Continuous Latin prose, exercises1880 |
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... whole passage . This clause is not co - ordinate and capable of being separately stated by itself . It is subordinate , conjunctive or conjoined , not independent . Nor has the principal clause often any meaning without the subjunctive ...
... whole passage . This clause is not co - ordinate and capable of being separately stated by itself . It is subordinate , conjunctive or conjoined , not independent . Nor has the principal clause often any meaning without the subjunctive ...
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... whole of any passages he may have translated from Latin . Thus only can the ear be trained to the rhythm and cadence of Latin sentences . 4. His teacher should direct his attention from the first to the order of words , use of ...
... whole of any passages he may have translated from Latin . Thus only can the ear be trained to the rhythm and cadence of Latin sentences . 4. His teacher should direct his attention from the first to the order of words , use of ...
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... whole household ) , genius ( genius is a spirit ) , genuine , gratitude , Gentiles , honest , horrify , humour , inspiration , imagine , illicit , impossible , impostor , indiscreet , inhabit , intellect , intention , impatience ...
... whole household ) , genius ( genius is a spirit ) , genuine , gratitude , Gentiles , honest , horrify , humour , inspiration , imagine , illicit , impossible , impostor , indiscreet , inhabit , intellect , intention , impatience ...
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... whole army was fast asleep . While he was thus musing with himself on his own destiny and that of his country , he observed behind him a spectre of dreadful aspect , and on his asking what dæmon or mortal it was , " I am , " replied the ...
... whole army was fast asleep . While he was thus musing with himself on his own destiny and that of his country , he observed behind him a spectre of dreadful aspect , and on his asking what dæmon or mortal it was , " I am , " replied the ...
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... during his whole life he never laughed . He is credited with a saying , 1 that no man was to be called rich , or was fit to be a general , whose yearly income was not sufficient for the maintenance of 52 Idiomatic Exercises .
... during his whole life he never laughed . He is credited with a saying , 1 that no man was to be called rich , or was fit to be a general , whose yearly income was not sufficient for the maintenance of 52 Idiomatic Exercises .
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Seite 163 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Seite 163 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Seite 162 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Seite 87 - Then he asked her also what he had best to do further to them. So she asked him what they were, whence they came, and whither they were bound, and he told her. Then she counselled him, that when he arose in the morning he should beat them without mercy.
Seite 164 - I am a solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be...
Seite 172 - But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in their common order ; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and...
Seite 161 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man.
Seite 153 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.
Seite 162 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...
Seite 157 - I took to be of a child, which complained ' it could not get out. ' — I look'd up and down the passage, and, seeing neither man, woman, nor child, I went out without further attention. In my return back through the passage, I heard the same words repeated twice over ; and looking up, I saw it was a starling hung in a little cage. — 'I can't get out — I can't get out,