A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations, which are in Daily Use: Taken from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages; Translated Into English, with Illustrations, Historical and Idiomatic

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A. Finley, 1818 - 322 páginas
 

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Página 72 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 4 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners.
Página 1 - The ADVANTAGE and NECESSITY of the CHRISTIAN REVELATION, shewn from the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World...
Página 269 - In solving doubts, the maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas [use your own property in such a manner as not to injure that of another...
Página 300 - ... quo didicisse, nisi hoc fermentum et quae semel intus innata est rupto iecore exierit caprificus?' 25 en pallor seniumque! o mores, usque adeone scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? 'at pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est." ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse pro nihilo pendes?
Página 61 - From the law." — These opposite phrases are best explained together. In some instances, the penalty attaches on the offender at the instant when- the fact is committed; in others, not until he is convicted by law. In the former case, he is guilty de facto; in the latter, dejure.
Página 318 - I can scarcely call these things my own," (alluding to ancestry.) Vixere fortes ante Jlgamemnona Multi: sed omnes illachrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longd Node, carent quia vate sacro. Lat. HORACE. " Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to long oblivion, because they are without a sacred bard,
Página 31 - Pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier hie est. Lat. PERSIUS. " It is pleasant to be pointed at with the finger, and to have it said, 'There goes the man.
Página 237 - We smile, as the satirist justly observes, at follies related under feigned names, when we should smart if they were linked with our own. Quid Bomcefaciam? Jlfentiri nescio. Lat. JUVENAL. " What should I do at Rome ? I cannot lie.
Página 36 - The world of fashion. Beaux esprits. Fr. — " Gay spirits." — Men of wit." Bella femina che ride, vuol dir, borsa che piange. Ital. Prov. — "The smiles of a pretty woman are* the tears of the purse.

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