Classical and Foreign Quotations: Law Terms and Maxims, Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Expressions in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Portuguese. With Translations, References, Explanatory Notes, and Indexes |
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What could be better , e.g. , than Statius ( Theb . 2 , 489 ) , O cæca nocentum consilia ! O semper timidum scelus / or the Grave pondus illum magna nobilitas premit of Seneca ( Troad . 491 ) 2 Erioden er was . I ordered 2 Spectator 221 ...
What could be better , e.g. , than Statius ( Theb . 2 , 489 ) , O cæca nocentum consilia ! O semper timidum scelus / or the Grave pondus illum magna nobilitas premit of Seneca ( Troad . 491 ) 2 Erioden er was . I ordered 2 Spectator 221 ...
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With regard also to the translations , I could have wished to see the work better turned out , particularly in the case of those poetical versions for which I am personally responsible . Distance from books , or an inability to find in ...
With regard also to the translations , I could have wished to see the work better turned out , particularly in the case of those poetical versions for which I am personally responsible . Distance from books , or an inability to find in ...
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He destroys his health by the pains he takes to preserve it . The life of the valetudinarian . Cf. the Italian epitaph of a person of this description : Stavo ben , ma per star meglio , sto qui , — " I was well ; I would be better ; and ...
He destroys his health by the pains he takes to preserve it . The life of the valetudinarian . Cf. the Italian epitaph of a person of this description : Stavo ben , ma per star meglio , sto qui , — " I was well ; I would be better ; and ...
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To change and to better are two different things . 120. Æquabiliter et diligenter . ( L . ) - Equitably and diligently . Motto of Lord Truro . 121. Æquâ lege necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos ; Omne capax movet urna nomen .
To change and to better are two different things . 120. Æquabiliter et diligenter . ( L . ) - Equitably and diligently . Motto of Lord Truro . 121. Æquâ lege necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos ; Omne capax movet urna nomen .
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1 To act with caution , is better than wise reflection . 146. Agnoscere solis Permissum est , quos jam tangit vicinia fati Victurosque Dei celant , ut vivere durent , Felix esse mori . ( L. ) Luc . 4 , 517 .
1 To act with caution , is better than wise reflection . 146. Agnoscere solis Permissum est , quos jam tangit vicinia fati Victurosque Dei celant , ut vivere durent , Felix esse mori . ( L. ) Luc . 4 , 517 .
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| Title | Classical and Foreign Quotations: Law Terms and Maxims, Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Expressions in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Portuguese. With Translations, References, Explanatory Notes, and Indexes |
| Author | William Francis Henry King |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Thomas Whittaker, 1889 |
| Original from | Michigan State University |
| Digitized | 16 Aug 2013 |
| Length | 624 pages |
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