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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499 ) , “ I protest , for about the hundredth time , against the slipshod method of quoting a mere author's name , without any indication of the work of that author in which the alleged quotation may be found .
499 ) , “ I protest , for about the hundredth time , against the slipshod method of quoting a mere author's name , without any indication of the work of that author in which the alleged quotation may be found .
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It may seem unnecessary to add that the author should be quoted in his own tongue ; but , from the unfamiliarity of the Greek language , it is not uncommon to have a passage from a Greek writer given in a Latin rendering , which seems ...
It may seem unnecessary to add that the author should be quoted in his own tongue ; but , from the unfamiliarity of the Greek language , it is not uncommon to have a passage from a Greek writer given in a Latin rendering , which seems ...
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... was presented not only with long paragraphs in French and Latin , but with pointless scraps of Greek and Italian , Welsh , and even native Irish , which could hardly be conceived of as either likely or even possible to be quoted .
... was presented not only with long paragraphs in French and Latin , but with pointless scraps of Greek and Italian , Welsh , and even native Irish , which could hardly be conceived of as either likely or even possible to be quoted .
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Yet , when as recently as November 9 , 1883 , the Lord Mayor of London could bring into an after - dinner speech not only his Horace and his Virgil , but even quoted a passage from the “ Iliad , ” it hardly seems as if Greek quotations ...
Yet , when as recently as November 9 , 1883 , the Lord Mayor of London could bring into an after - dinner speech not only his Horace and his Virgil , but even quoted a passage from the “ Iliad , ” it hardly seems as if Greek quotations ...
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In practice , Latin is quoted nearly twice as often as French ; French 1 Wilkes censuring quotation as pedantry , Johnson replied , “ No , sir , it is a good thing : there is a community of mind in it . Classical quotation is the parole ...
In practice , Latin is quoted nearly twice as often as French ; French 1 Wilkes censuring quotation as pedantry , Johnson replied , “ No , sir , it is a good thing : there is a community of mind in it . Classical quotation is the parole ...
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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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