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Pagina 23 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Pagina 97 - Two triangles are similar, if an angle of one equals an angle of the other and the sides including these angles are proportional.
Pagina 23 - To the ill-starred Burns was given the power of making man's life more venerable, but that of wisely guiding his own life was not given. Destiny, — for so in our ignorance we must speak, — his faults, the faults of others, proved too hard for him ; and that spirit, which might have soared could it but have walked, soon sank to the dust, its glorious faculties trodden under foot in the blossom ; and died, we may...
Pagina 66 - Aeneae colloque pependit 715 et magnum falsi implevit genitoris amorem, reginam petit : haec oculis, haec pectore toto \ • haeret et interdum gremio fovet, inscia Dido, insidat quantus miserae deus ; at memor ille matris Acidaliae paulatim abolerc Sychaeum 720 incipit, et vivo temptat praevertere amore jam pridem resides animos desuetaque corda.
Pagina 27 - Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been...
Pagina 27 - The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And...
Pagina 70 - Haemi sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra ! felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, 490 atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari. fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestis Panaque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores.
Pagina 26 - Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game at chess.
Pagina 101 - The lateral area of a prism is equal to the product of a lateral edge by the perimeter of the right section.
Pagina 71 - Sarrano dormiat ostro; condit opes alius defossoque incubat auro; hic stupet attonitus rostris; hunc plausus hiantem per cuneos geminatus enim plebisque patrumque corripuit; gaudent perfusi sanguine fratrum, 510 exsilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant atque alio patriam quaerunt sub sole iacentem.

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