The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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Page 46
... Plutarch very often apply their judgments as imper- tinently as the old woman I have before mentioned , though their manner of relating them makes the folly itself appear venerable . Indeed , most historians , as well Christian as pagan ...
... Plutarch very often apply their judgments as imper- tinently as the old woman I have before mentioned , though their manner of relating them makes the folly itself appear venerable . Indeed , most historians , as well Christian as pagan ...
Page 68
... Plutarch ascribes to Heraclitus , that all men whilst they are awake are in one common world ; but that each of them , when he is asleep , is in a world of his own . The waking man is conver- sant in the world of nature : when he sleeps ...
... Plutarch ascribes to Heraclitus , that all men whilst they are awake are in one common world ; but that each of them , when he is asleep , is in a world of his own . The waking man is conver- sant in the world of nature : when he sleeps ...
Page 99
... Plutarch , than that Plutarch was ill - natured , capricious , or in- human . ' If we may believe our logicians , man is distin- guished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter . He has a heart capable of mirth , and na ...
... Plutarch , than that Plutarch was ill - natured , capricious , or in- human . ' If we may believe our logicians , man is distin- guished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter . He has a heart capable of mirth , and na ...
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