A new dictionary of quotations from the Greek, Latin, and modern languages, tr. by the author of 'Live and learn'.1859 |
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... expressions in frequent use but imperfectly understood , and terms which have wandered far from their original import , have been freely incorporated in the work . The value of this Dictionary is greatly enhanced by the DICTIONARY OF ...
... expressions in frequent use but imperfectly understood , and terms which have wandered far from their original import , have been freely incorporated in the work . The value of this Dictionary is greatly enhanced by the DICTIONARY OF ...
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... expression " 1b ovo usque ad mala , " which literally means , From the egg to the apples , in allusion to the custom among the Romans of beginning their dinner or supper with eggs , and finishing with apples . WE use the ex- pression to ...
... expression " 1b ovo usque ad mala , " which literally means , From the egg to the apples , in allusion to the custom among the Romans of beginning their dinner or supper with eggs , and finishing with apples . WE use the ex- pression to ...
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... expression of " All the Russias " is founded on the ancient division of Russia , which comprehended the provinces of Great or Black Russia , Little or Red Russia , and White Russia . St. Petersburg , the capital of Russia , took its ...
... expression of " All the Russias " is founded on the ancient division of Russia , which comprehended the provinces of Great or Black Russia , Little or Red Russia , and White Russia . St. Petersburg , the capital of Russia , took its ...
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... expression " de lana caprina rixari " is a proverbial one , and is well explained by the scholiast [ commentator ] : " To dispute about goat's - wool , " that is , about nothing , since a goat is covered with hair , and not with wool ...
... expression " de lana caprina rixari " is a proverbial one , and is well explained by the scholiast [ commentator ] : " To dispute about goat's - wool , " that is , about nothing , since a goat is covered with hair , and not with wool ...
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... expression , do really signify quite a different thing from the ball of the eye ; the Gr . words are TapevoC [ parthenos ] , kopn [ kore ] , and was [ pais ] , and the Lat . word is pupilla ; all which signify what is commonly called ...
... expression , do really signify quite a different thing from the ball of the eye ; the Gr . words are TapevoC [ parthenos ] , kopn [ kore ] , and was [ pais ] , and the Lat . word is pupilla ; all which signify what is commonly called ...
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Page 180 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 49 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 3 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
Page 143 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
Page 406 - Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia : navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis hic est, Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.
Page 427 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek.
Page 98 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 21 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain.
Page 229 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Page 116 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.