Exercises in Latin prose composition, with intr., notes |
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... mood of the Verb in the Adjectival clause . The Verb will be in the Indicative mood , unless the meaning of the principal clause on which it depends be such as to require the Subjunctive . Care , however , must be taken to distinguish ...
... mood of the Verb in the Adjectival clause . The Verb will be in the Indicative mood , unless the meaning of the principal clause on which it depends be such as to require the Subjunctive . Care , however , must be taken to distinguish ...
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... Mood for Verbs in Principal Clauses in Oratio Obliqua , so the Subjunctive is the universal Mood to be employed for Verbs in Indirect Questions . Thus the question , ( Quota hora est ? What o'clock is it ? ' becomes , when put ...
... Mood for Verbs in Principal Clauses in Oratio Obliqua , so the Subjunctive is the universal Mood to be employed for Verbs in Indirect Questions . Thus the question , ( Quota hora est ? What o'clock is it ? ' becomes , when put ...
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... Mood of Verbs in Subor- dinate Clauses of Oratio Obliqua is precisely similar to that for Indirect Questions . The Mood must always be the Subjunctive ; and the Tense depends partly upon the Tense of the Verb introducing the Oratio ...
... Mood of Verbs in Subor- dinate Clauses of Oratio Obliqua is precisely similar to that for Indirect Questions . The Mood must always be the Subjunctive ; and the Tense depends partly upon the Tense of the Verb introducing the Oratio ...
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... mood is appropriate to each . The following is a list of the principal subordinating con- junctions in Latin , with ... Subjunctive . 2. CONSECUTIVE : ut , ut non , quin , invariably followed by the Subjunctive . 3. CAUSAL : quod , quia ...
... mood is appropriate to each . The following is a list of the principal subordinating con- junctions in Latin , with ... Subjunctive . 2. CONSECUTIVE : ut , ut non , quin , invariably followed by the Subjunctive . 3. CAUSAL : quod , quia ...
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... Subjunctive . So with antequam , priusquam , etc. A peculiar idiom is that quum with the Imperfect or Pluperfect invariably requires the Subjunctive mood . 6. CONDITIONAL : si , nisi , sive , dum , modo : almost in- variably followed by ...
... Subjunctive . So with antequam , priusquam , etc. A peculiar idiom is that quum with the Imperfect or Pluperfect invariably requires the Subjunctive mood . 6. CONDITIONAL : si , nisi , sive , dum , modo : almost in- variably followed by ...
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Ablative Absolute arms army asked Athens battle Brutus Cæsar camp Carthage Carthaginians cause Cicero citizens Clarendon Press Series cloth command consul consulship continued Crown 8vo death Decius Demy 8vo emperor enemy EXERCISE Extra fcap father favour fear feel followed fortune friends Gauls George Saintsbury give Greek Hannibal happiness heart History honour hope horse human Indirect Question Introducing Verb Introduction and Notes Julius Cæsar king Latin Latin Prose live M.A. Extra fcap M.A. Second Edition means mind nature never night noble Oratio Obliqua Oxford passage passion patricians peace persons phrases Pompey present prince principles quum Romans Rome Romulus rule Samnites Senate sent sentences sesterces soldiers spirit Subjunctive Subjunctive Mood Subordinate Clause Tense things Third Edition thought tion translated truth Veientines victory virtue W. W. Skeat whole words writing youth
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Page 296 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?
Page 302 - State or neighborhood ; when I refuse, for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South, and if, moved by local prejudice or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, — may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Page 238 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 296 - Gentlemen may cry: Peace, peace! — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!
Page 296 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 182 - The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention ; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary.
Page 284 - You have heard as much before; — yet have you measured and mapped out this short life and its possibilities ? Do you know, if you read this, that you cannot read that — that what you lose to-day you cannot gain to-morrow ? Will you go and gossip with your housemaid, or your stable-boy, when you may talk with queens and kings...
Page 313 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family: I should have left a son who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in...
Page 231 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
Page 296 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?