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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... journalist with a suggestive phrase , concise as Horace himself , from the French ; the essayist with some powerful line from a German poet ; the reviewer with some felicitous parallel that shall make the fortune of his article .
... journalist with a suggestive phrase , concise as Horace himself , from the French ; the essayist with some powerful line from a German poet ; the reviewer with some felicitous parallel that shall make the fortune of his article .
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To push advantage , follow up his star ( If Fortune smiled ) , and overturn all odds That kept him from the prize - such was his plan : Pleased at the ruins that bestrewed his way . — Ed . 40. Acheruntis pabulum . ( L. ) Plaut . Cas .
To push advantage , follow up his star ( If Fortune smiled ) , and overturn all odds That kept him from the prize - such was his plan : Pleased at the ruins that bestrewed his way . — Ed . 40. Acheruntis pabulum . ( L. ) Plaut . Cas .
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151. Ah ! le bon billet qu ' a La Châtre ! ( Fr. ) ? Ah ! what a good billet ( place , berth , office ) La Châtre has ! Envious exclamation at another's good fortune . 152. Ah miser ! Quanta laborabas Charybdi , Digne puer meliore ...
151. Ah ! le bon billet qu ' a La Châtre ! ( Fr. ) ? Ah ! what a good billet ( place , berth , office ) La Châtre has ! Envious exclamation at another's good fortune . 152. Ah miser ! Quanta laborabas Charybdi , Digne puer meliore ...
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He . dances well enough who has fortune for his fiddler . Prosperity lightens the heels as well as the heart . 385. Assez dure . ( Fr . ) - Hard enough . Motto of Ironmongers ' Company . 386. Assumpsit . ( L. ) Law Term .
He . dances well enough who has fortune for his fiddler . Prosperity lightens the heels as well as the heart . 385. Assez dure . ( Fr . ) - Hard enough . Motto of Ironmongers ' Company . 386. Assumpsit . ( L. ) Law Term .
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Fortune telling . Into death's hidden hour ye mortals are prying , Searching what is the way ye shall come to your end . To interpret the teaching of planets ye're trying , Which star is man's enemy , which is his friend . -Ed . 411.
Fortune telling . Into death's hidden hour ye mortals are prying , Searching what is the way ye shall come to your end . To interpret the teaching of planets ye're trying , Which star is man's enemy , which is his friend . -Ed . 411.
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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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