Longer exercises in Latin prose composition, chiefly tr. from the writings of modern Latinists: with an intr. and notes by J.W. Donaldson |
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... able only by those who have mastered the ordinary resources of Latin Scholarship ; and many scholars , who know Latin very well for their own purposes , have no wish or intention to acquire and exercise the accomplishment or faculty of ...
... able only by those who have mastered the ordinary resources of Latin Scholarship ; and many scholars , who know Latin very well for their own purposes , have no wish or intention to acquire and exercise the accomplishment or faculty of ...
Page xxi
... able to meet him in the city to day , & c , ' where it is only a knowledge of the circum- stances which can enable us to understand whether A. , B. , or C. , are meant by the ' he ' and ' him . ' The opposition between se , is and ille ...
... able to meet him in the city to day , & c , ' where it is only a knowledge of the circum- stances which can enable us to understand whether A. , B. , or C. , are meant by the ' he ' and ' him . ' The opposition between se , is and ille ...
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... able to dis- tinguish between noxia , an adjective , with culpa or res understood , and signifying ' a fault , ' and noxa , a substantive , denoting punishment for a fault , and hence any harm or damage ( Oudend . ad Suet . Cæs . c . 81 ) ...
... able to dis- tinguish between noxia , an adjective , with culpa or res understood , and signifying ' a fault , ' and noxa , a substantive , denoting punishment for a fault , and hence any harm or damage ( Oudend . ad Suet . Cæs . c . 81 ) ...
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... able to perform the easier task of expressing their own thoughts in the language of the Romans . With regard to original composition in Latin prose , I think we may safely rely on one general principle , that no one will write well in ...
... able to perform the easier task of expressing their own thoughts in the language of the Romans . With regard to original composition in Latin prose , I think we may safely rely on one general principle , that no one will write well in ...
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... able , on their return , to tell their associates where each town is situated , " how the houses are built , how it is off for wares and other things to gratify the taste ; but as for the laws and constitution by which it 4 7 5 10 12 ...
... able , on their return , to tell their associates where each town is situated , " how the houses are built , how it is off for wares and other things to gratify the taste ; but as for the laws and constitution by which it 4 7 5 10 12 ...
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Page 99 - and tell you a truth, which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Page 98 - I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
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Page 101 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth ; yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Page 81 - If he had not so great a stock as some have had who flourished formerly, of knowledge long treasured up, he knew better by far than any man I ever was acquainted with, how to bring together within a short time, all that was necessary to establish, to illustrate, and to decorate that side of the question he supported.
Page 99 - God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 99 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
Page 81 - He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.— And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed...