Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... talk . A wretched painter once showed Apelles , they say , a picture , and said , " I have just done it . " Apelles replied , “ With- out your telling me , I should know it was painted quickly ; I only wonder you haven't painted more ...
... talk . A wretched painter once showed Apelles , they say , a picture , and said , " I have just done it . " Apelles replied , “ With- out your telling me , I should know it was painted quickly ; I only wonder you haven't painted more ...
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... talk- ing , and one of them is in a passion , he is the wiser who first gives way . " 994 I will next state something quite as important , in- deed , if anything , even more important . That is , that life must be spent without luxury ...
... talk- ing , and one of them is in a passion , he is the wiser who first gives way . " 994 I will next state something quite as important , in- deed , if anything , even more important . That is , that life must be spent without luxury ...
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... talk about ivy and yews , and all other commonplaces of that kind that writers love to introduce , with more zeal than discretion , in imita- tion of Plato's Ilissus and the famous willow and the gentle slope of grass.1 Autobulus . - My ...
... talk about ivy and yews , and all other commonplaces of that kind that writers love to introduce , with more zeal than discretion , in imita- tion of Plato's Ilissus and the famous willow and the gentle slope of grass.1 Autobulus . - My ...
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... talk- ing to him she had got rather smitten with him herself . And hearing much in his favour , and often talking about him , and seeing that many noble young men were in love with him , she fell violently in love with him , and , being ...
... talk- ing to him she had got rather smitten with him herself . And hearing much in his favour , and often talking about him , and seeing that many noble young men were in love with him , she fell violently in love with him , and , being ...
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... talk about the sports , but everyone left the theatre for the neighbour- hood of Ismenodora's house , and there stood in groups talking and disputing about what had happened . § XI . Now when Pisias ' friend had come up like an aide- de ...
... talk about the sports , but everyone left the theatre for the neighbour- hood of Ismenodora's house , and there stood in groups talking and disputing about what had happened . § XI . Now when Pisias ' friend had come up like an aide- de ...
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