Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... Xenophon , Plutarch have given it - a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . Then we have the same soul expressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very ...
... Xenophon , Plutarch have given it - a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . Then we have the same soul expressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very ...
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... Xenophon gives of himself and his com- patriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground , covered with it . But ...
... Xenophon gives of himself and his com- patriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground , covered with it . But ...
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