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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... vice , This powerful reason ; lest your sons pursue The guilty track , thus plainly marked by you ! For youth is facile , and its yielding will Receives , with fatal ease , the imprint of ill . " " Take heed is a Abundans cautela non ...
... vice , This powerful reason ; lest your sons pursue The guilty track , thus plainly marked by you ! For youth is facile , and its yielding will Receives , with fatal ease , the imprint of ill . " " Take heed is a Abundans cautela non ...
Page 15
... vice is in- separable from it , that we are all apt to be more worldly , more fond of money - making , more close - fisted , more grasping , than is either needful or becoming . " Ad perditam securim manubrium adjicere . Lat . prov ...
... vice is in- separable from it , that we are all apt to be more worldly , more fond of money - making , more close - fisted , more grasping , than is either needful or becoming . " Ad perditam securim manubrium adjicere . Lat . prov ...
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... Vice thrives and lives by concealment . " It is in the nature of foul deeds to delight in darkness . The above translation , however , does not convey the meaning of the passage in the original , which has reference to the disease in ...
... Vice thrives and lives by concealment . " It is in the nature of foul deeds to delight in darkness . The above translation , however , does not convey the meaning of the passage in the original , which has reference to the disease in ...
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... vice was to strengthen the intellect , and to compose the passions , not by braving and insulting the all - powerful , all - wise , and all - merciful Creator , but by an humble , patient inquiry into his works , and by submission to ...
... vice was to strengthen the intellect , and to compose the passions , not by braving and insulting the all - powerful , all - wise , and all - merciful Creator , but by an humble , patient inquiry into his works , and by submission to ...
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... vice . " " For , as when neighboring funerals affright The patient , who indulged his appetite , And bid him spare himself , we often find Another's shame alarms a tender mind . " Aviendo pregonado vino , venden vinagre . Span . prov ...
... vice . " " For , as when neighboring funerals affright The patient , who indulged his appetite , And bid him spare himself , we often find Another's shame alarms a tender mind . " Aviendo pregonado vino , venden vinagre . Span . prov ...
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...