The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin : with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 |
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... Plutarch saith well to that purpose : " Surely , " saith he , " I had rather a great deal men should say , there was no such man at all as Plutarch , than that they should say , that there was one Plutarch , that would eat his children ...
... Plutarch saith well to that purpose : " Surely , " saith he , " I had rather a great deal men should say , there was no such man at all as Plutarch , than that they should say , that there was one Plutarch , that would eat his children ...
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... Plutarch saith of Timoleon's fortune , in respect of that of Agesilaus or Epaminondas . And that this should be , no doubt it is much in a man's self . OF YOUTH AND AGE .. For A man that is young in years , may be old in hours , if he ...
... Plutarch saith of Timoleon's fortune , in respect of that of Agesilaus or Epaminondas . And that this should be , no doubt it is much in a man's self . OF YOUTH AND AGE .. For A man that is young in years , may be old in hours , if he ...
Strana 40
... PLUTARCH . - Poetry and picture are arts of a like nature , and both are busy about imitation . It was excellently said of Plutarch , poetry was a speaking picture , and picture a mute poesy . For they both invent , feign , and devise ...
... PLUTARCH . - Poetry and picture are arts of a like nature , and both are busy about imitation . It was excellently said of Plutarch , poetry was a speaking picture , and picture a mute poesy . For they both invent , feign , and devise ...
Strana 42
... Plutarch ad- vise , let him oppose , fortify , or prepare himself against them , by premeditation , reason , or as we do by a crooked staff , bend himself another way . " Tu tamen interea effugito que tristia mentem Solicitant , 42 THE ...
... Plutarch ad- vise , let him oppose , fortify , or prepare himself against them , by premeditation , reason , or as we do by a crooked staff , bend himself another way . " Tu tamen interea effugito que tristia mentem Solicitant , 42 THE ...
Strana 43
... Plutarch saith ) : we may frame ourselves as we will . As he that useth an upright shoe , may correct the obliquity or crookedness by wearing it on the other side ; we may overcome passions if we will . Quicquid sibi imperavit animus ...
... Plutarch saith ) : we may frame ourselves as we will . As he that useth an upright shoe , may correct the obliquity or crookedness by wearing it on the other side ; we may overcome passions if we will . Quicquid sibi imperavit animus ...
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