A new dictionary of quotations from the Greek, Latin, and modern languages, tr. by the author of 'Live and learn'.1859 |
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... thou alone shalt be my constant care . ' وو Accusare nemo se debet nisi coram Deo . Lat . Law maxim.— " No man is bound to accuse himself , unless it be before God . " No oath is to be administered , whereby any person may be compelled ...
... thou alone shalt be my constant care . ' وو Accusare nemo se debet nisi coram Deo . Lat . Law maxim.— " No man is bound to accuse himself , unless it be before God . " No oath is to be administered , whereby any person may be compelled ...
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... thou thyself art full of sores . " Physician , heal thyself . Aliquando praestat morte jungi , quam vita distrahi . Lat . VALERIUS MAXIMUS .- " It is sometimes , under certain circumstances , better to be joined , united , in death ...
... thou thyself art full of sores . " Physician , heal thyself . Aliquando praestat morte jungi , quam vita distrahi . Lat . VALERIUS MAXIMUS .- " It is sometimes , under certain circumstances , better to be joined , united , in death ...
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... thou pleasing companion of this body , thou fleet- ing thing , that art now deserting it ! whither art thou flying ? To what un- known region ? Thou art all trembling , fearful , and pensive . Now , what is become of thy former wit and ...
... thou pleasing companion of this body , thou fleet- ing thing , that art now deserting it ! whither art thou flying ? To what un- known region ? Thou art all trembling , fearful , and pensive . Now , what is become of thy former wit and ...
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... Thou tramplest upon , insultest , ARCHILO- CHUS , treatest ARCHILOCHUS contumeliously - Thou , thoughtless mortal , presumest to trample upon , insult , ARCHILOCHUS , treat ARCHILOCHUS with contumely [ and thou wilt repent of it , wilt ...
... Thou tramplest upon , insultest , ARCHILO- CHUS , treatest ARCHILOCHUS contumeliously - Thou , thoughtless mortal , presumest to trample upon , insult , ARCHILOCHUS , treat ARCHILOCHUS with contumely [ and thou wilt repent of it , wilt ...
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... thou , O happy Austria , wed , think mainly of wedlock , be it thy care to form matrimonial alliances : for , inasmuch as , the kingdoms which MARS gives to others VENUS gives to thee . " " Archdeacon Coxe , in the preface to his ...
... thou , O happy Austria , wed , think mainly of wedlock , be it thy care to form matrimonial alliances : for , inasmuch as , the kingdoms which MARS gives to others VENUS gives to thee . " " Archdeacon Coxe , in the preface to his ...
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aetas ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called character CICERO CLAUDIAN Compare SHAKSPERE CORNELIUS NEPOS court death dicere everything evil expression facit fear feel folly fool fortune Fr.-The French genius give Greek happy homines homme honour HORACE HORACE.-"The human Ital JUVENAL king labour Latin Law maxim learned live LORD LUCAN LUCRETIUS magna mali manner matter means mihi mind motto Multa nature Nemo never Nihil nisi nulla omnes omnia one's OVID passion PERSIUS person PHAEDRUS philosopher phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet potest prov proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS quae quam quid QUINTILIAN quod quotation rebus rerum risum ROCHEFOUCAULT Roman saepe SALLUST semper SENECA sense sibi signify sine soul speaking sunt TACITUS TERENCE term things thou tibi vice VIRGIL virtue vita wise word writ writing دو وو
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Page 180 - 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 49 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 3 - 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.
Page 143 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
Page 406 - Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia : navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis hic est, Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.
Page 427 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek.
Page 98 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 21 - 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 229 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Page 116 - 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.