Classical and Foreign Quotations,law Terms and Maxims,proverbs,mottoes,phrases,and Expressions in French,German,Greek,Italian,Latin,Spanish,and Portuguese |
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And this calling - up of the death- less dead implies also a community of mind with them , which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.1 2 In literary composition a well - chosen quotation ...
And this calling - up of the death- less dead implies also a community of mind with them , which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.1 2 In literary composition a well - chosen quotation ...
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signifies date of death . ? occurring after a quotation means that author , or passage ( or both ) , are uncertain . See p . i . at the bottom , and p . viii , and note . The first words of a quotation beginning with the end of a line ...
signifies date of death . ? occurring after a quotation means that author , or passage ( or both ) , are uncertain . See p . i . at the bottom , and p . viii , and note . The first words of a quotation beginning with the end of a line ...
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No dirges for my fancied death ; No weak lament , no mournful stave ; All clamorous grief were waste of breath , And vain the tribute of a grave . - Conington . 21. Absit invidia . ( L . ) - All offence apart . 22. Absit invidia verbo .
No dirges for my fancied death ; No weak lament , no mournful stave ; All clamorous grief were waste of breath , And vain the tribute of a grave . - Conington . 21. Absit invidia . ( L . ) - All offence apart . 22. Absit invidia verbo .
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A personal right of action expires with the death of the person concerned . Thus , in Osborne v . Gillett , Lord Bramwell held that a father might bring an action for negligence , whereby his daughter was killed but Chief Baron Kelly ...
A personal right of action expires with the death of the person concerned . Thus , in Osborne v . Gillett , Lord Bramwell held that a father might bring an action for negligence , whereby his daughter was killed but Chief Baron Kelly ...
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Tis only known to those who stand Already on death's borderland The bliss it is to die : Where life is vigorous still , to give Men courage to endure to live , The gods have sealed the eye.-Ed. 147. Agnosco veteris vestigia flammæ .
Tis only known to those who stand Already on death's borderland The bliss it is to die : Where life is vigorous still , to give Men courage to endure to live , The gods have sealed the eye.-Ed. 147. Agnosco veteris vestigia flammæ .
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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 |
| Author | William Francis Henry King |
| Compiled by | William Francis Henry King |
| Publisher | Whitaker & Sons, 1887 |
| Length | 608 pages |
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