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Page iv
... seem to linger lovingly upon , is dismissed by Plutarch in a few lines , unless any circumstance of note attended the death of the person described . Without denying that Plutarch is often inaccurate and often diffuse ; that his ...
... seem to linger lovingly upon , is dismissed by Plutarch in a few lines , unless any circumstance of note attended the death of the person described . Without denying that Plutarch is often inaccurate and often diffuse ; that his ...
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... seems as absurd as to make a Roman swear by Herakles or Arcs . Yet both Greck and Roman divinities are constantly mentioned . The only course that seemed to avoid absolute absurdity appeared to me to be that which I have adopted ...
... seems as absurd as to make a Roman swear by Herakles or Arcs . Yet both Greck and Roman divinities are constantly mentioned . The only course that seemed to avoid absolute absurdity appeared to me to be that which I have adopted ...
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... seems to have had a fascination for the Greeks , and at Egypt . The " wisdom of the Egyptians " always period Alexandria , with its fauons library and its memories of the Ptolemies , of Kallimachus and of Theo- a descendant of that ...
... seems to have had a fascination for the Greeks , and at Egypt . The " wisdom of the Egyptians " always period Alexandria , with its fauons library and its memories of the Ptolemies , of Kallimachus and of Theo- a descendant of that ...
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... seems evident from Plutarch's own notices of them , and from the names which have been preserved of the eminent men who used to frequent them . Moreover , strango though it may appear to us , the demand for books seems to have been very ...
... seems evident from Plutarch's own notices of them , and from the names which have been preserved of the eminent men who used to frequent them . Moreover , strango though it may appear to us , the demand for books seems to have been very ...
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... seems to be now generally thought that his stay at Rome says was a short one . Clough , in his excellent Preface , the earlier biographies , from that of Rualdus downwards , on this subject , " The fault which runs through all in the ...
... seems to be now generally thought that his stay at Rome says was a short one . Clough , in his excellent Preface , the earlier biographies , from that of Rualdus downwards , on this subject , " The fault which runs through all in the ...
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