Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few WordsPorter & Coates, 1871 - 504 sider |
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Side 27
... Cicero observed to a degenerate patrician , ' I am the first of my family , but you are the last of yours . ' And since his time , those who value themselves merely on their ancestry , have been compared to potatoes , all that is good ...
... Cicero observed to a degenerate patrician , ' I am the first of my family , but you are the last of yours . ' And since his time , those who value themselves merely on their ancestry , have been compared to potatoes , all that is good ...
Side 131
... Cicero , Horace , Virgil , Hortensius , Augustus , and Marcus Varro , were contemporaries , that they were , at the same time , enclosed within the walls of the same city , which might well be termed ' Roma virum genitrix ; * and when ...
... Cicero , Horace , Virgil , Hortensius , Augustus , and Marcus Varro , were contemporaries , that they were , at the same time , enclosed within the walls of the same city , which might well be termed ' Roma virum genitrix ; * and when ...
Side 132
... Cicero , though he was formed both for action and deliberation , yet none of the blood that was spilt in his day , can fairly be charged to him , in fact , he had so much of the pliability of his friend Atticus about him , that he might ...
... Cicero , though he was formed both for action and deliberation , yet none of the blood that was spilt in his day , can fairly be charged to him , in fact , he had so much of the pliability of his friend Atticus about him , that he might ...
Side 200
... Cicero failed in poetry , Pope in paint- ing , Addison in oratory , yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men . As a man cannot be tairly termed a poor man , who has a large property in the funds , but nothing in land , so we ...
... Cicero failed in poetry , Pope in paint- ing , Addison in oratory , yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men . As a man cannot be tairly termed a poor man , who has a large property in the funds , but nothing in land , so we ...
Side 204
... Cicero has termed them interzisiva tempora , and the ancients were not ig- norant of their value ; nay , it was not unusual with them either to compose or to dictate , while under the operation of rubbing after the bath . Arbitration ...
... Cicero has termed them interzisiva tempora , and the ancients were not ig- norant of their value ; nay , it was not unusual with them either to compose or to dictate , while under the operation of rubbing after the bath . Arbitration ...
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