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... and easily cured , and proceed from the carelessness of tutors or want of 1 A fragment from the " Dictys " of Euripides . 26 Republ . " v . 463 , F. sq . C obedience to preceptors ; but the faults of young men ON EDUCATION . 17.
... and easily cured , and proceed from the carelessness of tutors or want of 1 A fragment from the " Dictys " of Euripides . 26 Republ . " v . 463 , F. sq . C obedience to preceptors ; but the faults of young men ON EDUCATION . 17.
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Ethical Essays Plutarch Arthur Richard Shilleto. obedience to preceptors ; but the faults of young men are often grave and serious , as gluttony , and robbing their fathers , and dice , and revellings , and drinking - bouts , and ...
Ethical Essays Plutarch Arthur Richard Shilleto. obedience to preceptors ; but the faults of young men are often grave and serious , as gluttony , and robbing their fathers , and dice , and revellings , and drinking - bouts , and ...
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... faults , or if they are angry must soon cool down . For it is better for a father to be hot - tempered than sullen , for to continue hostile and irreconcilable looks like hating one's son . And it is good to seem not to notice some faults ...
... faults , or if they are angry must soon cool down . For it is better for a father to be hot - tempered than sullen , for to continue hostile and irreconcilable looks like hating one's son . And it is good to seem not to notice some faults ...
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... faults while they themselves commit the same , are really their own accusers , if they know it not , under their sons ' name ; and those who live a depraved life have no right to censure their slaves , far less their sons . And besides ...
... faults while they themselves commit the same , are really their own accusers , if they know it not , under their sons ' name ; and those who live a depraved life have no right to censure their slaves , far less their sons . And besides ...
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... fault in any in- equality of age in marriages , seeing that he gave his own wife Megara in marriage to Iolaus , though he was only sixteen and she three - and - thirty . ' 99 1 66 § x . As the conversation was going on , our father said ...
... fault in any in- equality of age in marriages , seeing that he gave his own wife Megara in marriage to Iolaus , though he was only sixteen and she three - and - thirty . ' 99 1 66 § x . As the conversation was going on , our father said ...
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