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... CATO THE CENSOR , ---- 305 ARISTIDES AND CATO COMPARED , - PHILOPOEMEN , TITUS QUINCTIUS FLAMINIUS , PHILOPOMEN AND FLAMINIUS COMPARED , -S - 336 343 364 388 ... PLUTARCH's LIVES . FABIUS MAXIMUS . SUCH were the.
... CATO THE CENSOR , ---- 305 ARISTIDES AND CATO COMPARED , - PHILOPOEMEN , TITUS QUINCTIUS FLAMINIUS , PHILOPOMEN AND FLAMINIUS COMPARED , -S - 336 343 364 388 ... PLUTARCH's LIVES . FABIUS MAXIMUS . SUCH were the.
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... Cato wanted a foldier to be ) not only dreadful for the thunder of his arm , but of voice too , and had an afpect which ftruck his adversaries with terror and difmay . Many Romans then crowding about him , and being ready to fecond him ...
... Cato wanted a foldier to be ) not only dreadful for the thunder of his arm , but of voice too , and had an afpect which ftruck his adversaries with terror and difmay . Many Romans then crowding about him , and being ready to fecond him ...
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... Cato , and the other to Ælius Tubero , a man of fuperior integrity , and who of all the Romans , knew beft how to bear poverty . There were no lefs than fixteen of the Ælian family and name , who had only a fmall house , and one farm ...
... Cato , and the other to Ælius Tubero , a man of fuperior integrity , and who of all the Romans , knew beft how to bear poverty . There were no lefs than fixteen of the Ælian family and name , who had only a fmall house , and one farm ...
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... Cato , and fon in law to Æmilius , after furprifing acts of valor , unfor tunately loft his fword . As he was a youth who had re- ceived all the advantages of education , and who owed to fo illuftrious a father extraordinary inftances ...
... Cato , and fon in law to Æmilius , after furprifing acts of valor , unfor tunately loft his fword . As he was a youth who had re- ceived all the advantages of education , and who owed to fo illuftrious a father extraordinary inftances ...
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... to fhrink under every reflection upon his character , though it fpeaks a delicacy of temper , has nothing in it of true greatness of mind . PELOPIDAS . CATO the elder , hearing fomebody commend a TIMOLEON AND PAULUS EMILIUS COMPARED . 195.
... to fhrink under every reflection upon his character , though it fpeaks a delicacy of temper , has nothing in it of true greatness of mind . PELOPIDAS . CATO the elder , hearing fomebody commend a TIMOLEON AND PAULUS EMILIUS COMPARED . 195.
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Page 239 - Yet Archimedes had such a depth of understanding, such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that, though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man" endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing.
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Page 238 - And, in truth, all the rest of the Syracusans were no more than the body in the batteries of Archimedes, while he himself was the informing soul.