Word: plutarch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Many Frenchmen have written about Mirabeau?notably Louis Barthou whom Author Jouvenel, generous, believes "almost conclusive." Orderly, perceptively, amusedly, with a good eye for a subject's public-private proportions, Author Jouvenel renders this portrait as a biography in the tradition, though not the manner, of Plutarch, Suetonius, Maurois...
Modern skeptics, of course, paid no attention. But the great historian, Plutarch, would not have failed to record it as an event possibly of grave significance to the state...
...Elizabethan Translators: North and Plutarch", Professor Lowes, Fogg Lecture Room...
...Plutarch Jr. Sirs: ... I consider the department of LETTERS the best thing in the magazine. This department individualizes the oddities of people and serves to remind me that the people among whom I live have their counterparts in other parts of the world. Prom my point of view this department might be extended a little without losing its flavor...
...gentleman who entertains such supreme confidence in them all laying down sooner or later. May we not have more of such? A series of such letters compiled and issued under one cover might easily carry to posterity the same lessons as our generation may get from Plutarch's Lives. I maintain that this notion is not so farfetched...