A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the ArtsWallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer Simon and Schuster, 1941 - 636 pages Brockway, Wallace & Winer, Bart Keith, ed. |
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... coming to call on me . He had arrived at his Cumean villa yesterday , that is , the 13th . If his conversation , there- fore , furnishes me with any subject worth writing to you , I will append it to this letter . Curio passed by my ...
... coming to call on me . He had arrived at his Cumean villa yesterday , that is , the 13th . If his conversation , there- fore , furnishes me with any subject worth writing to you , I will append it to this letter . Curio passed by my ...
Page 63
... coming . Do not believe the devil , who perceives his own loss , and so exerts himself to rob you of your possessions in order that you may lose your love and charity and your coming be hindered . I tell you , father in Christ Jesus ...
... coming . Do not believe the devil , who perceives his own loss , and so exerts himself to rob you of your possessions in order that you may lose your love and charity and your coming be hindered . I tell you , father in Christ Jesus ...
Page 473
... coming through . I do I am sure . I cannot remember now whether one ought to say the calf of the arm or the calf of the leg . My shoulder is like a shoulder of beef . I dare not speak above a whisper for fear of bellowing there now , I ...
... coming through . I do I am sure . I cannot remember now whether one ought to say the calf of the arm or the calf of the leg . My shoulder is like a shoulder of beef . I dare not speak above a whisper for fear of bellowing there now , I ...
Contents
A FATAL FRIENDSHIP A SERIES | 3 |
CAESAR WARNS CICERO TO STAND ALOOF FROM CIVIL STRIFE | 12 |
SENECA DENOUNCES THE MODERN TREATMENT | 17 |
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