Word: plutarch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen. Here I sit down to solve the "Why and the Wherefore, and if not why-not," of the euclitic 'thee' in 'prithee'. Since I am, of course, posted in advance of the questions which are going to be asked, I am also ready to distinguish between Plato, Pluto, Plutarch, Pliny, and Petrarch, and if necessary to write a limerick...
...sentient about 1718. He is the young- est of a Massachusetts chandler's 17 children; cheerful, robust, precocious. He dares let himself be towed across a pond by his kite. He reads Locke, Defoe and the Spectator?authors of the Age .of Reason ?besides Pilgrim's Progress and Plutarch. His publisher-brother is jailed for sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author of the articles runs the Courant's circulation up to a dizzy 40, sorely vexing the Rev. Cotton Mather. His brother, out of jail, jealous, beats him. He quits...
...Plutarch's Lives." This set consisting of five volumes printed on a fine quality white paper from the Harper & Brothers plates and bound strongly in red cloth with paper labels, is the translation called Dryden's and is corrected from the Greek and revised by a. H. Clough. The work has Dr. Wm. Smith's historical notes and is illustrated. It may be obtained for $9.00 postpaid...