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... . stand respectively for Greek , Latin , French , Italian , German , Spanish , Portuguese , and Proverb . A NEW DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS , & c . A. PREFACE . The value of this Dictionary is greatly enhanced by the ...
... . stand respectively for Greek , Latin , French , Italian , German , Spanish , Portuguese , and Proverb . A NEW DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS , & c . A. PREFACE . The value of this Dictionary is greatly enhanced by the ...
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... Italians say , " A buon intenditor poche parole , " which has about the same meaning . A bon entendeur peu de paroles , or , A bon entendeur salut . Fr. prov .- " To a good , an attentive , hearer , but few words are necessary . " A ...
... Italians say , " A buon intenditor poche parole , " which has about the same meaning . A bon entendeur peu de paroles , or , A bon entendeur salut . Fr. prov .- " To a good , an attentive , hearer , but few words are necessary . " A ...
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... Italian proverb is - I picciol cani tro- vano , ma i grandi hanno la lepre . " The little dogs find , hunt out , but the great ones seize the hare . " Aliis , quia defit quod amant , aegre'st : tibi , quia superest dolet . Lat . TERENCE ...
... Italian proverb is - I picciol cani tro- vano , ma i grandi hanno la lepre . " The little dogs find , hunt out , but the great ones seize the hare . " Aliis , quia defit quod amant , aegre'st : tibi , quia superest dolet . Lat . TERENCE ...
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... Italy ; it is applied by analogy to the extreme parti- sans of pure democracy , an ultra - democrat . The plural is carbonari . N.B. In the wooded districts of the Abruzzi , a secluded and romantic region of Italy , the manufacture of ...
... Italy ; it is applied by analogy to the extreme parti- sans of pure democracy , an ultra - democrat . The plural is carbonari . N.B. In the wooded districts of the Abruzzi , a secluded and romantic region of Italy , the manufacture of ...
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... Italian is not correct : it should be , " Sarà qual che sarà . " Che spezie ! Ital.- " What arrogance , upstartishness ! " What a deal of smoke ! Chef d'œuvre . Fr. - A " masterpiece . " An unrivaled , unequaled , performance . Chef de ...
... Italian is not correct : it should be , " Sarà qual che sarà . " Che spezie ! Ital.- " What arrogance , upstartishness ! " What a deal of smoke ! Chef d'œuvre . Fr. - A " masterpiece . " An unrivaled , unequaled , performance . Chef de ...
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amor ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called character CICERO CLAUDIAN CORNELIUS NEPOS court death dicere 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 LUCRETIUS magna mali manner matter means ment mihi mind motto multa n'est nature nemo 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
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Page 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.
Page 53 - 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.
Page 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!
Page 303 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 162 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 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.
Page 235 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Page 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...
Page 260 - YE are to take care that this child be brought to the bishop, to be confirmed by him, so soon as he can say the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, in the vulgar tongue, and be further instructed in the Church Catechism set forth for that purpose.
Page 432 - — the latter four times repeated. Bathyllus owned himself unable to fill them out; and Virgil proved himself the author by completing them as follows : — " Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores : Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves ; Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves ; Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes ; Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.