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  • Thou appearest to me a very strange compound; at one time cutting off the ear of Malchus, and at another even denying me.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven.

    Letter to a Friend 2007

  • Let the court and philosophy now be to thee step-mother and mother: return to philosophy frequently and repose in her, through whom what thou meetest with in the court appears to thee tolerable, and thou appearest tolerable in the court.

    The Meditations 2004

  • Thou appearest to all the Greeks to be fond of thy wife; (and this I say, not stealing under thee imperceptibly with flattery;) by her I implore thee; O wretched me for my woes, to what have I come? but why must I suffer thus?

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • But to me, be assured, thou neither appearest for my sake, nor for the sake of the Grecians, to have killed this man thy guest, but that thou mightest possess the gold in thy palace.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • Thou appearest in every Yuga in the form called month and season and half-year and year, and art the cause of both creation and dissolution.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Brahmana, as thou practisest with assiduousness those divine, ancient, and eternal virtues which are so difficult of attainment even by pure-minded persons, thou appearest (to me) like a divine being.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • O most dear, how noble thou appearest to thy father!

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, although he hates what thou appearest to be.

    The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various

  • Sometimes thou appearest to my affrighted Imagination, sweating in the Mines of

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

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