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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... Happy I esteem those whom Providence has distinguished with the ability to do things worthy of being written or to write things worthy to be read ; but most happy are they who are blessed with both these uncommon talents , in which ...
... Happy I esteem those whom Providence has distinguished with the ability to do things worthy of being written or to write things worthy to be read ; but most happy are they who are blessed with both these uncommon talents , in which ...
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... happy one's self , but bring happiness also to someone to whom one owes it . And then add to all that suffering , the one which per- haps you will not understand : when the nerves of a man are weakened by an infinite quantity of anxiety ...
... happy one's self , but bring happiness also to someone to whom one owes it . And then add to all that suffering , the one which per- haps you will not understand : when the nerves of a man are weakened by an infinite quantity of anxiety ...
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... happy & comfortable . • Unlike the real angels we have no fore - knowledge & cannot tell what is to happen to our dear ones on earth . Next to the great feast days , when we sing choruses by divisions in the upper heavens , our chief ...
... happy & comfortable . • Unlike the real angels we have no fore - knowledge & cannot tell what is to happen to our dear ones on earth . Next to the great feast days , when we sing choruses by divisions in the upper heavens , our chief ...
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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