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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, a New Tr., With Notes, by R. Graves
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus a New Tr With Notes by R Graves Author:Marcus Aurelius Antoninus General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1792 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: MEDITATIONS. BOOK I. ). i. TTROM the example of my grand- A/ father Verus, I acquired a virtuous difpofition of mind, and an habitual command over my temper. 2. From the character which I have heard and from what I myfelf remember of The good Emperor begins, with great modefly and Simplicity, by gratefully recollecting thofe on whofe model and inftnictions he had formed his moral character. As KoAo0Ei is not found in any other author, it i difficult to afcertain the precife meaning here, and to reconcile it with vQos in the 7th feclion. This fenfe was fuggefted by two gentlemen well known in the literary world. mymy own father, I have learned to behave with modefty, yet with a manly firmnefs, on all occafions. 3. My motherf I have imitated in her piety and in her generous temper, and have been taught not only to abftain from doing any wicked action, but from indulging a thought of that kind, By her alfo I was habituated to a fimple and abftemious way of life; very far from the luxury of a fumptuous table. 4. To my great-grandfather I am obliged, both for permitting me to attend the publick recitals and declamations in the Rhetorick fchools, J and alfo for procuring me the beft mafters at home; and for Annius Venis, to diftinguifh him from Antoninus Pius, who adopted him. He died when our author wa$ ery young. f Domitia Calvilla Lucilla. J Thofe who talk of his " not running the rifle of a publick fchool" contradift the truth of hiftory. " Fre- V'uiUvit et dedamatorum fcholas publicas." Capitolin. makingmaking me fenfible, that one ought not to fpare any expence on thefe occafions. 5. F...« less