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 56
... seen from thence - not that any natural barrier , so far as I know , intervenes , but simply from the weakness of mortal sight . But the mountains of the Lyons province on the right , and on the left the bay of Marseilles , which lashes ...
... seen from thence - not that any natural barrier , so far as I know , intervenes , but simply from the weakness of mortal sight . But the mountains of the Lyons province on the right , and on the left the bay of Marseilles , which lashes ...
Page 103
... seen as yet , protecting them from all surrounding harm , so you , without having seen my face , with- out my name being known to you , have still , uninterruptedly , reared and nourished me on your own most chaste breasts of divine ...
... seen as yet , protecting them from all surrounding harm , so you , without having seen my face , with- out my name being known to you , have still , uninterruptedly , reared and nourished me on your own most chaste breasts of divine ...
Page 128
... seen ; being more than ten times the number of those that can be seen with the unassisted eye . Moreover , I have ascertained what has always been a matter of controversy among philosophers ; namely , the nature of the Milky Way . But ...
... seen ; being more than ten times the number of those that can be seen with the unassisted eye . Moreover , I have ascertained what has always been a matter of controversy among philosophers ; namely , the nature of the Milky Way . But ...
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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