A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages: Translated Into English, and Occasionally Accompanied with Illustrations, Historical Poetical, and Anecdotal, with an Extensive Index, Referring to Every Important WordJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 528 pagine |
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Pagina 6
... human crimes . I deem it to involve all others - violence , blood , rapine , fraud ; every thing that can deform the character , alter the nature , and debase the name of man . " - LORD BROUGHAM . On the subject of Honor there is more ...
... human crimes . I deem it to involve all others - violence , blood , rapine , fraud ; every thing that can deform the character , alter the nature , and debase the name of man . " - LORD BROUGHAM . On the subject of Honor there is more ...
Pagina 27
... human race . " The most glorious title that man can obtain , and which but few HOWARDS and FRANKLINS are found to claim . Amicus Plato , amicus Socrates , sed magis amica veritas . Lat . " Plato is my friend , Socrates is A NEW ...
... human race . " The most glorious title that man can obtain , and which but few HOWARDS and FRANKLINS are found to claim . Amicus Plato , amicus Socrates , sed magis amica veritas . Lat . " Plato is my friend , Socrates is A NEW ...
Pagina 29
... human mind , And human bliss is ever insecure : Know we what fortune yet remains behind ? Know we how long the present will endure ? " Αμφότεροι κλωπες , και ὁ δεξαμενος και ὁ κλεψας . Gr . prov . - PHOCYLIDES . " Both are thieves , the ...
... human mind , And human bliss is ever insecure : Know we what fortune yet remains behind ? Know we how long the present will endure ? " Αμφότεροι κλωπες , και ὁ δεξαμενος και ὁ κλεψας . Gr . prov . - PHOCYLIDES . " Both are thieves , the ...
Pagina 41
... human race rush onward in their mad career , setting at defiance all laws both human and divine . " This often forms a motto to some discourse or invective against the wickedness of the age . Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere ...
... human race rush onward in their mad career , setting at defiance all laws both human and divine . " This often forms a motto to some discourse or invective against the wickedness of the age . Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere ...
Pagina 48
... human beings in the ancient domain of hares and foxes ] . N.B. " Donjon " means the principal tower of a castle , which was usually raised on a natural or artificial mound , and situated in the innermost court . lower part was commonly ...
... human beings in the ancient domain of hares and foxes ] . N.B. " Donjon " means the principal tower of a castle , which was usually raised on a natural or artificial mound , and situated in the innermost court . lower part was commonly ...
Parole e frasi comuni
aetas amor ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called caprina character CICERO CLAUDIAN court death dicere EPICURUS evil exemplum expression facit fear feel fool fortune Fr.-The French genius give Greek happy homines homme honor HORACE HORACE.-"The human Ital JUVENAL king labor Latin Law maxim learned live LORD LUCAN magna mali manner matter means ment mihi mind motto multa n'est nature never nihil nisi nulla omnes omnia one's opinion OVID passion PERSIUS person PHAEDRUS philosopher phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet potest prov proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS quae quam quid QUINTILIAN quod quotation rebus rerum risum Roman saepe Scots law semper SENECA sense sibi signify sine soul speak sunt TACITUS TERENCE term thing thou tibi truth vice VIRGIL virtue vita wise word writ writing
Brani popolari
Pagina 120 - 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.
Pagina 25 - 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.
Pagina 201 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Pagina 147 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
Pagina 184 - 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!
Pagina 235 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Pagina 227 - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum : Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.
Pagina 437 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet ' Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum ' Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
Pagina 32 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Pagina 201 - ... huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...