Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose, by H.A. Holden

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Hubert Ashton Holden
1876

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The consideration of infinity beyond mans powers
35
The true character of gentlemen
37
Ciceros philosophical skill
39
Of Indolence
41
Religion alone determines to right conduct
43
Of Fortune
45
Youth the time for imbibing virtuous principles
47
82
53
93
59
Letter to Hon H S Conway
66
The physical condition of man and other animals
67
Pragmatical meddling with other mens matters
72
Civil injuriesseveral kinds of and remedies
73
Epitaphs
78
Of the true greatness of kingdoms
84
Character of the true poet
85
J Dryden
89
Indifference to outward circumstances
90
Foxs East India Bill
91
The virtue of a commander
96
A Pope
97
The course of nature
101
How to procure contentedness
102
180
111
E Gibbon
112
Intellect of Adam in Paradise
117
200
123
W Robertson
125
The pleasure of study and contemplation
129
Sir H Wotton
130
Profligacy of politicians in the reign of Charles II
135
E Gibbon
139
227
141
A Cowley
143
E Burke
145
Popularity not to be sought nor despised
147
Hume
149
Swift
151
Addison
152
Fortune mistaken notions concerning
153
Lord Clarendon
159
Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots
160
Atheiststheir foolish credulity concerning atoms
166
N Machiavelli
167
Operations before the battle of Floddenfield
172
Fiescos exhortations to the conspirators
173
Nature and situation of the castle of Dumbarton
178
H Walpole
183
The wisest men think for themselves
184
S Johnson
188
A mercenary war difficult to be sustained
190
Hume
196
326
201
326
202
Addison
203
Sickness of Queen Elizabeth
208
E Gibbon
212
A letter from Sir William Temple
214
300
221
W Paley
222
Painful memory of departed folly
227
R South
230
Letter to his Mother on the loss of his Aunt
233
A field of battle described
238
Lord Clarendon
240
Character
244
G Buchanan
249
Disadvantages of an exalted reputation
250
Emulation not to be confined to a narrow sphere
257
R Southey
259
S Johnson
261
The Sienese and Charles V and Cosmo De Medici
263
Death in the wilderness
265
J Milton
268
Proneness to look into futurity
269
Struggle between the Spaniards and Hollanders
271
J J Blunt
275
Inundation in Holland
277
Lord Macaulay
281
Sorrow
282
Comparison between kings and cedars
283
Evanescence of ideas
288
Deathbed speech
294
Hume
295
Lord Macaulay
299
The Norman Conquest
300
No man can be good to
301
E Burke
335
J Froissart
337
Hume
339
E Burke
343
W Robertson
346
Hume
349
Difficulty of conjoint action
352
47
355
Pirates
358
Middleton
360
E Spenser
363
Advantage of treasure in
364
G Berkeley
369
The pastoral state
370
W Smyth
373
W F P Napier
375
Treatment of soldiers
376
An incident contrasting the Athenian and Lacede
382
Pericles
383
Milton
387
Our capacity for happiness
388
109
389
B G Niebuhr
391
The law of Solon Plutarch
392
The victory of faith 7 C Hare
393
W Robertson
394
T Arnold
395
Greek Religion Max Müller
396
King 7 Selden
397
N Machiavelli
400
R Hooker
403
G Berkeley
406
Lord Bacon
413
T Erskine
416
O Goldsmith
419
Solon and Pisistratus
425
Of the opinion of necessity
431
A Cowley
435
H H Milman
436
202
437
Hume
438
Lord Bacon
439
Gods particular providence
443
E Burke
447
Whichcote
449
Ulpian Fulwell
456
The true patriot
462
W Robertson
467
Commonwealths and internal evils
468
R Ascham
474
Sir T Browne
476
E Gibbon
479
Conyers Middleton
481
A Sidney
482
E Burke
488
Davison
489
J Locke
494
A Pope
497
Lord Bacon
499
Semper amari aliquid media inter gaudia serpit R Southwell
500
Hume
503
History
506
Sir J Herschel
511
H W Longfellow
512
E Burke
517
W Stow
518
Lord Bacon
523
E Burke
524
Cromwell Lord Clarendon
525
The art of government J Milton
526
Heraclitus
527
Ignorance of lifes great business T Arnold
528
H Coleridge
529
Truth and error
530
The lower animals without fellowfeeling
531
Letter
532
The Emperor Julian E Gibbon
533
Intercourse with the great men of old Lord Macaulay
534
Fortune B Jonson
535
Non nimium credendum antiquitati B Jonson
536
The disease of talking B Jonson
537
Spectator
538
Memory B Jonson
539
A Dacier
545
Addison
Sir W Temple

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Pagina 40 - Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Pagina 40 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Pagina 67 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Pagina 360 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Pagina 86 - The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Pagina 423 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Pagina 103 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Pagina 273 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Pagina 80 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream...
Pagina 174 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.

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