The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen5David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... king to be pleased , who may protect us against the shock of the envious plebeians , the reign- ing humors of the times which plead custom and not reason . We must have intelligencers abroad , to learn what practices , our enemy , Sin ...
... king to be pleased , who may protect us against the shock of the envious plebeians , the reign- ing humors of the times which plead custom and not reason . We must have intelligencers abroad , to learn what practices , our enemy , Sin ...
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... king was so pleased with this answer that he gave him his liberty , and allowed him to return . Diogenes considered that the wise could never be in want of anything , and that the whole world was at their disposal « Every- thing ...
... king was so pleased with this answer that he gave him his liberty , and allowed him to return . Diogenes considered that the wise could never be in want of anything , and that the whole world was at their disposal « Every- thing ...
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... king were indig- nant that so great a monarch should thus honor such a dog as Diogenes , who did not even rise from his place . Alexander per- ceived it , and , turning about to them , said : " Were I not Alexan- der , I should wish to ...
... king were indig- nant that so great a monarch should thus honor such a dog as Diogenes , who did not even rise from his place . Alexander per- ceived it , and , turning about to them , said : " Were I not Alexan- der , I should wish to ...
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... kings , you would not give yourself the trouble to wash herbs . " " And , ” replied Diogenes , " if you knew the pleas- ure there is in washing herbs , you would not give yourself the trouble to please kings . " On another occasion he ...
... kings , you would not give yourself the trouble to wash herbs . " " And , ” replied Diogenes , " if you knew the pleas- ure there is in washing herbs , you would not give yourself the trouble to please kings . " On another occasion he ...
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... kings to govern wrong , " with the pious and loyal inference of the flagrant in- iquity of expelling Tarquin . I am supposing the observer to per- ceive all these accommodating dexterities of reason ; for it were probably absurd to ...
... kings to govern wrong , " with the pious and loyal inference of the flagrant in- iquity of expelling Tarquin . I am supposing the observer to per- ceive all these accommodating dexterities of reason ; for it were probably absurd to ...
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