A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern LanguagesJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 527 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... writers . A pas de géant . Fr .- " With a giant's stride . " This is a phrase of exaggeration not uncommon with our continental neighbors . They will say , for instance , " We have hitherto advanced with a slow pace , but slowly ; but ...
... writers . A pas de géant . Fr .- " With a giant's stride . " This is a phrase of exaggeration not uncommon with our continental neighbors . They will say , for instance , " We have hitherto advanced with a slow pace , but slowly ; but ...
Pagina 14
... writing , the deed is rendered void by the compulsion . Actus non facit reum , nisi mens sit rea . Lat . Law maxim.- " The act does not make a man guilty , unless the mind be also guilty . " Unless the intent be criminal , the deed ...
... writing , the deed is rendered void by the compulsion . Actus non facit reum , nisi mens sit rea . Lat . Law maxim.- " The act does not make a man guilty , unless the mind be also guilty . " Unless the intent be criminal , the deed ...
Pagina 28
... writer intimates that he is not without his personal feelings and attachments , but that nothing can make him swerve from the sacred interests of truth . Amicus usque ad aras . Lat .- " A friend even to the altar . " One who will ...
... writer intimates that he is not without his personal feelings and attachments , but that nothing can make him swerve from the sacred interests of truth . Amicus usque ad aras . Lat .- " A friend even to the altar . " One who will ...
Pagina 30
... writing backwards- in which sense Amor [ Love ] is an anagram of Roma [ Rome ] , and evil of live : but metagrammatism implies a transposition of letters , which has become the popular sense of anagrammatism . A metagram , then , is the ...
... writing backwards- in which sense Amor [ Love ] is an anagram of Roma [ Rome ] , and evil of live : but metagrammatism implies a transposition of letters , which has become the popular sense of anagrammatism . A metagram , then , is the ...
Pagina 31
... writers . Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus . Lat . CICERO . - " Cultivation is as necessary to the mind , as food is to the body . ” Animo et facto . Lat .- " Verily and indeed ; really and truly . " Animo vidit ; ingenio ...
... writers . Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus . Lat . CICERO . - " Cultivation is as necessary to the mind , as food is to the body . ” Animo et facto . Lat .- " Verily and indeed ; really and truly . " Animo vidit ; ingenio ...
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aetas amor ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called character CICERO CLAUDIAN court death dicere EPICURUS evil exemplum expression facit fear feel fool fortune Fr.-The French genius give Greek happy homines homme honor HORACE 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 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 SHAKSPEARE sibi signify sine soul Span speak sunt TACITUS TERENCE term thing thou tibi truth vice VIRGIL virtue vita wise word writ writing
Populaire passages
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 131 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Pagina 147 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
Pagina 235 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Pagina 227 - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum : Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.
Pagina 327 - O Thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast, With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God ! we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end...
Pagina 160 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Pagina 7 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of • it. Honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism.