Calendar of Dalhousie College and University

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The University, 1884

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Page xxviii - Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus, nunc Saliaribus ornare pulvinar deorum tempus erat dapibus, sodales. antehac nefas depromere Caecubum cellis avitis, dum Capitolio regina dementes ruinas funus et imperio parabat contaminato cum grege turpium morbo virorum...
Page xviii - Second was celebrated. But, if we must make our choice, we shall, like Bassanio in the play, turn from the specious caskets which contain only the Death's head and the Fool's head, and fix on the plain leaden chest which conceals the treasure.
Page xiii - Timor et Minae scandunt eodem quo dominus, neque decedit aerata triremi et post equitem sedet atra Cura.
Page lvii - The parallelograms about the diameter of any parallelogram are similar to the whole, and to one another. Let ABCD be a parallelogram, of which the diameter is AC ; and EG...
Page 8 - ... the said college shall have liberty and faculty of taking the degrees of bachelor, master and doctor, in the several arts and faculties...
Page lv - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
Page xviii - What then is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith from the beginning gives assurance) a something that pertains not to this wild death-element of Time ; that triumphs over Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more.
Page vii - PROP. X. THEOR. IF a straight line be bisected, and produced to any point, the square of the whole line thus produced, and the square of the part of it produced, are together double of the square of half the line bisected, and of the square of the line made up of the half and the part produced.
Page xiii - Phrygius lapis nee purpurarum sidere clarior delenit usus nee Falerna vitis Achaemeniumque costum, cur invidendis postibus et novo sublime ritu moliar atrium?
Page xl - You found them pleased with the novelty of a young prince, whose countenance promised even more than his words, and loyal to you not only from principle but passion. It was not a cold profession of allegiance to the first magistrate, but a partial animated attachment to a favourite prince, the native of their country.

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