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headmasters with preposters in a public school, based on the same system of high aims and duties corresponding to rights.
C1.23, init.Cf.Louis Napoleon in Browning's poem [_Prince Hohensteil-Schwangau_].
C1.23, med.

The Magians, the Persian order of priests.

Yet we have heard of them throughout.
C1.27.A very true saying and very nice the feeling it gives us towards Xenophon.

We think of him with his wife and his little sons and his friends and their friends.
C1.28.How true of women! C1.33.A reduplication of the description in Bk.

I., and also a summing-up of Xenophon's own earthly paradise--quite Tennysonian.
C1.37.An important point or principle in Xenophon's political theory--indeed the key and tone of it: no one has a right to command except by virtue of personal superiority.
C1.40 foll.


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