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Page iii
... Cicero. ΤΟ HIS FRIEND , J. N. REYNOLDS , ESQ . AS A TESTIMONIAL OF REGARD FOR TALENT , INTEGRITY , AND DECISION OF CHARACTER THIS WORK IS SINCERELY INSCRIBED , BY THE EDITOR , PREFACE . THE present edition of Cicero contains the four.
... Cicero. ΤΟ HIS FRIEND , J. N. REYNOLDS , ESQ . AS A TESTIMONIAL OF REGARD FOR TALENT , INTEGRITY , AND DECISION OF CHARACTER THIS WORK IS SINCERELY INSCRIBED , BY THE EDITOR , PREFACE . THE present edition of Cicero contains the four.
Page xi
... regards the text itself , and the typographical ex- ecution of the volume . I examined it at Parker's , yesterday , in company with Ashton , of Brasen - Nose . - But do tell me , how stands your acquaint- ance with the life and writings ...
... regards the text itself , and the typographical ex- ecution of the volume . I examined it at Parker's , yesterday , in company with Ashton , of Brasen - Nose . - But do tell me , how stands your acquaint- ance with the life and writings ...
Page xxiii
... regard for the liberties of the people ? Dr. B. He was ; but profligacy and ruin had compelled him to take refuge among the very class on whose rights his patrician forefathers had so repeatedly trampled , and the corrupt and ...
... regard for the liberties of the people ? Dr. B. He was ; but profligacy and ruin had compelled him to take refuge among the very class on whose rights his patrician forefathers had so repeatedly trampled , and the corrupt and ...
Page xxxi
... regards the history of Roman eloquence , but it is not as interest- ing as its title would lead you to expect . It contains too many names , and too little is said of each , so that it resembles in some degree a dry sort of catalogue.3 ...
... regards the history of Roman eloquence , but it is not as interest- ing as its title would lead you to expect . It contains too many names , and too little is said of each , so that it resembles in some degree a dry sort of catalogue.3 ...
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... regard to the universality of his accomplishments , superior to any . - As a politician his defects are most striking , for his turn lay best for speculation , and nothing so clearly and decisively detects urking flaws in a man's ...
... regard to the universality of his accomplishments , superior to any . - As a politician his defects are most striking , for his turn lay best for speculation , and nothing so clearly and decisively detects urking flaws in a man's ...
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Page 120 - ... solos sapientes esse, si distortissimi sint, formosos ; si mendicissimi, divites ; si servitutem serviant, reges : nos autem, qui sapientes non sumus, fugitivos, exsules, hostes, insanos denique esse dicunt : omnia peccata esse paria : omne delictum scelus esse nefarium, nee minus delinquere eum, qui gallum gallinaceum, cum opus non fuerit, quam eum, qui patrem suffocaverit : sapientem nihil opinari, nullius rei paenitere, nulla in re falli, sententiam mutare numquam.
Page xxix - Dr. B. The attendants, as soon as the soldiers appeared, prepared themselves for action, being resolved to defend their master's life at the hazard of their own ; but Cicero commanded them to set down the litter in which they were conveying him, and to make no resistance...
Page 52 - ... haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent, 'delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.
Page 161 - A silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of a spear, sometimes holding a thunderbolt in its claws, with the figure of a small chapel above it, Dio. xl. 18., was the common standard of the legion, at least after the time of Marius, for before that the figures of other animals were used, Plin.
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