A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations, which are in Daily Use: Taken from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages; Translated Into English, with Illustrations, Historical and IdiomaticA. Finley, 1818 - 322 Seiten |
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amici amor animo applied atque bien C'est CICERO CLAUDIAN court crime Custos morum danger Deus dicere docet equal exemplum facit fait faith faults fear fides fool fortuna fortune frequently give guilt habet hæc happy homines homme honour HORACE human Ital jure JUVENAL labour Law Lat Law Maxim licet live LUCAN malis ment mihi Milonius mind motto multa nature Nemo neque never nihil nisi Nulla nunc nunquam omnes omnia omnis OVID passion PERSIUS person phrase PLAUTUS poet potest praise Prov Proverb qu'on quæ quam quid Quis quod quotation RACE racter rebus ridicule risum ROCHEFOUCAULT Roman sæpe SALLUST semper SENECA sibi sine sion sometimes speak sunt SYRUS TACITUS TERENCE thing tibi tion truth vice vincit VIRG VIRGIL virtue Virtutis vita vitium vult whilst wise wish words writ
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Seite 72 - 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.
Seite 4 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners.
Seite 1 - The ADVANTAGE and NECESSITY of the CHRISTIAN REVELATION, shewn from the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World...
Seite 269 - In solving doubts, the maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas [use your own property in such a manner as not to injure that of another...
Seite 300 - ... quo didicisse, nisi hoc fermentum et quae semel intus innata est rupto iecore exierit caprificus?' 25 en pallor seniumque! o mores, usque adeone scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? 'at pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est." ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse pro nihilo pendes?
Seite 61 - From the law." — These opposite phrases are best explained together. In some instances, the penalty attaches on the offender at the instant when- the fact is committed; in others, not until he is convicted by law. In the former case, he is guilty de facto; in the latter, dejure.
Seite 318 - I can scarcely call these things my own," (alluding to ancestry.) Vixere fortes ante Jlgamemnona Multi: sed omnes illachrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longd Node, carent quia vate sacro. Lat. HORACE. " Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to long oblivion, because they are without a sacred bard,
Seite 31 - Pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier hie est. Lat. PERSIUS. " It is pleasant to be pointed at with the finger, and to have it said, 'There goes the man.
Seite 237 - We smile, as the satirist justly observes, at follies related under feigned names, when we should smart if they were linked with our own. Quid Bomcefaciam? Jlfentiri nescio. Lat. JUVENAL. " What should I do at Rome ? I cannot lie.
Seite 36 - The world of fashion. Beaux esprits. Fr. — " Gay spirits." — Men of wit." Bella femina che ride, vuol dir, borsa che piange. Ital. Prov. — "The smiles of a pretty woman are* the tears of the purse.