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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... greatest gift of all . Muretus and Ernesti wrote well ; but though their Latinity was pure in its general structure and style , they could not shake off occasional blemishes in the separate words and phrases . " Ruhnken has remarked ...
... greatest gift of all . Muretus and Ernesti wrote well ; but though their Latinity was pure in its general structure and style , they could not shake off occasional blemishes in the separate words and phrases . " Ruhnken has remarked ...
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... greatest possible stock of such materials . For , although they say that , as in a strange house , so also in a foreign state , one ought not to be curious ; yet this curiosity , which I speak of , has always been useful both to states ...
... greatest possible stock of such materials . For , although they say that , as in a strange house , so also in a foreign state , one ought not to be curious ; yet this curiosity , which I speak of , has always been useful both to states ...
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... greatest " writers , and prac- tise yourself frequently in the imitation of detached passages ; in translating these , 13 break up the periods , " and try to restore the structure when you retranslate the sentences . " This is an ...
... greatest " writers , and prac- tise yourself frequently in the imitation of detached passages ; in translating these , 13 break up the periods , " and try to restore the structure when you retranslate the sentences . " This is an ...
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... greatest men , who had every means of learning it , that Ludovico Ariosto , that most illustrious panegyrist3 of a most illustrious family , laboured incredibly upon the first two verses in that larger poem of his , and could not ...
... greatest men , who had every means of learning it , that Ludovico Ariosto , that most illustrious panegyrist3 of a most illustrious family , laboured incredibly upon the first two verses in that larger poem of his , and could not ...
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... greatest variety of arrangement . ' 5 Exercise XV . The Death of Commodus . 4 THEY resolved however to manage the matter with poison , which Marcia undertook ' that she would easily give him . For she was accustomed to mix and hand to ...
... greatest variety of arrangement . ' 5 Exercise XV . The Death of Commodus . 4 THEY resolved however to manage the matter with poison , which Marcia undertook ' that she would easily give him . For she was accustomed to mix and hand to ...
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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.
Page 98 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
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...