Materials for Latin prose, by P. Frost [With] KeyPercival Frost 1852 |
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39. oldal
... NIEBUHR . Simonides is said to have been the first who taught the art of memory . The following story re- specting him is well known . Having agreed for a stipulated sum to write a poem , such as was MATERIALS FOR LATIN PROSE . 39.
... NIEBUHR . Simonides is said to have been the first who taught the art of memory . The following story re- specting him is well known . Having agreed for a stipulated sum to write a poem , such as was MATERIALS FOR LATIN PROSE . 39.
41. oldal
... NIEBUHR . Demosthenes went into exile , first , perhaps , to Megara , and afterwards to Ægina . Here we have an anecdote ; for on quitting the city he is reported to have said , " O Athens , what three monsters dost thou love ! the owl ...
... NIEBUHR . Demosthenes went into exile , first , perhaps , to Megara , and afterwards to Ægina . Here we have an anecdote ; for on quitting the city he is reported to have said , " O Athens , what three monsters dost thou love ! the owl ...
42. oldal
... NIEBUHR . In the meantime Mummius arrived and took the place of Metellus . He had no such feelings towards the Achæans as his predecessor , who returned to Rome . Mummius now had an army of 23,000 foot and three thousand horse , while ...
... NIEBUHR . In the meantime Mummius arrived and took the place of Metellus . He had no such feelings towards the Achæans as his predecessor , who returned to Rome . Mummius now had an army of 23,000 foot and three thousand horse , while ...
43. oldal
... NIEBUHR . At Tarentum too the people were not in any hurry about the war , and a party of peace were for negotiating ; since the Romans , notwithstanding their distance , were very dangerous to the Tarentines , for the Romans had been ...
... NIEBUHR . At Tarentum too the people were not in any hurry about the war , and a party of peace were for negotiating ; since the Romans , notwithstanding their distance , were very dangerous to the Tarentines , for the Romans had been ...
44. oldal
... NIEBUHR . Perseus from the beginning made preparations against the Romans ; he commenced negotiations with Prusias and Antiochus , nay even with Eumenes , and endeavoured to gain popularity among the Greeks . At Athens and in Achaia all ...
... NIEBUHR . Perseus from the beginning made preparations against the Romans ; he commenced negotiations with Prusias and Antiochus , nay even with Eumenes , and endeavoured to gain popularity among the Greeks . At Athens and in Achaia all ...
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Achæans advantage agere agreeable Alcibiades ambassador animo answer Antiochus army arrived asked Athenians Athens Attus audire augury battle believe Brutus Cæsar Callicrates caravansary causâ celebrated character Cicero citizen commanded condemned conjunctive mood consul Coriolanus Creon danger death declared delight dervise Dixit drachmas enemy exiles facere favourable fear feeling friends friendship gain give glory gods Greeks guards hand Hannibal honour hopes horse Ides of March Italy judgment kind king labour Lacedæmonians learning live Macedonia main verb mankind Metellus MIDDLETON mind Mummius MURETUS nature never NIEBUHR occasion one's pacem Pausanias peace Pelias Perseus pleasure poets praise prince Pyrrhus quâ Romans Rome Samnites says senate sent sentence slaves soldiers SPECTATOR Syphax talents thing thing-qd thou thought Thrasybulus tion took town troops Tullus Veientians verb victory virtue Volscians warning word
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67. oldal - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
65. oldal - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
52. oldal - Gospel the words of our Saviour Christ, that he commanded the children to be brought unto him; how he blamed those that would have kept them from him; how he exhorteth all men to follow their innocency. Ye perceive how by his outward gesture and deed he declared his good will toward them; for he embraced them in his arms, he laid his hands upon them, and blessed them.
68. oldal - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
61. oldal - To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind ; indeed the necessary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar.
17. oldal - Balk, went into the king's palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn or p3 caravansary. Having looked about him for some time, he entered into a long gallery, where he laid down his wallet, and spread his carpet, in order to repose himself upon it, after the manner of the eastern nations. He had not been long in this posture...
60. oldal - Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.
74. oldal - The first does much harm to mankind ; and a little good too, to some few : the second does good to none ; no, not to himself. The first can make no excuse to God, or angels, or rational men, for his actions : the second can give no reason or colour, not to the devil himself, for what he does ; he is a slave to Mammon without wages. The first makes a shift to be beloved ; ay, and envied too by some people : the second is the universal object of hatred and contempt.
62. oldal - Cicero chose the middle way between the obstinacy of Cato, and the indolence of Atticus : he preferred always the readiest road to what was right, if it lay open to him ; if not, took the next, that seemed likely...
67. oldal - ... thou fallest from thy employment in public, take sanctuary in an honest retirement, being indifferent to thy gain abroad, or thy safety at home. If thou art out of favour with thy prince, secure the favour of the King of kings, and then there is no harm come to thee. And when Zeno Citiensis...