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 153
... matter for talk ! ” I Paris , Monday , December 15 , 1670 AM going to tell you a thing the most astonishing , the most surprising , the most marvelous , the most miraculous , the most magnificent , the most confounding , the most ...
... matter for talk ! ” I Paris , Monday , December 15 , 1670 AM going to tell you a thing the most astonishing , the most surprising , the most marvelous , the most miraculous , the most magnificent , the most confounding , the most ...
Page 198
... matter of some trifle not worth going into , then let the matter drop , and let the aggressor be the first to hold his peace , and not make it a stupid point of honor always to have the last word . That's how I would have my friend act ...
... matter of some trifle not worth going into , then let the matter drop , and let the aggressor be the first to hold his peace , and not make it a stupid point of honor always to have the last word . That's how I would have my friend act ...
Page 527
... matter is it what else the world contains - if you only are in it in every part of it ? I can find no corner of it without you — my eyes would not see it . It is empty- I have seen all that is there and it is nothing , and over creation ...
... matter is it what else the world contains - if you only are in it in every part of it ? I can find no corner of it without you — my eyes would not see it . It is empty- I have seen all that is there and it is nothing , and over creation ...
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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