![]() The twenty-six Essays in this volume I have had the invaluable help Touch on the same or on kindred subjects.Īs is well known, the text of the Moralia is veryĬorrupt, and the reading very doubtful, in many places. Such a manner as to enable the reader to read together such as "The Ethics of the Hearth and Home." I have grouped these Essays in Present volume consists of the twenty-six "Ethical Essays," whichĪre, in my opinion, the cream of the Moralia, and constituteĪ highly interesting series of treatises on what might be called Moralia, forming a volume in Bohn's Classical Library. King, Senior Fellow of TrinityĬollege, Cambridge, translated the six "Theosophical Essays" of the "How kind Arcisilaus the philosopher was unto Apelles the painter, For in a letter to his uncle written from Cambridge,Īsking for books or money for books, he makes the following remark: Think it was a work read in the University course generally in Moralia, too, when at Cambridge, so that one cannot but "On Restraining Anger," and "On Contentedness of Mind," provingĬonclusively what a storehouse he found the Moralia, we haveĮvidence that that most delightful poet, Robert Herrick, read the Three other Essays in this volume, namely, those "On Curiosity," His Sermon called "The Marriage Ring," or the large and copious use For, not to mention the wonderful way in which theįamous Jeremy Taylor has taken the cream of "Conjugal Precepts" in Largely read at our Universities, at least at the University ofĬambridge. Seventeenth century I cannot but think the Moralia were Solid learning he seriously settled himself to read," quotes as ![]() Of his Essays that "Plutarch and Seneca were the only two books of Who was a great lover of Plutarch, and who observes in one passage In older days the Moralia were more valued. Themselves scholars." 1 Habent etiam sua fata libelli. Paley "to be practicallyĪlmost unknown to most persons in Britain, even to those who call Various Essays on various subjects (only twenty-six of which areĭirectly ethical, though they have given their name to the ![]() The Moralia, on the other hand, consisting of Great indeed was their power at the period of the French Have often been translated, and have always been a popular work. Pliny, has written two works still extant, the well-known 50, and was a contemporary of Tacitus and Plutarch, who was born at Chæronea in Bœotia, Removed to improve the reading and only obvious spelling A couple of commas and periods have been added or Spelling of proper names isĭifferent in different pages and some words occur in Transcriber's note: The original book uses often colons Sometime Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, PLUTARCH'S MORALS ETHICAL ESSAYS TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND INDEX BY ARTHUR RICHARD SHILLETO, M.A. Produced by Paul Murray, Turgut Dincer and the OnlineīOHN'S CLASSICAL LIBRARY PLUTARCH'S MORALS GEORGE BELL & SONS,ĬAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO. ![]() *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PLUTARCH'S MORALS *** With this eBook or online at Title: Plutarch's Morals Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Plutarch's Morals, by Plutarch The Project Gutenberg eBook of Plutarch's Morals translated
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