Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 sider |
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... character , and of great experience . For a good training is the source and root of gentlemanly behaviour . And just as farmers prop up their trees , so good school- masters prop up the young by good advice and suggestions , 1 Plato ...
... character , and of great experience . For a good training is the source and root of gentlemanly behaviour . And just as farmers prop up their trees , so good school- masters prop up the young by good advice and suggestions , 1 Plato ...
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... character of expression . But to let mere lads speak extempore is to give rise to the acme of foolish talk . A wretched painter once showed Apelles , they say , a picture , and said , " I have just done it . " Apelles replied , “ With ...
... character of expression . But to let mere lads speak extempore is to give rise to the acme of foolish talk . A wretched painter once showed Apelles , they say , a picture , and said , " I have just done it . " Apelles replied , “ With ...
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... character of Micio in the " Adelphi " of Terence . 2 This saying is assigned by Diogenes Laertius to Pittacus . 3 Compare Plautus , " Asinaria , " i . 1. 74 . imperium vendidi . " Compare also our author , cient to cause Unhappiness ...
... character of Micio in the " Adelphi " of Terence . 2 This saying is assigned by Diogenes Laertius to Pittacus . 3 Compare Plautus , " Asinaria , " i . 1. 74 . imperium vendidi . " Compare also our author , cient to cause Unhappiness ...
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... character almost past bearing ? Do they not sometimes get called waspish and shrewish by virtue of their very chastity ? Would it be best then to marry off the street some Thracian Abrotonus , or some Milesian Bacchis , and seal the ...
... character almost past bearing ? Do they not sometimes get called waspish and shrewish by virtue of their very chastity ? Would it be best then to marry off the street some Thracian Abrotonus , or some Milesian Bacchis , and seal the ...
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... character as shall over- balance her , yet only just . Moreover , both Ismenodora and Baccho are of a suitable age for marriage and pro- creation of children ; Ismenodora , I hear , is still in her prime , and " ( here my father smiled ...
... character as shall over- balance her , yet only just . Moreover , both Ismenodora and Baccho are of a suitable age for marriage and pro- creation of children ; Ismenodora , I hear , is still in her prime , and " ( here my father smiled ...
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