Essays, Volume 2G. Richards, 1901 - 354 pages |
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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 ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progres- sive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progres- sive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes ...
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... Plutarch said . When we see a soul whose acts are all regal , graceful , and pleasant as roses , we must thank God that such things can be and are , and not turn sourly on the angel , and say , ' Crump is a better man with his grunting ...
... Plutarch said . When we see a soul whose acts are all regal , graceful , and pleasant as roses , we must thank God that such things can be and are , and not turn sourly on the angel , and say , ' Crump is a better man with his grunting ...
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... Plutarch said , ́en- amelled 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 , ́en- amelled 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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... Plutarch , and Apuleius taught it , so have Petrarch , Angelo , and Milton . It awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subter- ranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world ...
... Plutarch , and Apuleius taught it , so have Petrarch , Angelo , and Milton . It awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subter- ranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world ...
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