The Meditations Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Newly Translated From The Greek

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Excerpt from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Newly Translated From the Greek; With Notes, and an Account of His Life Judging that thefe divine fenti' ments of antoninus, may be of fome advantage to many who have riot accefs to them, while they are kept in the learned languages, under took to make them as plain as the fub jeets would admit. Fome ofthefe me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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