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... it is a mental gymnastic that must benefit our reasoning faculties , just as fresh air and exercise benefit our bodies . A THE COMPARISON OF ENGLISH WITH LATIN . 1. A full INTRODUCTORY: THE USE OF LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION ·
... it is a mental gymnastic that must benefit our reasoning faculties , just as fresh air and exercise benefit our bodies . A THE COMPARISON OF ENGLISH WITH LATIN . 1. A full INTRODUCTORY: THE USE OF LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION ·
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... body might not be exposed to birds or wild beasts . 8 1. pompa . 2. was going . 3. wished . 4. flectere . 5. adesse . 6. simultas . 7. for the last time . 8. proicere . 9. Patient Grissel . 4 III . Four years afterwards 40 Exercises .
... body might not be exposed to birds or wild beasts . 8 1. pompa . 2. was going . 3. wished . 4. flectere . 5. adesse . 6. simultas . 7. for the last time . 8. proicere . 9. Patient Grissel . 4 III . Four years afterwards 40 Exercises .
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... bodies of the dead with wax to retard decomposition . It was a rule with the Magi in Media ( a caste3 which superintended the worship of certain deities , a thing forbidden to all else ) not to bury the bodies of their friends before ...
... bodies of the dead with wax to retard decomposition . It was a rule with the Magi in Media ( a caste3 which superintended the worship of certain deities , a thing forbidden to all else ) not to bury the bodies of their friends before ...
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... body of a murdered man . It had been sitting for three days by the body , unfed , and refusing to leave it . The king , touched with pity , ordered the corpse to be buried and the dog to be taken away and kindly treated . A few days ...
... body of a murdered man . It had been sitting for three days by the body , unfed , and refusing to leave it . The king , touched with pity , ordered the corpse to be buried and the dog to be taken away and kindly treated . A few days ...
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... body . And indeed , as at first even the worst princes are often good , he kept giving many signs of a disposition at once well controlled and highly cultivated . " But shortly , just as if he wished to free himself from his human ...
... body . And indeed , as at first even the worst princes are often good , he kept giving many signs of a disposition at once well controlled and highly cultivated . " But shortly , just as if he wished to free himself from his human ...
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Seite 135 - If there be but one body of legislators, it is no better than a tyranny; if there are only two, there will want a casting voice...
Seite 189 - Phaedra and Hippolitus) for a people to be so stupidly fond of the Italian opera, as scarce to give a third day's hearing to that admirable tragedy ? Music is certainly a very agreeable entertainment : but if it would take the entire possession of our ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing sense, if it would exclude arts that have a much greater tendency to the refinement of human nature ; I must confess I would allow it no better quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his commonwealth.
Seite 117 - How many things are there which* a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and a number of the like: but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Seite 189 - At present our notions of music are so very uncertain that we do not know what it is we like ; only, in general, we are transported with anything that is not English. So it be of a foreign growth, let it be Italian, French, or high Dutch, it is the same thing. In short, our English music is quite rooted out, and nothing yet planted in its stead.
Seite 186 - We shall next be told," exclaims Seneca, "that the first shoemaker was a philosopher." For our own part, if we are forced to make our choice between the first shoemaker and the author of the three books "On Anger," we pronounce for the shoemaker.
Seite 158 - ... ease, and very little for the enjoyment of private pleasure ; that, either in a pacific or hostile manner, he had visited Germany nine times, Spain six times, France four times, Italy seven times, the Low...
Seite 158 - Charles then rose from his seat, and leaning on the shoulder of the prince of Orange, because he was unable to stand without support, he addressed himself to the audience, and from a paper which he held in his hand, in order to assist his memory, he recounted...
Seite 170 - Sometimes he employed all the arts of insinuation, to soothe his men. Sometimes he endeavoured to work upon their ambition or avarice, by magnificent descriptions of the fame and wealth which they were about to acquire. On other occasions, he Assumed a tone of authority, and threatened them with vengeance from their sovereign, if, by their dastardly...
Seite 186 - For our own part, if we are forced to make our choice between the first shoemaker, and the author of the three books On Anger, we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to be wet. But shoes have kept millions from being wet ; and we doubt whether Seneca ever kept any body from being angry.