Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... Homer speaks of . " By this speech he made Alexander his enemy . The same Theocritus put Antigonus , the King of the Macedonians , a one - eyed man , into a thundering rage by alluding to his misfortune . For the King sent his chief ...
... Homer speaks of . " By this speech he made Alexander his enemy . The same Theocritus put Antigonus , the King of the Macedonians , a one - eyed man , into a thundering rage by alluding to his misfortune . For the King sent his chief ...
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... Homer , " whom the hunters meet in the wood with its whelps , exulting in its strength , which so frowns that it hides its eyes , ' " does it not intend to bargain with the hunters for its whelps ? For universally the love of animals ...
... Homer , " whom the hunters meet in the wood with its whelps , exulting in its strength , which so frowns that it hides its eyes , ' " does it not intend to bargain with the hunters for its whelps ? For universally the love of animals ...
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Ethical Essays Plutarch Arthur Richard Shilleto. unselfish . And so the bird in Homer , feeding its young " with its beak , with whatever it has captured , even though it goes ill with itself , " nourishes its young at the cost of its ...
Ethical Essays Plutarch Arthur Richard Shilleto. unselfish . And so the bird in Homer , feeding its young " with its beak , with whatever it has captured , even though it goes ill with itself , " nourishes its young at the cost of its ...
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... Homer , but by some Homerid who had been a mother , or was even then in the throes of travail , and who vividly felt the sharp pain in her womb . But the love to one's offspring implanted by nature , moves and influences the mother even ...
... Homer , but by some Homerid who had been a mother , or was even then in the throes of travail , and who vividly felt the sharp pain in her womb . But the love to one's offspring implanted by nature , moves and influences the mother even ...
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... Homer called black , and a bird of prey , ' and there are other kinds of spurious eagles , which catch fish and lazy birds in marshes , and often in want of food emit an hungry wail : so the genuine love is the love of boys , a love not ...
... Homer called black , and a bird of prey , ' and there are other kinds of spurious eagles , which catch fish and lazy birds in marshes , and often in want of food emit an hungry wail : so the genuine love is the love of boys , a love not ...
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