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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Natural and essential as one would imagine such details to be to any collection of quotations , it does not appear to have entered into the plan of any previous compilers , so that the idea has almost the merit of originality .
Natural and essential as one would imagine such details to be to any collection of quotations , it does not appear to have entered into the plan of any previous compilers , so that the idea has almost the merit of originality .
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The book , as will be seen by reference to the title - page , is somewhat of an encyclopædic nature , and includes many items that are not , in any sense , citations from authors , but which have been added with the object of making the ...
The book , as will be seen by reference to the title - page , is somewhat of an encyclopædic nature , and includes many items that are not , in any sense , citations from authors , but which have been added with the object of making the ...
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The uniformity of nature furnishes a ground of induction , upon which we may conclude that a similar condition of things being given , what has happened once will happen again . In the same way a man's habits afford presumption for the ...
The uniformity of nature furnishes a ground of induction , upon which we may conclude that a similar condition of things being given , what has happened once will happen again . In the same way a man's habits afford presumption for the ...
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Keep your finery for the mob , I know your nature , inside as well as out . Such pageantry be to the people shown , There boast thy horse's trappings and thy own ; I know thee to the bottom , from within Thy shallow centre to thy utmost ...
Keep your finery for the mob , I know your nature , inside as well as out . Such pageantry be to the people shown , There boast thy horse's trappings and thy own ; I know thee to the bottom , from within Thy shallow centre to thy utmost ...
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... but he was a person of such versatile talents , and so equally adapted for any and every pursuit , that let him be doing what he would , you would have said that it was the very thing that nature had intended him for . 107.
... but he was a person of such versatile talents , and so equally adapted for any and every pursuit , that let him be doing what he would , you would have said that it was the very thing that nature had intended him for . 107.
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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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