A Manual of Latin Prose Composition: For the Use of Schools and Private StudentsLongmans, Green, 1891 - 235 pagine |
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Pagina 134
... all the softer affections as natural enemies to justice , and as suggesting false motives from favour , clemency , and compassion . In public affairs he was the same ; had but one rule of policy - to adhere to what was right , without ...
... all the softer affections as natural enemies to justice , and as suggesting false motives from favour , clemency , and compassion . In public affairs he was the same ; had but one rule of policy - to adhere to what was right , without ...
Parole e frasi comuni
13 Pref able accus adjectives Adrumetum aliud apud army atque Cæsar Cicero classical composition consilium consul dative dependent clauses Dict ejus emperor enemy English enim erat Essay etsi expression finite verb Foliorum fortune frequently friends genitive gerundive Gram Greece Greek GROTE Hæc Hannibal haruspex Hist History honour idiom Indicative inter Ipse Isocrates Julius Cæsar king Latin Livy Madvig MERIVALE mihi mind nations neque Nihil nisi Orat Oratio Obliqua Oratio Recta oratory ORIGINAL PASSAGE partic participle PASSAGE ADAPTED person phrases Plato Poët præ Prælect Pref propositions PROSE Pythius quæ Quænam quam quia Quid quin quod quum relative clause Roman Rome satis senate sentence seqq signified soldiers speech style Subjunctive Mood sunt Tacitus take a Subjunctive tantum tense Themistocles things Thucydides tion Tusc words write
Brani popolari
Pagina 204 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Pagina 196 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Pagina 212 - It was indeed a dreadful evening The howling of the storm mingled with the shrieks of the sea-fowl, and sounded like the dirge of the three devoted beings, who, pent between two of the most magnificent yet most dreadful objects of nature, — -a raging tide and an insurmountable precipice, — toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often lashed by the spray of some giant billow which threw itself higher on the beach than those that had preceded it.
Pagina 120 - ... the spirit of the people. With such a cause as yours, my lord, it is not sufficient that you have the court at your devotion, unless you can find means to corrupt or intimidate the jury. The collective body of the people form that jury; and from their decision there is but one appeal. Whether you have talents to support you at a crisis of such difficulty and danger should long since have been considered.
Pagina 220 - ... incredible ; how a gigantic commerce gave birth to a maritime power, compared with which every other maritime power, ancient or modern, sinks into insignificance ; how Scotland, after ages of enmity, was at length united to England, not merely by legal bonds, but by indissoluble ties of interest and affection ; how, in America, the British colonies rapidly became far mightier and wealthier than the realms which Cortes and Pizarro had added to the dominions of Charles the Fifth ; how in Asia,...
Pagina 120 - IF nature had given you an understanding qualified to keep pace with the wishes and principles of your heart, she would have made you perhaps the most formidable minister that ever was employed under a limited monarch, to accomplish the ruin of a free people.
Pagina 148 - His urbanity, that is, his good manners, are to be commended, but his wit is faint ; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid. Juvenal is of 2d a more vigorous and masculine wit ; he gives me as much pleasure as I can bear ; he fully satisfies my expectation ; he treats his subject home : his spleen is raised, and he raises mine : I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says...
Pagina 121 - ... hundred a day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets or on the glacis of Tanjore, and expired of famine in the granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of this plague of hunger.
Pagina 202 - The unhappy news I have just received from you equally surprises and afflicts me. I have lost a person I loved very much, and have been used to from my infancy ; but am much more concerned for your loss, the circumstances of which I forbear to dwell upon, as you must be...
Pagina 147 - ... of his astonishing eloquence. He was so born, and so gifted, that poetry, forensic skill, elegant literature, and all the highest attainments of human genius, were within his reach ; but he thought the noblest occupation of a man was to make other men happy and free ; and in that straight line he went on for fifty years, without one sidelook, without one yielding thought, without one motive in his heart which he might not have laid open to the view of God and man.