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... phrases . For a similar reason I have given no Vocabulary . I object entirely to the system now so popular amongst schoolmasters of making everything so easy to a learner that it is impossible for him to go wrong . If a student has a ...
... phrases . For a similar reason I have given no Vocabulary . I object entirely to the system now so popular amongst schoolmasters of making everything so easy to a learner that it is impossible for him to go wrong . If a student has a ...
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George Gilbert Ramsay. has a Vocabulary which gives him the exact word or phrase to use , he has no thought , no choice ... phrases which he needs ready - made , the whole good of the process is at an end . The art of compiling for boys ...
George Gilbert Ramsay. has a Vocabulary which gives him the exact word or phrase to use , he has no thought , no choice ... phrases which he needs ready - made , the whole good of the process is at an end . The art of compiling for boys ...
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... phrases as occur will be found given in full in Ramsay's Manual of Antiquities . My best thanks are due to the Dean of Westminster , Professor Butcher , and Mr. Arthur Sidgwick , who have kindly supplied me with some English passages of ...
... phrases as occur will be found given in full in Ramsay's Manual of Antiquities . My best thanks are due to the Dean of Westminster , Professor Butcher , and Mr. Arthur Sidgwick , who have kindly supplied me with some English passages of ...
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... phrases chosen to translate the English must be either such as are actually used by Latin authors , or such as a Latin author might be expected to use , to convey a similar meaning . I. To the first , and most indispensable of these ...
... phrases chosen to translate the English must be either such as are actually used by Latin authors , or such as a Latin author might be expected to use , to convey a similar meaning . I. To the first , and most indispensable of these ...
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... phrase , place them in such an order as to bring out clearly their connection with each other . Thus for ' A man with white hair , ' it would be better to say ... phrases , see Introduction to Part III xxii INTRODUCTION TO PARTS I. AND 11 .
... phrase , place them in such an order as to bring out clearly their connection with each other . Thus for ' A man with white hair , ' it would be better to say ... phrases , see Introduction to Part III xxii INTRODUCTION TO PARTS I. AND 11 .
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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
Popular passages
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?