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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... never before appeared in any collection of the kind ) , it will not be a matter of surprise that some failure in this respect should have attended the endeavour ; the endeavour being , after all , the thing that I lay claim to rather 1 ...
... never before appeared in any collection of the kind ) , it will not be a matter of surprise that some failure in this respect should have attended the endeavour ; the endeavour being , after all , the thing that I lay claim to rather 1 ...
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... never repeated , of course , in any other tongue than one's own , and are not quotations in any sense of the term , but which seem never- theless worth preserving in the words of the author who has transmitted them , more as historical ...
... never repeated , of course , in any other tongue than one's own , and are not quotations in any sense of the term , but which seem never- theless worth preserving in the words of the author who has transmitted them , more as historical ...
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... never so solemnly impressive as when they are not recited aloud , so much as murmured half inaudibly to one's self , and the taste of the finely - worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind . Indeed a ...
... never so solemnly impressive as when they are not recited aloud , so much as murmured half inaudibly to one's self , and the taste of the finely - worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind . Indeed a ...
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... never . As the Greeks had no Kalends , the phrase is used of anything that can never possibly take place . According to Suetonius the saying was often in the mouth of Augustus in speaking of the probability of his paying his creditors ...
... never . As the Greeks had no Kalends , the phrase is used of anything that can never possibly take place . According to Suetonius the saying was often in the mouth of Augustus in speaking of the probability of his paying his creditors ...
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... never so humble , there's no place like home . -J . H. Payne , Opera of Clari . 92. Ad ognuno par più grave la croce sua . ( It . ) Prov.— Every one thinks his own cross the heaviest . 93. Ad omnem libidinem projectus homo . ( L ...
... never so humble , there's no place like home . -J . H. Payne , Opera of Clari . 92. Ad ognuno par più grave la croce sua . ( It . ) Prov.— Every one thinks his own cross the heaviest . 93. Ad omnem libidinem projectus homo . ( L ...
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