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... illa Sallustiana brevitas qua nihil apud vacuas et eruditas aures potest esse perfectius . His style and other historical characteristics were imitations of Thucydides , especially his psychological treat- ment of his subject , his ...
... illa Sallustiana brevitas qua nihil apud vacuas et eruditas aures potest esse perfectius . His style and other historical characteristics were imitations of Thucydides , especially his psychological treat- ment of his subject , his ...
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... illa , narrat haec , sed aliter : huic pleraque humilia et sordida et ex medio petita , illi omnia recondita splendida excelsa conveniunt : hanc saepius ossa musculi nervi , illam tori quidam et quasi iubae decent : haec vel maxime vi ...
... illa , narrat haec , sed aliter : huic pleraque humilia et sordida et ex medio petita , illi omnia recondita splendida excelsa conveniunt : hanc saepius ossa musculi nervi , illam tori quidam et quasi iubae decent : haec vel maxime vi ...
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... illa praesidia , quae pro templis omnibus cer- Io nitis , etsi contra vim collocata sunt , non afferunt tamen oratori aliquid , ut in foro et in iudicio , quamquam praesi- diis salutaribus et necessariis saepti sumus , tamen ne non ...
... illa praesidia , quae pro templis omnibus cer- Io nitis , etsi contra vim collocata sunt , non afferunt tamen oratori aliquid , ut in foro et in iudicio , quamquam praesi- diis salutaribus et necessariis saepti sumus , tamen ne non ...
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... Cluentio , sed contra Cluentium : faciam- que , ut intelligatis , in tota illa causa quid res ipsa tulerit , quid error affinxerit , quid invidia conflarit . CIC . p . Clu . Exordium . Propositio Partitio , 5 and I am not.
... Cluentio , sed contra Cluentium : faciam- que , ut intelligatis , in tota illa causa quid res ipsa tulerit , quid error affinxerit , quid invidia conflarit . CIC . p . Clu . Exordium . Propositio Partitio , 5 and I am not.
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... illa , qua me hic uti noluit , minus laboris futurum . CIC . p . Cluent . 6. Novum crimen , Gai Caesar , et ante hunc diem non audi- tum propinquus meus ad te Q. Tubero detulit , Q. Ligarium in Africa fuisse , idque C. Pansa ...
... illa , qua me hic uti noluit , minus laboris futurum . CIC . p . Cluent . 6. Novum crimen , Gai Caesar , et ante hunc diem non audi- tum propinquus meus ad te Q. Tubero detulit , Q. Ligarium in Africa fuisse , idque C. Pansa ...
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abstract adjectives alia animi animo appeared apud army atque autem body Burke called causa cause Cicero clauses common effect eius English enim erat especially esse esset etiam existence expressed Extracts figures fuit give haec hands Historical homines human igitur illa illi inter ipsa ipse ipsi iudices Latin live Livy lords means mihi mind modo nature necessary necesse neque never nihil nisi object omnes omni omnia omnium participle passed period persons points possit potest present quae quam quibus quid quidem quis quod quum repetition rerum rhetorical Romani rule Sallust sense sentence simple sine style sunt Tacitus tamen things tibi translated verb vero vita
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Page 55 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 55 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 45 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 55 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 55 - IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.
Page 47 - We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die; die Colonists; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it .so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim -shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have .a country, or at least the hope of a country, and that a free country.
Page 9 - Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach I will not, sir, assume the province of determining; — but surely age may become justly contemptible if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided.
Page 47 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time, when .this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die, colonists ; die, slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold.
Page 9 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Page 45 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land.