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... History of any givon time , yet they are valuable as portraits of illustrious men , and help us to form a better judgment of those who make so conspicuous a figure in IIistory . Plutarch was a native of the town of Charoncia , in ...
... History of any givon time , yet they are valuable as portraits of illustrious men , and help us to form a better judgment of those who make so conspicuous a figure in IIistory . Plutarch was a native of the town of Charoncia , in ...
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... history of all the public events in which he was engaged , is not biography , but history . This extract from Plutarch will also in some measure be an apology for the want of historical order observable in many of his Lives . Though ...
... history of all the public events in which he was engaged , is not biography , but history . This extract from Plutarch will also in some measure be an apology for the want of historical order observable in many of his Lives . Though ...
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... into others . The translation of Kaltwasser contains some useful notes . Those which I have added to this translation are intended to explain so much as needs explanation to a person who is not much acquainted with Roman history and.
... into others . The translation of Kaltwasser contains some useful notes . Those which I have added to this translation are intended to explain so much as needs explanation to a person who is not much acquainted with Roman history and.
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Plutarch. person who is not much acquainted with Roman history and Roman usages ; but they will also be useful to others . The notes of ... history , he PREFACE TO THE CIVIL WARS OF ROME . shall by b2 PREFACE TO THE CIVIL WARS OF ROME . xix.
Plutarch. person who is not much acquainted with Roman history and Roman usages ; but they will also be useful to others . The notes of ... history , he PREFACE TO THE CIVIL WARS OF ROME . shall by b2 PREFACE TO THE CIVIL WARS OF ROME . xix.
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... history . The reading apply ourselves unto with the most differing and uncer- tain measures . " North , in his address to the Reader , says : " The profit of stories , and the praise of the Author , Reader : so that I shall not need to ...
... history . The reading apply ourselves unto with the most differing and uncer- tain measures . " North , in his address to the Reader , says : " The profit of stories , and the praise of the Author , Reader : so that I shall not need to ...
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