you see, master copperfield, said he, as he forced himself upon my company for a turn in the doctors garden, where a person loves, a person is a little jealous - leastways, anxious to keep an eye on the beloved one.
i came of my own accord with yulia mihailovna's permission, because i wanted to learn this unhappy woman's story and to be of use to her.
comparison of philopoemen with flamininus first, then, as for the greatness of the benefits which titus conferred on greece, neither philopoemen, nor many braver men than he, can make good the parallel.
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in this present age and country it would be very dangerous to give the slightest addition to a force already perilously great.
and so in this fifth book of my parallel lives, in giving an account of demosthenes and cicero, my comparison of their natural dispositions and their characters will be formed upon their actions and their lives as statesmen, and i shall not pretend to criticize their orations one against the other, to show which of the two was the more charming or the more powerful speaker.
neither was it easy to meet or visit him without a crowd of people about him; he was most pleased to make his appearance before large numbers at once, as though he wished to maintain in this way his state and majesty, and as if he held himself bound to preserve his dignity from contact with the addresses and conversation of common people.
among them was a portfolio, at which he remembered he had looked with curiosity on going in, and a pack, not very large, of american leather.
.. is it some sort of a prophecy, father? be sure it's by way of a prophecy, said some one in the crowd.
_'' i have been told by one of the companions of this voyage, that heartily as he entered throughout into their social enjoyments, they all perceived him, when inspecting for the first time scenes of remarkable grandeur, to be in such an abstracted and excited mood, that they felt it would be the kindest and discreetest plan to leave him to himself.
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