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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... journalist with a suggestive phrase , concise as Horace himself , from the French ; the essayist with some powerful line from a German poet ; the reviewer with some felicitous parallel that shall make the fortune of his article .
... journalist with a suggestive phrase , concise as Horace himself , from the French ; the essayist with some powerful line from a German poet ; the reviewer with some felicitous parallel that shall make the fortune of his article .
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Good fortune comes to people while they are asleep . 2. Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia . ( L. ) Law Max . - The abuse of anything is no argument against its proper use . 3. Ab actu ad posse valet illatio .
Good fortune comes to people while they are asleep . 2. Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia . ( L. ) Law Max . - The abuse of anything is no argument against its proper use . 3. Ab actu ad posse valet illatio .
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To push advantage , follow up his star ( If Fortune smiled ) , and overturn all odds That kept him from the prize - such was his plan : Pleased at the ruins that bestrewed his way . -Ed . 40. Acheruntis pabulum . ( L. ) Plaut . Cas .
To push advantage , follow up his star ( If Fortune smiled ) , and overturn all odds That kept him from the prize - such was his plan : Pleased at the ruins that bestrewed his way . -Ed . 40. Acheruntis pabulum . ( L. ) Plaut . Cas .
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... precocity of the infants of the nineteenth century ? 151. Ah ! le bon billet qu ' a La Châtre ! ( Fr. ) 2 - Ah ! what a ? good billet ( place , berth , office ) La Châtre has ! Envious exclamation at another's good fortune . 152.
... precocity of the infants of the nineteenth century ? 151. Ah ! le bon billet qu ' a La Châtre ! ( Fr. ) 2 - Ah ! what a ? good billet ( place , berth , office ) La Châtre has ! Envious exclamation at another's good fortune . 152.
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He dances well enough who has fortune for his fiddler . Prosperity lightens the heels as well as the heart . 385. Assez dure . ( Fr. ) Hard enough . Motto of Ironmongers ' Company . 386. Assumpsit . ( L. ) Law Term . — He undertook .
He dances well enough who has fortune for his fiddler . Prosperity lightens the heels as well as the heart . 385. Assez dure . ( Fr. ) Hard enough . Motto of Ironmongers ' Company . 386. Assumpsit . ( L. ) Law Term . — He undertook .
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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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