Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... King , Senior Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , translated the six " Theosophi- cal Essays " of the Moralia , forming a volume in Bohn's Classical Library . The present volume consists of the twenty - six " Ethical Essays ...
... King , Senior Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , translated the six " Theosophi- cal Essays " of the Moralia , forming a volume in Bohn's Classical Library . The present volume consists of the twenty - six " Ethical Essays ...
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... king Archidamus for venturing to marry a small woman , for they charged him with intending to furnish them not with kings but kinglets . § III . Next must we mention , what was not overlooked even by those who handled this subject ...
... king Archidamus for venturing to marry a small woman , for they charged him with intending to furnish them not with kings but kinglets . § III . Next must we mention , what was not overlooked even by those who handled this subject ...
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... King of Persia , replied , " I do not know his position in regard to virtue and education : for happiness lies in these , and not in adventitious advantages . ' " " § IX . And as I advise parents to think nothing more important than the ...
... King of Persia , replied , " I do not know his position in regard to virtue and education : for happiness lies in these , and not in adventitious advantages . ' " " § IX . And as I advise parents to think nothing more important than the ...
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... king's 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 ...
... king's 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 ...
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... King of the Macedonians , a one - eyed man , into a thundering rage by alluding to his misfortune . For the King sent his chief cook , Eutropio , an important person at his court , to go and fetch Theo- critus before him to confer with ...
... King of the Macedonians , a one - eyed man , into a thundering rage by alluding to his misfortune . For the King sent his chief cook , Eutropio , an important person at his court , to go and fetch Theo- critus before him to confer with ...
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