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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What could be better , e.g. , than Statius ( Theb . 2 , 489 ) , O coeca nocentum consilia ! O semper timidum scelus / or the Grave pondus illum magna nobilitas premit of Seneca ( Troad . 491 ) ? ü INTRODUCTION . than the results.
What could be better , e.g. , than Statius ( Theb . 2 , 489 ) , O coeca nocentum consilia ! O semper timidum scelus / or the Grave pondus illum magna nobilitas premit of Seneca ( Troad . 491 ) ? ü INTRODUCTION . than the results.
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With regard also to the translations , I could have wished to see the work better turned out , particularly in the case of those poetical versions for which I am personally responsible . Distance from books , or an inability to find in ...
With regard also to the translations , I could have wished to see the work better turned out , particularly in the case of those poetical versions for which I am personally responsible . Distance from books , or an inability to find in ...
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He de- stroys his health by the pains he takes to preserve it . The life of the valetudinarian . Cf. the Italian epitaph of a person of this description : Stavo ben , ma per star meglio , sto qui , - “ I was well ; I would be better ...
He de- stroys his health by the pains he takes to preserve it . The life of the valetudinarian . Cf. the Italian epitaph of a person of this description : Stavo ben , ma per star meglio , sto qui , - “ I was well ; I would be better ...
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To change and to better are two different things . 120. Æquabiliter et diligenter . ( L . ) – Equitably and diligently . Motto of Earl Redesdale and Lord Truro . 121. Æquâ lege necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos ; Omne capax movet ...
To change and to better are two different things . 120. Æquabiliter et diligenter . ( L . ) – Equitably and diligently . Motto of Earl Redesdale and Lord Truro . 121. Æquâ lege necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos ; Omne capax movet ...
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—To act with caution , is better than wise reflection . 146. Agnoscere solis Permissum est , quos jam tangit vicinia fati Victurosque Dei celant , ut vivere durent , Felix esse mori . ( L. ) Luc . 4 , 517 . ' Tis only known to those who ...
—To act with caution , is better than wise reflection . 146. Agnoscere solis Permissum est , quos jam tangit vicinia fati Victurosque Dei celant , ut vivere durent , Felix esse mori . ( L. ) Luc . 4 , 517 . ' Tis only known to those who ...
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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 |
| Publisher | T. Whitaker, 1888 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 18 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 608 pages |
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