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... follows , a fortiori , that a weak and bad man must be more dangerous . A fronte praecipitium , a tergo lupi . Lat . prov.- - " A precipice in front of you , and wolves behind you , in your rear . " Go forward , and fall : go backward ...
... follows , a fortiori , that a weak and bad man must be more dangerous . A fronte praecipitium , a tergo lupi . Lat . prov.- - " A precipice in front of you , and wolves behind you , in your rear . " Go forward , and fall : go backward ...
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... follow , and so minutes by . " Assignat . Fr. - The paper money of France after the Revolution of the last century . " Is there a debt which presses them , issue assignats . ” BURKE . Assistance obligée . Fr .- " Legal relief , " to the ...
... follow , and so minutes by . " Assignat . Fr. - The paper money of France after the Revolution of the last century . " Is there a debt which presses them , issue assignats . ” BURKE . Assistance obligée . Fr .- " Legal relief , " to the ...
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... follows gold , and soon will there be an end of every modest restraint . " The spirit of venality appears to have loosened all the bonds of society . Auspicium melioris aevi . Lat .- " A pledge of better times . " Aussitôt meurt veau ...
... follows gold , and soon will there be an end of every modest restraint . " The spirit of venality appears to have loosened all the bonds of society . Auspicium melioris aevi . Lat .- " A pledge of better times . " Aussitôt meurt veau ...
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... follows [ is the necessary consequence , result , to ] those writers who aim at too great conciseness in their compositions . 66 Βριάρεως φαινεται ων λαγως . Gr . prov .- " Though a hare , he would forsooth wish to be considered a ...
... follows [ is the necessary consequence , result , to ] those writers who aim at too great conciseness in their compositions . 66 Βριάρεως φαινεται ων λαγως . Gr . prov .- " Though a hare , he would forsooth wish to be considered a ...
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... follow . " This is one of the maxims of the Epicurean school , which recommended , but no doubt unwisely , the immediate enjoyment of pleasure in preference to remote speculation . N.B. Addressed by the poet to a woman , which ac ...
... follow . " This is one of the maxims of the Epicurean school , which recommended , but no doubt unwisely , the immediate enjoyment of pleasure in preference to remote speculation . N.B. Addressed by the poet to a woman , which ac ...
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amor ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called character CICERO CLAUDIAN CORNELIUS NEPOS court death dicere evil exemplum expression facit fear feel fool fortune Fr.-The French genius give Greek happy homines homme honor HORACE HORACE.-"The human Ital JUVENAL king labor Latin Law maxim learned live LORD LUCAN LUCRETIUS magna mali manner matter means ment mihi mind motto multa n'est nature nemo never nihil nisi nulla omnes omnia one's opinion OVID passion PERSIUS person PHAEDRUS philosopher phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet potest prov proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS quae quam quid QUINTILIAN quod quotation rebus rerum risum Roman saepe Scots law semper SENECA sense sibi signify sine soul speak sunt TACITUS TERENCE term thing thou tibi truth vice VIRGIL virtue vita wise word writ writing
Popular passages
Page 25 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain.
Page 53 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 184 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 303 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 162 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 120 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 235 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Page 32 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Page 260 - YE are to take care that this child be brought to the bishop, to be confirmed by him, so soon as he can say the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, in the vulgar tongue, and be further instructed in the Church Catechism set forth for that purpose.
Page 432 - — the latter four times repeated. Bathyllus owned himself unable to fill them out; and Virgil proved himself the author by completing them as follows : — " Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores : Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves ; Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves ; Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes ; Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.