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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brief Bits About Books | 11/2/1923 | See Source »

Greek Literature.--The period of Athenian Supremacy. Herodotus (Books VII and VIII); Aeschylus (Persians); Plutarch (Themistocles). Half-course (first half-year. Mon., Wed., Fri., at 11. Dr. Phoutrides. Students who had planned to take Greek 1a hf. should consult with Professor Gulick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIOUS CHANGES SINCE ISSUE OF PAMPHLET | 9/30/1915 | See Source »

...books added, the following are perhaps the most noteworthy: "New Century Dictionary," North's "Plutarch," "Tudor Bible," "Lives of The Lord Chancellors", "Lives of the Chief Justices." Respectfully submitted, HENRY A. YEOMANS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION AFFAIRS SATISFACTORY | 4/4/1914 | See Source »

...Goethe's "Faust"; Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus"; Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," specially edited by Professor C. W. Bullock; "Letters" of Cicero and Pliny; Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"; Burn's "Tam O'Shanter"; Walton's "Complete Angler" and "Lives" of Donne and Herbert. "Autobiography of St. Augustine"; "Plutarch's "Lives"; Dryden's "Aeneid"; "Canterbury Tales"; "Imitation of Christ," Thomas a Kempis; Dante's "Divine Comedy"; Darwin's "Origin of Species"; "Arabian Nights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Eliot Selects "Harvard Classics" | 6/16/1909 | See Source »

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