Exercises in Latin prose composition, with intr., notes |
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... fears or disappoint their hopes , they will abuse you and fail you in time of danger . 7. A private individual is permitted to be just ; those raised to office must obey the orders of the people without regard for justice . 8. Having ...
... fears or disappoint their hopes , they will abuse you and fail you in time of danger . 7. A private individual is permitted to be just ; those raised to office must obey the orders of the people without regard for justice . 8. Having ...
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... fear rather than through affection . 3. There is need of haste , you say , rather than of de- liberation : but those who feel no anxiety , and decide with rashness , will learn when too late that they PART I. ] 23 DATIVE , ABLATIVE ...
... fear rather than through affection . 3. There is need of haste , you say , rather than of de- liberation : but those who feel no anxiety , and decide with rashness , will learn when too late that they PART I. ] 23 DATIVE , ABLATIVE ...
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... fear or favour : whatever command I give shall be executed . 6. When you return to the city you will hear that I have been acquitted of the charge of bribery . 7. As soon as my father has breathed his last I shall return to Rome , for ...
... fear or favour : whatever command I give shall be executed . 6. When you return to the city you will hear that I have been acquitted of the charge of bribery . 7. As soon as my father has breathed his last I shall return to Rome , for ...
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... was afraid that the enemy would depart . I shall be afraid that the enemy depart . 3. I fear that these waters are not doing you good . I feared that these waters were not doing you good . 58 [ PART II . , INDIRECT COMMAND .
... was afraid that the enemy would depart . I shall be afraid that the enemy depart . 3. I fear that these waters are not doing you good . I feared that these waters were not doing you good . 58 [ PART II . , INDIRECT COMMAND .
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George Gilbert Ramsay. feared that these waters were not doing you good . I fear that these waters have not done you good . I fear that these waters are not likely to do you good . There will be a danger of the enemy making an assault ...
George Gilbert Ramsay. feared that these waters were not doing you good . I fear that these waters have not done you good . I fear that these waters are not likely to do you good . There will be a danger of the enemy making an assault ...
Common terms and phrases
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?