A new dictionary of quotations from the Greek, Latin, and modern languages, tr. by the author of 'Live and learn'.1859 |
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Výsledky 1 - 5 z 83.
Strana 2
... cause , law- suit , is lost , there has been enough of words , enough has been said . " Do not discuss what has already been decided - settled . A chaque oiseau Son nid est beau . Fr. prov.- " Every bird thinks its own nest , finds its ...
... cause , law- suit , is lost , there has been enough of words , enough has been said . " Do not discuss what has already been decided - settled . A chaque oiseau Son nid est beau . Fr. prov.- " Every bird thinks its own nest , finds its ...
Strana 5
... cause to the effect : " A posteriori " means , from the latter , from the effect to the cause . These are phrases , which are used in logical argument , to denote a reference to its different modes . The schoolmen distinguished them ...
... cause to the effect : " A posteriori " means , from the latter , from the effect to the cause . These are phrases , which are used in logical argument , to denote a reference to its different modes . The schoolmen distinguished them ...
Strana 6
... cause new disputes , fresh strife . " The English proverb is , " Short reckonings make long friends . Even reckoning keeps long friends . " A verbis legis non est recedendum . Lat . Law maxim .- " There is no departing from the words of ...
... cause new disputes , fresh strife . " The English proverb is , " Short reckonings make long friends . Even reckoning keeps long friends . " A verbis legis non est recedendum . Lat . Law maxim .- " There is no departing from the words of ...
Strana 15
... cause of the revolted Netherlands , and her admiral , Sir Francis Drake , had taken some of the Spanish settlements in America . To avenge these injuries , the Invincible Armada of 150 ships of war , 27,000 men , and 3000 pieces of ...
... cause of the revolted Netherlands , and her admiral , Sir Francis Drake , had taken some of the Spanish settlements in America . To avenge these injuries , the Invincible Armada of 150 ships of war , 27,000 men , and 3000 pieces of ...
Strana 20
... cause . " A lord of the manor , though having cognisance of all kinds of pleas , cannot hold plea where he himself is a party . Aliquid inane . Lat . " An indescribable , unaccountable , kind or de- gree of silliness ; trifling ; folly ...
... cause . " A lord of the manor , though having cognisance of all kinds of pleas , cannot hold plea where he himself is a party . Aliquid inane . Lat . " An indescribable , unaccountable , kind or de- gree of silliness ; trifling ; folly ...
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aetas ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called character CICERO CLAUDIAN Compare SHAKSPERE CORNELIUS NEPOS court death dicere everything evil expression facit fear feel folly fool fortune Fr.-The French genius give Greek happy homines homme honour HORACE HORACE.-"The human Ital JUVENAL king labour Latin Law maxim learned live LORD LUCAN LUCRETIUS magna mali manner matter means mihi mind motto Multa nature Nemo never Nihil nisi nulla omnes omnia one's OVID passion PERSIUS person PHAEDRUS philosopher phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet potest prov proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS quae quam quid QUINTILIAN quod quotation rebus rerum risum ROCHEFOUCAULT Roman saepe SALLUST semper SENECA sense sibi signify sine soul speaking sunt TACITUS TERENCE term things thou tibi vice VIRGIL virtue vita wise word writ writing دو وو
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Strana 180 - 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!
Strana 49 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Strana 3 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
Strana 143 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
Strana 406 - Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia : navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis hic est, Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.
Strana 427 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek.
Strana 98 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Strana 21 - 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.
Strana 229 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Strana 116 - 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.