Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: essays, moral, political and literary, Band 1Bell & Bradfute, 1825 - 544 Seiten |
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... Plutarch , accompanied with am- bassadors from almost all the Greek cities . The Ætolian ambassador very abruptly tells the king , that he talked like a fool or a madman ( λnguv . ) " That's evident , ( says his Majesty ) , even to a ...
... Plutarch , accompanied with am- bassadors from almost all the Greek cities . The Ætolian ambassador very abruptly tells the king , that he talked like a fool or a madman ( λnguv . ) " That's evident , ( says his Majesty ) , even to a ...
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... Plutarch , too , mentions this raillery amongst the witty and agreeable sayings of Flamininus . Cardinal Wolsey apologized for his famous piece of in- solence , in saying , EGO ET REX MEUS , I and my King , by observing , that this ...
... Plutarch , too , mentions this raillery amongst the witty and agreeable sayings of Flamininus . Cardinal Wolsey apologized for his famous piece of in- solence , in saying , EGO ET REX MEUS , I and my King , by observing , that this ...
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... Plutarch to a friend in banishment , is no evil : Mathematicians tell us , that the whole earth is but a point , compared to the heavens . To change one's country , then , is little more than to remove from one street to another . Man ...
... Plutarch to a friend in banishment , is no evil : Mathematicians tell us , that the whole earth is but a point , compared to the heavens . To change one's country , then , is little more than to remove from one street to another . Man ...
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... Plutarch , discoursing of the effects of air on the minds of men , observes , that the inhabitants of the Piræum possessed very different tempers from those of the higher town in Athens , which was distant about four miles from the for ...
... Plutarch , discoursing of the effects of air on the minds of men , observes , that the inhabitants of the Piræum possessed very different tempers from those of the higher town in Athens , which was distant about four miles from the for ...
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... Plutarch d take notice of the riches which Alexander got possession of on the conquest of Susa and Ecbatana , and which were reserved , some of them , from the time of Cyrus . If I re- member right , the Scripture also mentions the ...
... Plutarch d take notice of the riches which Alexander got possession of on the conquest of Susa and Ecbatana , and which were reserved , some of them , from the time of Cyrus . If I re- member right , the Scripture also mentions the ...
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