Letters, Sentences, and MaximsPutnam, 1888 - 327 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 4
... hope with a black - lead brush to suit their purposes , but these brilliant fellows are , as usual , false . James Boswell , the biographer , who knew him , says truly enough : " Mr. Stan- hope's character has been unjustly represented ...
... hope with a black - lead brush to suit their purposes , but these brilliant fellows are , as usual , false . James Boswell , the biographer , who knew him , says truly enough : " Mr. Stan- hope's character has been unjustly represented ...
Σελίδα 14
... hope . He was in too great a hurry and took the wrong road . Robert Walpole , less active , and with less apparent skill , took his measures and made his calcula- tions better . Thrown with éclat into the opposition , espe- cially from ...
... hope . He was in too great a hurry and took the wrong road . Robert Walpole , less active , and with less apparent skill , took his measures and made his calcula- tions better . Thrown with éclat into the opposition , espe- cially from ...
Σελίδα 19
... hope is no more than eight years old when his father suits a little rhetoric to his juvenile un- derstanding , and tries to show him how to use good language , and to express himself well . He especially recommends to him attention in ...
... hope is no more than eight years old when his father suits a little rhetoric to his juvenile un- derstanding , and tries to show him how to use good language , and to express himself well . He especially recommends to him attention in ...
Σελίδα 35
... hope for at our age . Cicero wrote a beauti- ful treatise upon old age , but he did not verify his words by deeds ; his last years were very unhappy . You have lived longer and more happily than he did . You have had to do neither with ...
... hope for at our age . Cicero wrote a beauti- ful treatise upon old age , but he did not verify his words by deeds ; his last years were very unhappy . You have lived longer and more happily than he did . You have had to do neither with ...
Σελίδα 39
... hope , by these examples , you understand the meaning of the word de- cency , which in French is bienséance ; in Latin , decorum ; and in Greek , πрέπоν . Cicero says of it , Sic hoc decorum quod elucet in vitâ , movet approbationem ...
... hope , by these examples , you understand the meaning of the word de- cency , which in French is bienséance ; in Latin , decorum ; and in Greek , πрέπоν . Cicero says of it , Sic hoc decorum quod elucet in vitâ , movet approbationem ...
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