Theeophrasti Characteres: with notes by J.G. Sheppard1852 |
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... moral Characters of Theo- phrastus with with a critical Essay on characteristic Writing , " by Henry Galley , M.A. , but I have not been able to discover that it contains anything de- serving of notice . The version most commonly met ...
... moral Characters of Theo- phrastus with with a critical Essay on characteristic Writing , " by Henry Galley , M.A. , but I have not been able to discover that it contains anything de- serving of notice . The version most commonly met ...
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... moral philosopher , they undoubtedly exhibit a nearer connection . And that they may have been sug- gested by the well known examples in the Nicomachean Ethics and Rhetoric of Aristotle , is by no means impro- bable . Yet the ...
... moral philosopher , they undoubtedly exhibit a nearer connection . And that they may have been sug- gested by the well known examples in the Nicomachean Ethics and Rhetoric of Aristotle , is by no means impro- bable . Yet the ...
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Theophrastus John George Sheppard. Seneca for their moral utility , with the lively and amusing pictures of Athenian life which this graphic volume sets before us . rical . Once more , in satirical ... moral utility, with the lively and ...
Theophrastus John George Sheppard. Seneca for their moral utility , with the lively and amusing pictures of Athenian life which this graphic volume sets before us . rical . Once more , in satirical ... moral utility, with the lively and ...
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... moral philosophy , if for no other reason , at least for this , that he was the favourite pupil of that great teacher who , for more than ten centuries , swayed the empire of the European mind . The impress of the master's intellect To ...
... moral philosophy , if for no other reason , at least for this , that he was the favourite pupil of that great teacher who , for more than ten centuries , swayed the empire of the European mind . The impress of the master's intellect To ...
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... Morals . In so doing he de- fined the virtue of social intercourse to be a line of conduct equally remote from all ... moral philosopher . He has merits peculiarly his own ; he has done what perhaps no other man has ever done in the ...
... Morals . In so doing he de- fined the virtue of social intercourse to be a line of conduct equally remote from all ... moral philosopher . He has merits peculiarly his own ; he has done what perhaps no other man has ever done in the ...
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