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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When , however , the number of quotations included in the work is taken into account ( many of them having never before appeared in any collection of the kind ) , it will not be a matter of surprise that some failure in this respect ...
When , however , the number of quotations included in the work is taken into account ( many of them having never before appeared in any collection of the kind ) , it will not be a matter of surprise that some failure in this respect ...
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Of the former are well - known stories and allusions , such as Cato's story of the Augurs , or the Philip drunk and Philip sober incident - passages which are never repeated , of course , in any other tongue than one's own , and are not ...
Of the former are well - known stories and allusions , such as Cato's story of the Augurs , or the Philip drunk and Philip sober incident - passages which are never repeated , of course , in any other tongue than one's own , and are not ...
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While certain lines , again , and those , , not the least pointed , seem never so solemnly impressive as when they are not recited aloud , so much as murmured half inaudibly to one's self , and the taste of the finely - worded truth ...
While certain lines , again , and those , , not the least pointed , seem never so solemnly impressive as when they are not recited aloud , so much as murmured half inaudibly to one's self , and the taste of the finely - worded truth ...
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The next day after never . As the Greeks had no Kalends , the phrase is used of anything that can never possibly take place . According to Suetonius the saying was often in the mouth of Augustus in speaking of the probability of his ...
The next day after never . As the Greeks had no Kalends , the phrase is used of anything that can never possibly take place . According to Suetonius the saying was often in the mouth of Augustus in speaking of the probability of his ...
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Be it never so humble , there's no place like home . -J . H. Payne , Opera of Clari . 92. Ad ognuno par più grave la croce sua . ( It . ) Prov.Every one thinks his own cross the heaviest . 93. Ad omnem libidinem projectus homo .
Be it never so humble , there's no place like home . -J . H. Payne , Opera of Clari . 92. Ad ognuno par più grave la croce sua . ( It . ) Prov.Every one thinks his own cross the heaviest . 93. Ad omnem libidinem projectus homo .
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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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