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 217
... received it drawn up in your way — I say your way — for it is not stated so much to your honour and credit , as I had passed the account before - for it was a most lamented truth , that I never received one of the let- ters your ...
... received it drawn up in your way — I say your way — for it is not stated so much to your honour and credit , as I had passed the account before - for it was a most lamented truth , that I never received one of the let- ters your ...
Page 332
... received the money from Rogers , whose purse was always at the disposal of his needy friends . In July , 1816 , he died . Im- mediately the rumor got around that he had lived out his last months in dire poverty and may have died through ...
... received the money from Rogers , whose purse was always at the disposal of his needy friends . In July , 1816 , he died . Im- mediately the rumor got around that he had lived out his last months in dire poverty and may have died through ...
Page 470
... received only the First Part of Criticisms and Por- traits from Hegel ; but even if I had received the whole , I should have confined myself to thanking you heartily for the book . I am an exceedingly poor critic . Concerning certain ...
... received only the First Part of Criticisms and Por- traits from Hegel ; but even if I had received the whole , I should have confined myself to thanking you heartily for the book . I am an exceedingly poor critic . Concerning certain ...
Contents
A FATAL FRIENDSHIP A SERIES | 3 |
what can be more becoming to a good man | 12 |
SENECA DENOUNCES THE MODERN TREATMENT | 17 |
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