Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1J.M. Dent, 1961 |
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Page 54
... nature , send the bodies , too , of good men to heaven ; but we must really believe that , according to their divine nature and law , their virtue and their souls are translated out of men into heroes , out of heroes into demi - gods ...
... nature , send the bodies , too , of good men to heaven ; but we must really believe that , according to their divine nature and law , their virtue and their souls are translated out of men into heroes , out of heroes into demi - gods ...
Page 134
... nature ; for now , since she can quit him for whom she pleases , they would either abstain from such marriages , or continue them with dis- grace , and suffer for their covetousness and designed affront ; it is well done , moreover , to ...
... nature ; for now , since she can quit him for whom she pleases , they would either abstain from such marriages , or continue them with dis- grace , and suffer for their covetousness and designed affront ; it is well done , moreover , to ...
Page 327
... nature without proper discipline , like a rich soil without culture , is apt with its better fruits to produce also much that is bad and faulty . While the force and vigour of his soul , and a persever- ing constancy in all he undertook ...
... nature without proper discipline , like a rich soil without culture , is apt with its better fruits to produce also much that is bad and faulty . While the force and vigour of his soul , and a persever- ing constancy in all he undertook ...
Contents
THE COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS | 56 |
NUMA POMPILIUS | 91 |
THE COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS | 114 |
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