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action adeo agere alicui alicujus aliquem aliquid aliquo aliud animi animo applied ascer atque auctor auctoritas autem Cæsar celsus Cicero ciii copia derived dicendi dicere ejus English enim esset etsi exempli exemplum expressed facere facio facit feci fecit force fuit Greek habere hæc hanc homines hominum idea idem illis illud illum implies indicates inter Latin language lexicographers magis meaning metaphorical mihi mind modo moral naturâ neque nihil nobis nunc object Officiis omnes omni omnia omnium oppidum oratio possum potest præcepta precise primary sense propter quæ qualis quam quamquam quibus quid quidem Quintilian quisque quod quoque rationem reader rebus recte refer rerum sæpe Scheller Secondly sed etiam sensus sententia sibi signifies similis sint sive solum substantive sunt talis tamen tametsi tantum tempore tempus thing tibi tion usum usus verb vero vitæ words writers
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Page 1 - Fortunasque tuas omneis turbare timore. Even these abuses of words make the use of philology, in the true sense of that most abused term, more evident. For the cure must often be derived, not immediately from the realities of life, but from a keen and laborious examination of these winged nothings. The self-deceived enchanter cannot be led forth at once into the light of day, but some time and trouble must be expended in showing him that his magic circle is but a chalked line, his fumigation but...
Page 57 - Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim, cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum, confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.
Page 97 - Sententia est oratio sumpta de vita quae aut quid sit aut quid esse oporteat in vita breviter ostendit, hoc pacto : " Difficile est primum quidque.
Page 104 - Et hercules hae quidem exstant ; ipsae enim familiae sua quasi ornamenta ac monumenta servabant, et ad usum, si quis ejusdem generis occidisset, et ad memoriam laudum domesticarum , et ad illustrandam nobilitatem suam : quanquam his laudationibus historia rerum nostrarum est facta mendosior.
Page 115 - Instat enim et urget et quo te cumque verteris persequitur, sive tu vatem sive tu omen audieris, sive immolaris sive avem aspexeris, si Chaldaeum, si haruspicem videris, si fulserit, si tonuerit, si tactum aliquid erit de caelo, si ostenti simile natum factumve quippiam : quorum necesse est plerumque aliquid eveniat ut numquam liceat quieta mente consistere.
Page 141 - Id si nec majus nec minus unquam fieri potest (quoniam in eo est peccatum, si non licuit ; quod semper unum et idem est) quae ex eo peccata nascuntur, aequalia sint oportet.
Page xix - Aoyn; to signify the faculty of reason, a process of reasoning, and a sound expressing each step in that process, that they esteemed words not so unimportant as many of our realists would lead us to consider them — indeed, that they conceived themselves to ascend from the first lispings of childhood, through a process of reasoning founded on language to the full development of the power of thought. They were weak enough to believe, that to acquire welldefined signs of ideas was to obtain definite...
Page 3 - ... acuteness and diligence) to disinter their thoughts and feelings from the solid flood of ignorance, which the destruction of so many valuable sources of information has poured on their works, farther increased by the heavy matter accumulated through ages of dictionary makers and commentators, yet the labor of the diligent student will at length effect its object. He will again walk in their deserted streets, and almost imagine that he hears the busy hum of life around him ; he will be a spectator...
Page 115 - Rutulorum quidam generis; ceterum 3 in tantas brevi creverant opes seu maritimis seu terrestribus fructibus seu multitudinis incremento seu disciplinae sanctitate, qua fidem socialem usque ad perniciem suam coluerunt.
Page 133 - Nihil sane, nisi illud: valde me Athenae delectarunt: urbs dumtaxat, et urbis ornamentum, et hominum amores in te, et in nos quaedam benevolentia : sed multum et philosophia.