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The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr.

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hear, is now in perfect health, is indefensible. Non-restrictive relative clauses are, in accordance with this rule, set off by commas. The audience, which had at first been indif

Cicero - Plutarch's Lives

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for the benefit of his health. And indeed he was lean and meager, and had such a weakness in his stomach, that he could take nothing but a spare and thin diet, and that not till l

Saint Seraphim of Sarov

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was quickly restored to health. Later St. Seraphim related that after the Eucharist had been served, that the Theotokos appeared to him surrounded by light indescribable, accompan

88 Precepts

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is devoid of spiritual health and moral character, then government and unprincipled men will fill the vacancy. Therefore, freedom prospers in moral values and tyranny thrives in m

📘 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Translation by Gregory Hays.

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Marcus was in declining health, and the revolt of Cassius had only underlined the need to make arrangements for the succession. Faustina had borne at least thirteen children, many
Read for free Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the book by the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, in an English translation by Gregory Hays.

On Dreams by Aristotle

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are in excellent health, and know the facts of the case perfectly well, the sun, nevertheless, appears to them to be only a foot wide. Now, whether the presentative faculty of the

The Secret History of the Court of Justinian ByProcopius

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to take care of his health, and had never had any experience of ill-treatment or discomfort of any kind, yet he never revealed any of Belisarius's secrets. But afterwards all that
The Secret History of the Court of Justinian By Procopius. Literally And Completely Translated From The Greek For The First Time. Privately Printed For The Athenian Society MDCCCXC

Madame Roland, Makers Of History, by John S. C. Abbott.

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jeweler. Her mother's health now began rapidly to decline. A stroke of palsy deprived her of her accustomed elasticity of spirits, and, secluding herself from society, she became

Letter to Lord Chandos

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I hoped to regain my health. But I was unable to find my way to them. These ideas, I understood them well: I saw their wonderful interplay rise before me like magnificent fountain

A History of Art for Beginners and Students, by Clara Erskine Clement.

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value upon physical health. Alcamenes represented him as a sort of humanized Zeus or Jupiter. Of the Asclepius heads found at Melos we may regard this one given here as a free cop

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I, by Thomas Carlyle et al.</titl

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—Mrs. Carlyle's ill-health.—His own need of rest.—John Sterling; his regard for Emerson.—Emerson's Oration on the American Scholar.—Proposed collection of his own Miscellanies. XX

Thomas Carlyle's "Signs of the Times"

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a Disease, we again as Health; so far there is a difference; but in our first principle we are at one. To what extent theological Unbelief, we mean intellectual dissent from the C


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