Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... beautiful condition of body , coming as she does from the dew and fresh pastures , and when pregnant modestly retires and takes thought for the birth and safety of her offspring . We cannot adequately describe all this , but every ...
... beautiful condition of body , coming as she does from the dew and fresh pastures , and when pregnant modestly retires and takes thought for the birth and safety of her offspring . We cannot adequately describe all this , but every ...
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... beautiful or important plant than the oak , or sacred olive , or the vine which Homer glorifies , 3 seeing that man too has his growth and glorious prime alike of soul and body . " 6 " " § xv . Then said Daphnæus , " In the name of the ...
... beautiful or important plant than the oak , or sacred olive , or the vine which Homer glorifies , 3 seeing that man too has his growth and glorious prime alike of soul and body . " 6 " " § xv . Then said Daphnæus , " In the name of the ...
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... beautiful in the prose- cution of their love - affairs . For there is here nothing of an unpleasant nature , no compulsion of any kind , but persua- sion and grace , truly making toil sweet and labour delight- ful , lead the way to ...
... beautiful in the prose- cution of their love - affairs . For there is here nothing of an unpleasant nature , no compulsion of any kind , but persua- sion and grace , truly making toil sweet and labour delight- ful , lead the way to ...
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... beautiful , and Ares is in our souls from the first to combat against the sordid , to borrow the idea of Plato . Let us consider , then , to begin with , that the venereal delight can be purchased for six obols , and that no one ever ...
... beautiful , and Ares is in our souls from the first to combat against the sordid , to borrow the idea of Plato . Let us consider , then , to begin with , that the venereal delight can be purchased for six obols , and that no one ever ...
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... beautiful Sappho says that when her love appeared her voice failed and her body burned , and she was seized with paleness and trembling and vertigo . ' " And when Daphnæus had repeated the lines , my father resumed , " In the name of ...
... beautiful Sappho says that when her love appeared her voice failed and her body burned , and she was seized with paleness and trembling and vertigo . ' " And when Daphnæus had repeated the lines , my father resumed , " In the name of ...
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