Easy Passages for Translation Into LatinClarendon Press, 1889 - 169 oldal |
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Alexander Alp Arslan answered appeared Ariaeus arms army arrived asked Athenian attack barbarians battle began Bello Gallico body Brutus Cæsar camp Carthaginians cavalry Cicero command consul Count of Foix courage Croesus danger dark death defended Democritus dervise emperor enemy Epaminondas escaped Eudemus Eumenes exclaimed father fear fell follow force fortune friends Gaston Gaul gave give glory gods Greeks ground guard hands heard honour hopes horse hundred Jupiter killed king labour live Livy look Lucullus Marius master Master Doctor Menippus messenger mountain Mysians nature never night Pausanias Persian philosopher plain Pompey prisoner Protagoras Pyrrhus Quæst quoth replied returned river Roman Rome Samnites seized Senate sent shew ships side soldiers soon Spaniards Suetonius summit sword Tacitus tell thee thou told took town troops Tusc victory wound young
Népszerű szakaszok
153. oldal - I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
151. oldal - But the answer was that nothing could be done" without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
82. oldal - ... away but half the time. When the birth approaches, with how much nicety and attention does she help the chick to break its prison! Not to take notice of her covering it from the...
65. oldal - At the same, time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them : cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.
150. oldal - Nothing in history or fiction, not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after he had wiped his bloody lips on the scalp of his murderer, approaches the horrors which were recounted by the few survivors of that night.
85. oldal - The Spaniards, while thus employed, were surrounded by many of the natives, who gazed in silent admiration upon actions which they could not comprehend, and of which they did not foresee the consequences.
83. oldal - ... of thought or common sense. She mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it in the same manner. She is insensible of any increase or diminution in the number of those she lays. She does...
150. oldal - When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion.
61. oldal - The Prospect of a future State is the secret Comfort and Refreshment of my Soul; it is that which makes Nature look gay about me; it doubles all my Pleasures, and supports me under all my Afflictions. I can look at Disappointments and Misfortunes, Pain and Sickness, Death it self, and, what is worse than Death, the Loss of those who are dearest to me, with Indifference, so long as I keep in view the Pleasures of Eternity, and the State of Being in which there will be no Fears nor Apprehensions, Pains...
59. oldal - The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader, as those accounts which we meet with of the deaths of eminent persons, and of their behaviour in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in history which affect or please the reader in so sensible a manner.