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 Brockway, Wallace & Winer, Bart Keith, ed. |
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Page 142
... died himself of the plague ; till the nights ( though much lengthened ) are grown too short to con- ceal the burials of those that died the day before , people being thereby constrained to borrow daylight for that service ; lastly ...
... died himself of the plague ; till the nights ( though much lengthened ) are grown too short to con- ceal the burials of those that died the day before , people being thereby constrained to borrow daylight for that service ; lastly ...
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... died , as he vowed , on his feet . " My poor father , " Charlotte related , “ naturally thought more of his only son than of his daughters . " Soon Emily began to fade . Until the very day she died , she kept at her work , refusing to ...
... died , as he vowed , on his feet . " My poor father , " Charlotte related , “ naturally thought more of his only son than of his daughters . " Soon Emily began to fade . Until the very day she died , she kept at her work , refusing to ...
Page 423
... died 2 hours after we received him , one compound Fracture just as we were getting him into Bed - in all , twenty - four cases died on the day of landing . The Dysentery Cases have died at the rate of one in two . Then the day of ...
... died 2 hours after we received him , one compound Fracture just as we were getting him into Bed - in all , twenty - four cases died on the day of landing . The Dysentery Cases have died at the rate of one in two . Then the day 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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