Author: Plutarch
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Category : Punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Plutarch
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Category : Punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Author: H. B. Hackett
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428427078
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Excerpt from Plutarch on the Delay of the Deity in the Punishment of the Wicked: With Notes It): may be preper to repeat here the import of a few sen tenoes from this Preface, since they have a bearing also on the object and plan of the present publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Plutarch
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Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Author: Plutarch
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Author: Plutarch
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Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Author: Plutarch
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Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Author: Plutarch
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736414102
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Plutarch, who was born at Chæronea in Bœotia, probably about A.D. 50, and was a contemporary of Tacitus and Pliny, has written two works still extant, the well-known Lives, and the less-known Moralia. The Lives have often been translated, and have always been a popular work. Great indeed was their power at the period of the French Revolution. The Moralia, on the other hand, consisting of various Essays on various subjects (only twenty-six of which are directly ethical, though they have given their name to the Moralia), are declared by Mr. Paley "to be practically almost unknown to most persons in Britain, even to those who call themselves scholars."1 Habent etiam sua fata libelli. In older days the Moralia were more valued. Montaigne, who was a great lover of Plutarch, and who observes in one passage of his Essays that "Plutarch and Seneca were the only two books of solid learning he seriously settled himself to read," quotes as much from the Moralia as from the Lives. And in the seventeenth century I cannot but think the Moralia were largely read at our Universities, at least at the University of Cambridge. For, not to mention the wonderful way in which the famous Jeremy Taylor has taken the cream of "Conjugal Precepts" in his Sermon called "The Marriage Ring," or the large and copious use viiihe has made in his "Holy Living" of three other Essays in this volume, namely, those "On Curiosity," "On Restraining Anger," and "On Contentedness of Mind," proving conclusively what a storehouse he found the Moralia, we have evidence that that most delightful poet, Robert Herrick, read the Moralia, too, when at Cambridge, so that one cannot but think it was a work read in the University course generally in those days. For in a letter to his uncle written from Cambridge, asking for books or money for books, he makes the following remark: "How kind Arcisilaus the philosopher was unto Apelles the painter, Plutark in his Morals will tell you."...

Author: Lucius Edwin Smith
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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