Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ...
... Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ...
Page 75
... Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called ...
... Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called ...
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... virtues , the better we like him . Timoleon's victories are the best victories ; which ran and flowed like Ho- mer's verses , Plutarch said . When we see a soul whose acts are all regal , graceful , and pleasant SPIRITUAL LAWS . 119.
... virtues , the better we like him . Timoleon's victories are the best victories ; which ran and flowed like Ho- mer's verses , Plutarch said . When we see a soul whose acts are all regal , graceful , and pleasant SPIRITUAL LAWS . 119.
Page 159
... Plutarch said , " enamelled in fire , " and make the study of midnight . " Thou art not gone being gone , where'er thou art , Thou leav'st in him thy watchful eyes , in him thy loving heart . " In the noon and the afternoon of life we ...
... Plutarch said , " enamelled in fire , " and make the study of midnight . " Thou art not gone being gone , where'er thou art , Thou leav'st in him thy watchful eyes , in him thy loving heart . " In the noon and the afternoon of life we ...
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... created souls . Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages . The doctrine is not old , nor is it new . If Plato , Plutarch , and Apuleius taught it , so have Petrarch , Angelo , and Milton . It LOVE . 165.
... created souls . Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages . The doctrine is not old , nor is it new . If Plato , Plutarch , and Apuleius taught it , so have Petrarch , Angelo , and Milton . It LOVE . 165.
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