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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... remarked , Latin is not a dead language ; but that which we now write as Latin differs materially , though in a manner which is rather felt than described , from the old idiom ; and while we cannot write like Cicero , because we live in ...
... remarked , Latin is not a dead language ; but that which we now write as Latin differs materially , though in a manner which is rather felt than described , from the old idiom ; and while we cannot write like Cicero , because we live in ...
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... remarked , as a proof of his complete mastery of Latin , that , without using any barbarous terms , he contrived to express the most modern and un - Roman ideas , and to describe with the utmost perspicuity objects and facts quite ...
... remarked , as a proof of his complete mastery of Latin , that , without using any barbarous terms , he contrived to express the most modern and un - Roman ideas , and to describe with the utmost perspicuity objects and facts quite ...
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... remarked in his letter to Professor Pillans , very few scholars are uni- formly right in their use of the subjunctive , ' and some of the best are guided by accident and by ear , ' rather than by fixed and scientific principles ( Works ...
... remarked in his letter to Professor Pillans , very few scholars are uni- formly right in their use of the subjunctive , ' and some of the best are guided by accident and by ear , ' rather than by fixed and scientific principles ( Works ...
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... remarked this 22 in Muretus , and might have done the same in Ernesti , if this had been his business . Such then being the difficulty of writing Latin well , most scholars have been deterred by it , and have thus directed24 their ...
... remarked this 22 in Muretus , and might have done the same in Ernesti , if this had been his business . Such then being the difficulty of writing Latin well , most scholars have been deterred by it , and have thus directed24 their ...
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... remarked , that opinions should be estimated not by number , but by weight ; ' and that the judgment of one single man of worth and intelligence ought to be more highly prized than that of the inexperienced many , whom to satisfy and ...
... remarked , that opinions should be estimated not by number , but by weight ; ' and that the judgment of one single man of worth and intelligence ought to be more highly prized than that of the inexperienced many , whom to satisfy and ...
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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...