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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... the quotations are , as a rule , referred to under a single word or less representing their drift and meaning . Circumlocution is given instead of Beat about the bush ; Many a slip ' twixt cup , etc. , is now found under Uncertainty ...
... the quotations are , as a rule , referred to under a single word or less representing their drift and meaning . Circumlocution is given instead of Beat about the bush ; Many a slip ' twixt cup , etc. , is now found under Uncertainty ...
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Thirty passages , for example , are given under number 3114 , and twenty - six under 506 . In the work of revision I have been much helped by the friends and correspondents who have kindly responded to my appeal for corrections .
Thirty passages , for example , are given under number 3114 , and twenty - six under 506 . In the work of revision I have been much helped by the friends and correspondents who have kindly responded to my appeal for corrections .
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... be really the author's to whom it is ascribed ; and next , it is almost even chances that the words given are not the exact words of the original . Such a sentence may be in Cicero , but it may also be in Quintilian ; such a line ...
... be really the author's to whom it is ascribed ; and next , it is almost even chances that the words given are not the exact words of the original . Such a sentence may be in Cicero , but it may also be in Quintilian ; such a line ...
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... quoted in his own tongue ; but , from the unfamiliarity of the Greek language , it is not uncommon to have a passage from a Greek writer given in a Latin rendering , which seems hardly permissible in a book of original quotation .
... quoted in his own tongue ; but , from the unfamiliarity of the Greek language , it is not uncommon to have a passage from a Greek writer given in a Latin rendering , which seems hardly permissible in a book of original quotation .
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I have to acknowledge with grateful thanks the permission kindly given by the proprietors of the copyright of the late Professor Conington's Æneid and Horace to make use of his admirable translations under certain fixed conditions .
I have to acknowledge with grateful thanks the permission kindly given by the proprietors of the copyright of the late Professor Conington's Æneid and Horace to make use of his admirable translations under certain fixed conditions .
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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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