 | Plutarch - Greece - 1859 - 440 pages
...commenced writing biographies; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own ; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort...which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life. Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily living and associating together; we receive, as it... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1859 - 434 pages
...commenced writing biographies; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own ; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort...which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life. Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily living and associating together; we receive, as it... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1860 - 552 pages
...first commenced writing biographies; but I find myself going on and attaching myself to it for my own ; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how, more or less, to adjust and adorn my own life. Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but a daily living... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1861 - 604 pages
...primum mobile of literary exertions in both. The virtues of these great men, Plutarch says — ' Servo me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life. Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily living and associating together ; wo receive, as it... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 600 pages
...•primum mobile of literary exertions in both. The virtues of these great men, Plutarch says — ' ' Serve me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life. Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily living and associating together ; we receive, as it... | |
 | Plutarch - 1870 - 540 pages
...commenced writing biographies ; but I find myself going on and attaching myself to it for my own ; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how, more or less, to adjust and adorn my own life. Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but a daily living... | |
 | Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough - Greece - 1876 - 810 pages
...commenced writing biographies ; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own ; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort...•which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life. Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily living and associating together ; we receive, as it... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1878 - 480 pages
...commenced writing biographies, but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own ; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort...which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life. Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily living and associating together; we receive, as it... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1880 - 626 pages
...commenced writing biographies ; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own ; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in whicn I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life. Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1888 - 358 pages
...commenced writing biographies ; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own ; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort...which I may see how to -adjust and adorn my own life. Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily living a,nd associating together; we receive, as it... | |
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IT was for the sake of others that I first commenced writing biographies; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own ; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn... 
