A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages: Translated Into English, and Occasionally Accompanied with Illustrations, Historical Poetical, and Anecdotal, with an Extensive Index, Referring to Every Important Word |
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... cause , law- suit , is lost , there has been enough of words , enough has been said . " Do not discuss what has already been decided - settled . 66 A chaque oiseau Son nid est beau . Fr. prov.- ' Every bird thinks its own nest , finds ...
... cause , law- suit , is lost , there has been enough of words , enough has been said . " Do not discuss what has already been decided - settled . 66 A chaque oiseau Son nid est beau . Fr. prov.- ' Every bird thinks its own nest , finds ...
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... cause to the effect : A posteriori " means , from the latter , from the effect to the cause . These are phrases , which are used in logical argument , to denote a reference to its different modes . The schoolmen distinguished them into ...
... cause to the effect : A posteriori " means , from the latter , from the effect to the cause . These are phrases , which are used in logical argument , to denote a reference to its different modes . The schoolmen distinguished them into ...
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... cause new disputes , fresh strife . " The English proverb is , Short reckonings make long friends . Even reckoning keeps long friends . " A verbis legis non est recedendum . Lat . Law maxim .- " There is no departing from the words of ...
... cause new disputes , fresh strife . " The English proverb is , Short reckonings make long friends . Even reckoning keeps long friends . " A verbis legis non est recedendum . Lat . Law maxim .- " There is no departing from the words of ...
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... cause of the revolted Netherlands , and her admiral , Sir Francis Drake , had taken some of the Spanish settlements in America . To avenge these injuries , the Invincible Armada of 150 ships of war , 27,000 men , and 3000 pieces of ...
... cause of the revolted Netherlands , and her admiral , Sir Francis Drake , had taken some of the Spanish settlements in America . To avenge these injuries , the Invincible Armada of 150 ships of war , 27,000 men , and 3000 pieces of ...
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... cause . " A lord of the manor , though having cognizance of all kinds of pleas , cannot hold plea where he himself is a party . Aliquid inane . Lat .- " An indescribable , unaccountable , kind or degree of silliness ; trifling ; folly ...
... cause . " A lord of the manor , though having cognizance of all kinds of pleas , cannot hold plea where he himself is a party . Aliquid inane . Lat .- " An indescribable , unaccountable , kind or degree of silliness ; trifling ; folly ...
Common terms and phrases
affect ancient appear applied bear become better body called cause character comes common Compare court danger death equal existence expression fear feel follow fortune French frequently give given Greek hand happy head heart honor hope HORACE human Ital Italy judge kind king labor land learned live look LORD manner matter maxim means mind nature never object once one's opinion original OVID pass PERSIUS person phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet present prov quae quam quid quod reason Roman SENECA sense signify sometimes speak TERENCE term thing thou true truth vice VIRGIL virtue whole wise wish writing
Popular passages
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 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 201 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Page 147 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
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 235 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Page 227 - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum : Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.
Page 437 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet ' Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum ' Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
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 201 - ... huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...