Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... poet , Robert Herrick , read the Moralia , too , when at Cambridge , so that one cannot but think it was a work read in the University course generally in those days . For in a letter to his uncle written from Cambridge , asking for ...
... poet , Robert Herrick , read the Moralia , too , when at Cambridge , so that one cannot but think it was a work read in the University course generally in those days . For in a letter to his uncle written from Cambridge , asking for ...
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... poet was wise , who said , " Unless the founda- tion of a house be well laid , the descendants must of neces- sity be unfortunate . ” 1 Good birth indeed brings with it a store of assurance , which ought to be greatly valued by all who ...
... poet was wise , who said , " Unless the founda- tion of a house be well laid , the descendants must of neces- sity be unfortunate . ” 1 Good birth indeed brings with it a store of assurance , which ought to be greatly valued by all who ...
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... poet also seems to give admirable advice when he says , " We must teach good habits while the pupil is still a boy . " § VI . Attention also must be given to this point , that the lads that are to wait upon and be with young people must ...
... poet also seems to give admirable advice when he says , " We must teach good habits while the pupil is still a boy . " § VI . Attention also must be given to this point , that the lads that are to wait upon and be with young people must ...
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... poet's words are especially applicable to a new- born babe . For there is nothing so imperfect , so helpless , so naked , so shapeless , so foul as a newborn babe : to whom almost alone nature has given an impure outlet to the light of ...
... poet's words are especially applicable to a new- born babe . For there is nothing so imperfect , so helpless , so naked , so shapeless , so foul as a newborn babe : to whom almost alone nature has given an impure outlet to the light of ...
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... has the greatest 1 A fragment from Euripides , according to Xylander , 2 Evenus of Paros was an Elegiac Poet . 8 Aristophanes , " Equites , " 50 , 51 . man , 66 power among mankind , " is not merely a ON LOVE TO ONE'S OFFSPRING . 27.
... has the greatest 1 A fragment from Euripides , according to Xylander , 2 Evenus of Paros was an Elegiac Poet . 8 Aristophanes , " Equites , " 50 , 51 . man , 66 power among mankind , " is not merely a ON LOVE TO ONE'S OFFSPRING . 27.
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