A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes, by which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader |
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... against the vices and follies of the people among which he lived ; Rom . ii . 15. Comp . If . xlv . 5. See Sat. x . 1. 363 , and note . a 2 and and , indeed , against all , who , like PREFACE .
... against the vices and follies of the people among which he lived ; Rom . ii . 15. Comp . If . xlv . 5. See Sat. x . 1. 363 , and note . a 2 and and , indeed , against all , who , like PREFACE .
Page iv
... against all , who , like them , give a loofe to their depraved appetites , as if there were no other liberty to be fought after , but the most unrestrained in- dulgence of vicious pleafures and gratifications . How far Rome - Christian ...
... against all , who , like them , give a loofe to their depraved appetites , as if there were no other liberty to be fought after , but the most unrestrained in- dulgence of vicious pleafures and gratifications . How far Rome - Christian ...
Page vii
... that the early disgust , which , in too many inftances , youth is apt to conceive against claffical learning ( fo that the fchool - time is passed in a State State of labour and forrow ) arifes moftly from the PREFACE . vii.
... that the early disgust , which , in too many inftances , youth is apt to conceive against claffical learning ( fo that the fchool - time is passed in a State State of labour and forrow ) arifes moftly from the PREFACE . vii.
Page ix
... against the unrighteousness of the world in which they lived . Hence , we find the great apoftle of the Gentiles , Acts xvii . 28. quoting a paffage from his countryman , Aratus of Cilicia , against idolatry , or imagining there be gods ...
... against the unrighteousness of the world in which they lived . Hence , we find the great apoftle of the Gentiles , Acts xvii . 28. quoting a paffage from his countryman , Aratus of Cilicia , against idolatry , or imagining there be gods ...
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... against us . If , on the contrary , it tends to make us proud , vain , and con- ceited , to rest in its attainments as the fummit of wif- dom and knowledge ; if it contributes to harden the mind againfi fuperior information , or fills ...
... against us . If , on the contrary , it tends to make us proud , vain , and con- ceited , to rest in its attainments as the fummit of wif- dom and knowledge ; if it contributes to harden the mind againfi fuperior information , or fills ...
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Page 372 - Catinensi pumice lumbum squalentes traducit avos emptorque veneni frangenda miseram funestat imagine gentem? tota licet veteres exornent undique cerae atria, nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.
Page 417 - I'll tell you, friend; a wife man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The reft is all but leather or prunella.
Page 176 - Maecenas, upon whom at first he confetrefl the new honour. He was to precede all other city magistrates, having power to receive appeals from the inferior courts, and to decide almost all causes within the limits of Rome, or one hundred miles round. Before this, there was sometimes a pimfectus urbis created, when the kings, or the greater officers, were absent from the city, to administer justice in their room.
Page viii - The books that we learn at schools are generally laid aside, with this prejudice, that they were the labours as well as the sorrows of our childhood and education ; but they are among the best of books : the Greek and Roman authors have a spirit in them, a force both of thought and expression, that later ages have not been able to imitate...