 | Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 320 pages
...and records them in a style worthy of the greatness of the events, I exclaim with a Roman author, " Beatos puto quibus Deorum munere datum est aut facere scribenda aut scribere legenda: beatissimos quibus utrumque :" I look on those characters with high respect, 011 whom Heaven has bestowed talents... | |
 | Latin literature - 1806 - 584 pages
...opera et mansura condiderit; raultum tamen perpetuîtati ejus scriptorum tuorum aeternitas adelet. Equidem. beatos puto, quibus deorum munere datum est aut facere scribenda , aut scribere legonda ; beatissimos vero quibus utrumciue. IIorum in numero avunculus meus et suis libris et tuis... | |
 | Switzerland - 1813 - 490 pages
...-IENNES, :•!-..•. : AUGMENTÉE. .1 TOME I. A LAUSANNE , Chez Louis K.NAB , Libraire. 1813. , \ Equidem beatos puto , quibus Deorum munere datum ^est...scribenda, aut scribere legenda; beatissimos vero, quibus ulrumque. . . - , • PiiN. Epist. LISTE DE MESSIEURS LES SOUSCRIPTEURS. MM. /\ET (le baron d') de... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 650 pages
...deeds, whether they be good or whether they be evil. I conclude with the words of Caius Pliniusb: " Equidem beatos puto quibus Deorum munere datum est, aut facere scribenda, aut scribere legenda :" ' he wrote many things fit to be read, and did very many things worthy to be written ;' which if... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 652 pages
...deeds, whether they be good or whether they be evil. I conclude with the words of Caius Pliniusb: " Equidem beatos puto quibus Deorum munere datum est, aut facere scribenda, aut scribere legenda :" ' he wrote many things fit to be read, and did very many things worthy to be written ;' which if... | |
 | Books - 1826 - 570 pages
...style would have triumphed over every other. Of Palladio we may say with Plrny, " Beatos puto, quibus datum est aut facere scribenda, aut scribere legenda ; beatissimos vero quibus utrumque." Palladio is then more than blessed, since he said and did things worthy not only of being written and... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1827 - 420 pages
...read. The younger Pliny (for there were two Plinys, the uncle and the nephew), expresses it thus : " Equidem beatos puto, quibus Deorum munere datum est, aut facere scribenda, aut legenda scribere; beatissimos vero quibus utrumque." Pray mind your Greek particularly ; for to know... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 706 pages
...deeds, whether they be good or whether they be evil. I conclude with the words of Caius Plinius b : " Equidem beatos puto quibus Deorum munere datum est, aut facere scribenda, aut scribere legenda :" ' he wrote many things fit to be read, and did very many things worthy to be written:' which if... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History, General - 1835 - 340 pages
...Tacitus the historian, (lib. vi. epist. 16.) Of the character of his uncle he says, with justice, " Equidem beatos puto quibus Deorum munere datum est...quibus utrumque. Horum in numero avunculus meus*." The desolation of Campania occasioned by this terrible eruption of Vesuvius was remedied to the utmost... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1839 - 346 pages
...Tacitus the historian, (lib. vi. epist. 16.) Of the character of his uncle he says, with justice, " Equidem beatos puto quibus Deorum munere datum est...quibus utrumque. Horum in numero avunculus meus."* The desolation of Campania, occasioned by this terrible eruption of Vesuvius, was remedied to the utmost... | |
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... equidem beatos puto quibus deorum munere datum est aut facere scribenda aut scribere legenda, beatissimos vero quibus utrumque. 
