Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 66
tories ofhis boyhood, — how hewould have been willingto run at the Olympicraces if he might havekings for his rivals, — howhe complained that Philipwas winning towns and battles too fast, and wouldleave nothing for those who came after him to do, —how he astonished the Persian ambassadors by… … Alexander the Great.(From cast in British Museum.) 44 Leaders of Men for his gallant boy. He delighted in Homer, studiedunder Aristotle, and wrote one day to his tutor, in afit of enthusiasm, what was little verified in after life,that he had rather surpass the rest of mankind inthe sublimer…
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