Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... tell you . ' 991 In 1882 the Reverend C. W. 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 ...
... tell you . ' 991 In 1882 the Reverend C. W. 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 ...
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... tell their children any kind of fables , that their souls may not in the very dawn of existence be full of folly or corruption . ' Phocylides the poet also seems to give admirable advice when he says , " We must teach good habits while ...
... tell their children any kind of fables , that their souls may not in the very dawn of existence be full of folly or corruption . ' Phocylides the poet also seems to give admirable advice when he says , " We must teach good habits while ...
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... tell you what happens to such admirable fathers , when they have educated and brought up their sons so badly when the sons grow to man's estate , they disregard a sober and well - ordered life , and rush headlong into disorderly and low ...
... tell you what happens to such admirable fathers , when they have educated and brought up their sons so badly when the sons grow to man's estate , they disregard a sober and well - ordered life , and rush headlong into disorderly and low ...
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... telling me , I should know it was painted quickly ; I only wonder you haven't painted more such in the time . ' As then ( for I now return from my digression ) , I advise to avoid stilted and bombastic language , so again do I urge to ...
... telling me , I should know it was painted quickly ; I only wonder you haven't painted more such in the time . ' As then ( for I now return from my digression ) , I advise to avoid stilted and bombastic language , so again do I urge to ...
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... 10-20 . ? A quotation from Simonides . 3 We are not bound to swallow all the ancients tell us . Credat Judæus Apella ! " Iliad , " xvii . 134-136 . unselfish . And so the bird in Homer , feeding ON LOVE TO ONE'S OFFSPRING . 23.
... 10-20 . ? A quotation from Simonides . 3 We are not bound to swallow all the ancients tell us . Credat Judæus Apella ! " Iliad , " xvii . 134-136 . unselfish . And so the bird in Homer , feeding ON LOVE TO ONE'S OFFSPRING . 23.
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