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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... true , I don't see what is to happen in our present state of life , when we are practically exiles . For if the Republic had still had any existence , I should have been at no loss what to do either by way of severity or indulgence ...
... true , I don't see what is to happen in our present state of life , when we are practically exiles . For if the Republic had still had any existence , I should have been at no loss what to do either by way of severity or indulgence ...
Page 148
... true what the barbarian said , yet having , to my loss of a harvest that yeare , been now ( though by their gentle advice ) as good as banished from Plymmouth as from the Massachusetts ; and I had quietly and pa- tiently departed from ...
... true what the barbarian said , yet having , to my loss of a harvest that yeare , been now ( though by their gentle advice ) as good as banished from Plymmouth as from the Massachusetts ; and I had quietly and pa- tiently departed from ...
Page 490
... true ? It is true that now and then I have earned my crust of bread , now and then a friend has given it to me in charity . I have lived as I could , as luck would have it , haphazardly , it is true that I have lost the confidence of ...
... true ? It is true that now and then I have earned my crust of bread , now and then a friend has given it to me in charity . I have lived as I could , as luck would have it , haphazardly , it is true that I have lost the confidence of ...
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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