Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... rich ? " It is easy enough to meet such critics . I should prefer to make my teaching general and suitable to all ; but if any , through their poverty , shall be unable to follow up my precepts , let them blame fortune , and not the ...
... rich ? " It is easy enough to meet such critics . I should prefer to make my teaching general and suitable to all ; but if any , through their poverty , shall be unable to follow up my precepts , let them blame fortune , and not the ...
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... rich are by their fathers urged to be sober , but by them to be drunk ; by their fathers to be chaste , by them to ... rich , despisers of the poor , drawn to young men by a sort of natural logic , 2 showing their teeth and grinning all ...
... rich are by their fathers urged to be sober , but by them to be drunk ; by their fathers to be chaste , by them to ... rich , despisers of the poor , drawn to young men by a sort of natural logic , 2 showing their teeth and grinning all ...
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... rich , when they have sons , sacrifice and rejoice that they will have people to take care of them and to bury them ; unless indeed they bring up sons from want of heirs ; as if one could not find or fall in with anyone who would be ...
... rich , when they have sons , sacrifice and rejoice that they will have people to take care of them and to bury them ; unless indeed they bring up sons from want of heirs ; as if one could not find or fall in with anyone who would be ...
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... rich entertain to dinner , those great men pay court to , to those alone orators give their services gratis . A mighty personage is a rich man , whose heir is unknown . " It has at any rate made many much loved and honoured , whom the ...
... rich entertain to dinner , those great men pay court to , to those alone orators give their services gratis . A mighty personage is a rich man , whose heir is unknown . " It has at any rate made many much loved and honoured , whom the ...
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... rich ? What then , if she is young and handsome ? And what if she plumes herself somewhat on the lustre of her race ? Have not chaste women often something of the morose and peevish in their character almost past bearing ? Do they not ...
... rich ? What then , if she is young and handsome ? And what if she plumes herself somewhat on the lustre of her race ? Have not chaste women often something of the morose and peevish in their character almost past bearing ? Do they not ...
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