The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... things , and by that means become beneficial to mankind . For which reason , he gives his sons a positive order not to enshrine it in gold or silver , but to lay it in the earth as soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of ...
... things , and by that means become beneficial to mankind . For which reason , he gives his sons a positive order not to enshrine it in gold or silver , but to lay it in the earth as soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of ...
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... I have foreknown Clearly all things that should be ; nothing done Comes sudden to my soul ; and I must bear What is ordained with patience , being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture . ÆSCHYLUS 23 ÆSCHYLUS ...
... I have foreknown Clearly all things that should be ; nothing done Comes sudden to my soul ; and I must bear What is ordained with patience , being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture . ÆSCHYLUS 23 ÆSCHYLUS ...
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... things is torture to me , But so , too , is their silence ; each way lies Woe strong as fate . When gods began with wrath , And war rose up between their starry brows , Some choosing to cast Chronos from his throne That Zeus might king ...
... things is torture to me , But so , too , is their silence ; each way lies Woe strong as fate . When gods began with wrath , And war rose up between their starry brows , Some choosing to cast Chronos from his throne That Zeus might king ...
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... thing , and we fear that in the vehemence of your affection you might possibly do her some injury . Might I venture to suggest that your Maj- esty should have your claws removed , and your teeth extracted ; then we would gladly consider ...
... thing , and we fear that in the vehemence of your affection you might possibly do her some injury . Might I venture to suggest that your Maj- esty should have your claws removed , and your teeth extracted ; then we would gladly consider ...
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... thing of Africa ; for , in his time , the Phoenicians , in their com- mercial expeditions , had sailed far to the south , had reached the termination of Africa , with ocean lying all around it , and had seen the sun to the north of them ...
... thing of Africa ; for , in his time , the Phoenicians , in their com- mercial expeditions , had sailed far to the south , had reached the termination of Africa , with ocean lying all around it , and had seen the sun to the north of them ...
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