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 93
... least : the best men everywhere are those who are least offended with him . ” FAILURE OF AN ATTEMPT TO POISON HIM [ A LETTER 93 ERASMUS TO ADRIAN VI.
... least : the best men everywhere are those who are least offended with him . ” FAILURE OF AN ATTEMPT TO POISON HIM [ A LETTER 93 ERASMUS TO ADRIAN VI.
Page 173
... least surprise or impertinent curiosity , but received me with all the obliging civility possible . I know no European court where the ladies would have behaved themselves in so polite a manner to a stranger . I believe in the whole ...
... least surprise or impertinent curiosity , but received me with all the obliging civility possible . I know no European court where the ladies would have behaved themselves in so polite a manner to a stranger . I believe in the whole ...
Page 230
... least one line that has achieved Bartlett's -or should have . In the society - almanac section , the reader will prob- ably agree with the editors that footnoting such frippery and dazzle is an antiquarian's job ; in the paragraphs ...
... least one line that has achieved Bartlett's -or should have . In the society - almanac section , the reader will prob- ably agree with the editors that footnoting such frippery and dazzle is an antiquarian's job ; in the paragraphs ...
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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