King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethins De Consolatione Philosophiæ: With a Literal English Translation, Notes, and GlossaryH. G. Bohn, 1864 - 398 pages |
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... wealth could make a man so rich that he should not need more : and whether to Boethius , all his condition were agreeable , when he was most prosperous . XXVII . p . 91 . How dignity may do two things to the unwise , who is honoured by ...
... wealth could make a man so rich that he should not need more : and whether to Boethius , all his condition were agreeable , when he was most prosperous . XXVII . p . 91 . How dignity may do two things to the unwise , who is honoured by ...
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... wealthy and powerful : and how other friends come with wealth , and again with wealth depart . XXX . p . 103 . How the poet sung , that more men rejoiced at the error of the foolish people , than rejoiced at true sayings : that is ...
... wealthy and powerful : and how other friends come with wealth , and again with wealth depart . XXX . p . 103 . How the poet sung , that more men rejoiced at the error of the foolish people , than rejoiced at true sayings : that is ...
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... wealth and true dignity , are mine own servants , and wheresoever I am , they are with me . Know thou for truth , if the riches which thou art lamenting that thou hast lost them , had been thine own , thou couldest not have lost them ...
... wealth and true dignity , are mine own servants , and wheresoever I am , they are with me . Know thou for truth , if the riches which thou art lamenting that thou hast lost them , had been thine own , thou couldest not have lost them ...
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... wealthy men with gold , and with silver , and with all precious things , nevertheless the thirst of their avarice will not be satisfied , but the unfathomable gulf will have very many waste holes to gather into . Who can give enough to ...
... wealthy men with gold , and with silver , and with all precious things , nevertheless the thirst of their avarice will not be satisfied , but the unfathomable gulf will have very many waste holes to gather into . Who can give enough to ...
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... wealth ; but they have nevertheless shame of the wealth , if they are not so noble in birth as they wish . Some are very noble and eminent on account of their birth , but they are oppressed and made sad zeunpotsode . Phim pæne leone hi ...
... wealth ; but they have nevertheless shame of the wealth , if they are not so noble in birth as they wish . Some are very noble and eminent on account of their birth , but they are oppressed and made sad zeunpotsode . Phim pæne leone hi ...
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