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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Page 83
... doubt whether Giuliano would even read it , and his Ardin- ghelli might take the credit for this latest labor of mine . But present it I must , for necessity hounds me , I cannot remain like this with- out becoming importunate in my ...
... doubt whether Giuliano would even read it , and his Ardin- ghelli might take the credit for this latest labor of mine . But present it I must , for necessity hounds me , I cannot remain like this with- out becoming importunate in my ...
Page 204
... doubt ; that she benefited Russia , there is a great deal of doubt . What she did was to save the Russian people from an even worse fate : Peter III . How a German princess came to rule " all the Russias " and become a female Peter the ...
... doubt ; that she benefited Russia , there is a great deal of doubt . What she did was to save the Russian people from an even worse fate : Peter III . How a German princess came to rule " all the Russias " and become a female Peter the ...
Page 304
... doubt . But we have as little doubt that , after the closest scrutiny , there will still remain much that can only perish with the English language . " His letters also belong to that much that will not perish . The man who influenced ...
... doubt . But we have as little doubt that , after the closest scrutiny , there will still remain much that can only perish with the English language . " His letters also belong to that much that will not perish . The man who influenced ...
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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