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Page 23
... able to discern transactions about the time of , and for the most part after , their hap- pening . My good father , who delighted in the Pilgrim's Progress , and mountainous places , took shipping , with his wife , for Scotland , and ...
... able to discern transactions about the time of , and for the most part after , their hap- pening . My good father , who delighted in the Pilgrim's Progress , and mountainous places , took shipping , with his wife , for Scotland , and ...
Page 48
... able to know , and determine certainly , what is right and wrong in life ? Phil . As easily as you distinguish a circle from a square , or light from darkness . Look , Horatio , into the sacred book of nature , read your own nature 48 ...
... able to know , and determine certainly , what is right and wrong in life ? Phil . As easily as you distinguish a circle from a square , or light from darkness . Look , Horatio , into the sacred book of nature , read your own nature 48 ...
Page 50
... able to serve your friends ; you will raise your family ; you will extend the bounds of your country ; you will be known not only in Athens , but through all Greece ; and perhaps your renown will fly even to the barbarous nations , as ...
... able to serve your friends ; you will raise your family ; you will extend the bounds of your country ; you will be known not only in Athens , but through all Greece ; and perhaps your renown will fly even to the barbarous nations , as ...
Page 51
... able to settle another in its place . " " I protest , " answered Glaucon , ' I have never thought of this . " " Tell ine , at least , the expenses of the republic ; for no doubt you mean to retrench the superfluous . " " I have never ...
... able to settle another in its place . " " I protest , " answered Glaucon , ' I have never thought of this . " " Tell ine , at least , the expenses of the republic ; for no doubt you mean to retrench the superfluous . " " I have never ...
Page 53
... able hitherto to go- vern the mind of your uncle ; and do you now be- lieve yourself able to govern the minds of all the Athenians , and his among the rest ? Take heed , my dear Glaucon , take heed , lest too great a desire of power ...
... able hitherto to go- vern the mind of your uncle ; and do you now be- lieve yourself able to govern the minds of all the Athenians , and his among the rest ? Take heed , my dear Glaucon , take heed , lest too great a desire of power ...
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