Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... eyes of the careless , difficult things are reached by pains- taking . The wonderful efficacy and power of long and continuous labour you may see indeed every day in the world around you.1 you . Thus water continually dropping wears ...
... eyes of the careless , difficult things are reached by pains- taking . The wonderful efficacy and power of long and continuous labour you may see indeed every day in the world around you.1 you . Thus water continually dropping wears ...
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... eye . § x . Next our freeborn lad ought to go in for a course of what is called general knowledge , but a smattering of this will be sufficient , a taste as it were ( for perfect know- ledge of all subjects would be impossible ) ; but ...
... eye . § x . Next our freeborn lad ought to go in for a course of what is called general knowledge , but a smattering of this will be sufficient , a taste as it were ( for perfect know- ledge of all subjects would be impossible ) ; but ...
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... eye . ' And especial attention , in my opinion , must be paid to cultivat- ing and exercising the memory of boys , for memory is , as it were , the storehouse of learning ; and that was why they fabled Mnemosyne to be the mother of the ...
... eye . ' And especial attention , in my opinion , must be paid to cultivat- ing and exercising the memory of boys , for memory is , as it were , the storehouse of learning ; and that was why they fabled Mnemosyne to be the mother of the ...
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... eyes , ' " does it not intend to bargain with the hunters for its whelps ? For universally the love of animals for their offspring makes timid ones bold , and lazy ones energetic , and greedy ones 1 Compare Lucretius , i . 10-20 . ? A ...
... eyes , ' " does it not intend to bargain with the hunters for its whelps ? For universally the love of animals for their offspring makes timid ones bold , and lazy ones energetic , and greedy ones 1 Compare Lucretius , i . 10-20 . ? A ...
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... eyes ? And did not Hegesias by his speeches make many of his hearers to commit suicide ? 1 Fatality has many different aspects . " But all these are diseases and maladies of the soul driving a man contrary to nature out of his wits as ...
... eyes ? And did not Hegesias by his speeches make many of his hearers to commit suicide ? 1 Fatality has many different aspects . " But all these are diseases and maladies of the soul driving a man contrary to nature out of his wits as ...
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