The book The Lake of Como Its History Art And Archaeology was written by author T W M Thomas William May Lund Here you can read free online of The Lake of Como Its History Art And Archaeology book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Lake of Como Its History Art And Archaeology a good or bad book?
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" This personage had such a shabby imagi- nation and so poor a hope of immortality, that he left his fortune of about four thousand pounds for the erection of this memorial of himself. There was a nobler philosophy of immortality in the advice which Pliny ^ gave to Rufus : — " Leave mean and sordid cares to others, and devote your- self to culture in your profound and rich seclusion. Make this your business, your leisure, your work and rest, your thought in wakeful hours, and the motive of your... dreams. Mould and forge something, which may be for ever your own. The rest of your property will pass from master to master, when you are gone ; but this, when once it is yours, will be yours for ever. " In the following letter to Caninius, Pliny describes the natural scenery of the Lake in his day, and will touch a chord of sympathy in the hearts of those busy men whose ^ It will save disappointment and some energy to remember, that the Villa can be entered only from the water side. The door in the rear of the grounds is closed .
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