Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 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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... valet , cook , butcher and soldier , and the habit of supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances . Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer , and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of . 25 HISTORY .
... valet , cook , butcher and soldier , and the habit of supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances . Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer , and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of . 25 HISTORY .
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... Xenophon arose naked , and taking an axe , began to split wood ; whereupon others rose and did the like . " Throughout his army seemed to be a boundless liberty of speech . They quarrel for plunder , they wrangle with the generals on ...
... Xenophon arose naked , and taking an axe , began to split wood ; whereupon others rose and did the like . " Throughout his army seemed to be a boundless liberty of speech . They quarrel for plunder , they wrangle with the generals on ...
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... Xenophon , Columbus , Bayard , Sidney , Hampden , teach us how needlessly mean our life is ; that we , by the depth of our living , should deck it with more than regal or national splendor , and act on principles that should interest ...
... Xenophon , Columbus , Bayard , Sidney , Hampden , teach us how needlessly mean our life is ; that we , by the depth of our living , should deck it with more than regal or national splendor , and act on principles that should interest ...
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