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... admiration , and with interest ; but few , like Plutarch , can gossip pleasantly while instruct- ing solidly ; can breathe life into the dry skeleton of history , and show that tho life of a Greek or Roman worthy , when rightly dealt ...
... admiration , and with interest ; but few , like Plutarch , can gossip pleasantly while instruct- ing solidly ; can breathe life into the dry skeleton of history , and show that tho life of a Greek or Roman worthy , when rightly dealt ...
Page vii
... admired in its day ; a modern reviewer even goes so far as to say that it is " still beyond compari- son the best version of Parallel Lives which the English tongue affords . " Bo this as it may , the world will ever be deeply indebted ...
... admired in its day ; a modern reviewer even goes so far as to say that it is " still beyond compari- son the best version of Parallel Lives which the English tongue affords . " Bo this as it may , the world will ever be deeply indebted ...
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... mean and disingenuous will be in- creased ; his admiration of whatever is truthful and generous will be strengthened and exalted . The translation of theso Lives is difficult . Plutarch's text PREFACE TO THE CIVIL WARS OF ROME . XY.
... mean and disingenuous will be in- creased ; his admiration of whatever is truthful and generous will be strengthened and exalted . The translation of theso Lives is difficult . Plutarch's text PREFACE TO THE CIVIL WARS OF ROME . XY.
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... admiration which Theseus conceived for Herakles make him dream by night of his great exploits , and by day determine to equal thom by similar achievements of his own . VII . As it happened , they were connected , being second cousins ...
... admiration which Theseus conceived for Herakles make him dream by night of his great exploits , and by day determine to equal thom by similar achievements of his own . VII . As it happened , they were connected , being second cousins ...
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... admired his courage and patriotism , and geus finding that his prayers and entreaties had no effect on his unalterable resolution , proceeded to choose the rest by lot . Hellanikus says that the city did not select the youths and ...
... admired his courage and patriotism , and geus finding that his prayers and entreaties had no effect on his unalterable resolution , proceeded to choose the rest by lot . Hellanikus says that the city did not select the youths and ...
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