 2 Compare Diogenes Laertius , ii . 72 . 2 : offers his left , whereas you care very ...
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... altogether reject extempore oratory , or its use in critical cases , but it should be used only as one would take medicine . Up , indeed , to man's estate I would have no extempore speak- ing , but when anyone's powers of speech are ...
... altogether reject extempore oratory , or its use in critical cases , but it should be used only as one would take medicine . Up , indeed , to man's estate I would have no extempore speak- ing , but when anyone's powers of speech are ...
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... altogether . An accursed tribe , feigning friendship , knowing nothing of real freedom , flatterers of the rich , despisers of the poor , drawn to young men by a sort of natural logic , 2 showing their teeth and grinning all over when ...
... altogether . An accursed tribe , feigning friendship , knowing nothing of real freedom , flatterers of the rich , despisers of the poor , drawn to young men by a sort of natural logic , 2 showing their teeth and grinning all over when ...
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... altogether a foul and unlovely favour . And so I think Solon wrote the lines quoted above ' in his hot youth , ' as Plato puts it ; but when he became older wrote these other lines , ' Now I delight in Cyprus- born Aphrodite , and in ...
... altogether a foul and unlovely favour . And so I think Solon wrote the lines quoted above ' in his hot youth , ' as Plato puts it ; but when he became older wrote these other lines , ' Now I delight in Cyprus- born Aphrodite , and in ...
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