Exercises in Latin prose composition, with intr., notes |
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... devoted to wealth , some to learning ; others place happiness in holding public office ; the rest of mankind believe that pleasure is the highest good . EXERCISE XXXIII . ( Gerund and Gerundive . See L. 28 [ PART I. PRONOUNS , ETC.
... devoted to wealth , some to learning ; others place happiness in holding public office ; the rest of mankind believe that pleasure is the highest good . EXERCISE XXXIII . ( Gerund and Gerundive . See L. 28 [ PART I. PRONOUNS , ETC.
Page 29
... happiness . 4. He was desirous of hearing all the best speakers . 5. The desire of ruling is common to all men : but some men are born to rule , others to obey . 6. He sent his horsemen to lay waste the fields . 7. Cæsar brought upon ...
... happiness . 4. He was desirous of hearing all the best speakers . 5. The desire of ruling is common to all men : but some men are born to rule , others to obey . 6. He sent his horsemen to lay waste the fields . 7. Cæsar brought upon ...
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... happiness . 3. Those men who take the greatest pains to secure happiness are generally less successful in the search than those who think only of the good of others . 4. As the Romans began to retreat at that point , M. Valerius , who ...
... happiness . 3. Those men who take the greatest pains to secure happiness are generally less successful in the search than those who think only of the good of others . 4. As the Romans began to retreat at that point , M. Valerius , who ...
Page 80
... happiness : but if you were to be convicted of treachery , I should envy you no more . 8. If the senate had permitted Cæsar to stand for the consulship in absence , all these senators would not have been slain , and the Republic would ...
... happiness : but if you were to be convicted of treachery , I should envy you no more . 8. If the senate had permitted Cæsar to stand for the consulship in absence , all these senators would not have been slain , and the Republic would ...
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... happiness ; though she always kept a small string about its leg , nor would ever trust it with the liberty of flying away . EXERCISE CII . Among the most important gods of the Romans was the celebrated Janus , a deity quite unknown to ...
... happiness ; though she always kept a small string about its leg , nor would ever trust it with the liberty of flying away . EXERCISE CII . Among the most important gods of the Romans was the celebrated Janus , a deity quite unknown to ...
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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?