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... transparencies of most humans were in order--the last of which would be old age and decay but what was written on them was meaningless. His transpare... ...e pool, a sadness at the loss of his friendship with Yang Kwam made him feel age that he did not possess. He watched a couple young men stretch out in... ...ool restored to his euphoria as his father strutted his work talk to men his age seated on other stools. Walking from the mokotong he thought of a sto... ...ly. Once she had to translate Thuc's "New House Rules for Immigrants" to the Latinos as they sat before her on metal seats. They were lectured that t... ... baby crying. Maybe too much light in the trailer was irritating his eyes. A silver light from the glare of the snow with its power to make objects (e... ...lled prophet, Joseph Smith had been-only, being atheist, her pillar was only silver. She knew that a personification of the sun was absurd, as was al... ...ands for schoolboys. There wasn't gold in the hills but there was plenty of silver and paper to come into such wealthy homes bringing to families and... ...he zoo animals in English, German, and Spanish. He couldn't sputter out the Latin so she had to give up on pushing that language into his head since ... ...e American. An American is from everywhere." "I know English well, and I am Latino so I guess IﾁOm American as apple pie." "You seem to think we have...

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......................................................... 412 CHAPTER LVII OF AGE .......................................................................... ...cing his language and phrase- ology to the language and phraseology of the age and coun- try to which they belonged, and, moreover, inserting para- gr... ...portant assis- tance which he has rendered to me in verifying and retrans- lating the quotations, which were in a most corrupt state, and of which Cot... ...used to awake him by the sound of some agreeable music, and how he learned Latin, without suffering the rod or shed- ding a tear, before beginning Fre... ... of Virgil and Cicero. The study of Greek took precedence. At six years of age young Montaigne went to the College of Guienne at Bordeaux, where he ha... ...ay, the last of February 1571, he caused a philo- sophical inscription, in Latin, to be placed upon one of the walls of his chateau, where it is still... ...r the less temperate and virtuous for knowing that he made use of gold and silver vessels, when the condition of his fortune allowed him so to do; I h... ...! “Totus et argento conflatus, totus et auro;” [“Wholly made up of silver and gold.”—Tibullus, i. 2, 70.] does he not forget his palaces and g... ...is, that they should never ride mule or mulet, upon pen- alty of a mark of silver; this I had lately out of Guevara’s Letters. Whoever gave these the ...

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...hing of the same interest will be found, perhaps, to rekindle at a maturer age, when the characteris- tic features of the individual mind have been un... ...lton. It was easy enough to detect plagiarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had pre... ...en by a Roman senator. He—this imperfectly despicable man—died at an early age, and very soon after the incidents recorded in this chapter, leaving to... ... the last time, the coffin. All eyes survey the record of name, of sex, of age, and the day of departure from earth— records how shadowy! and dropped ... ...r two centuries upon a principle of slight regard to classical literature. Latin literature was very much neglected, and Greek nearly altogether. The ... ...n—that it plays a part not at all less conspicuous or less delicate in the Latin. Here is an instance of its use in Greek, taken from the well-known n... ...jubilee; but on the twenty-fifth an- niversary they have credit only for a silver jubilee. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER V V V V V I AM INTR... ...from amongst us. Something of the same kind has happened in the history of silver forks. Forks of any kind, as is well known, were first introduced in... ...him, stop him! that man’s going to commit suicide.” This anec- dote argues silver forks as existing much more than a cen- tury back, else the squire h...

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...right with gems that they eclipsed the glories of the ex-votos of gold and silver hung up by sailors of the port on the columns in the nave. But all t... ...he vague reminiscence of a sad, deli- cious melody, the air of Fleuve du T age. The woman he loved had played the prelude to the ballad in a boudoir i... ...he church with warmth. The Song of Joy set apart in the sublime liturgy of Latin Chris- tianity to express the exaltation of the soul in the presence ... ...ging as a prima donna’s in the chorus of a finale. It was like a golden or silver thread in dark frieze. It was she! There could be no mistake. Parisi... ...antly struck the General dumb with amazement. “The Holy Mother only speaks Latin and Spanish,” she added. “I understand neither. Dear Antoinette, make... ...nce is as meaningless for po- litical parties as it is for youth. In every age the great nobles, and the rich who always ape the great nobles, build t... ...xistence; the leisure; the higher education at- tainable at a much earlier age; and lastly, the aristocratic tra- dition that makes of him a social fo... ...ey needed its support. While Lamartine, Lamennais, Montalembert, and other writers were putting new life and elevation into men’s ideas of religion, a... ...ion; I am expected to de- lude myself, to be willing to give gold coin for silver to the end. If you can so easily dispense with my visits; if you can...

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...more. Indeed, the fascinating powers of opium are admitted even by medical writers, who are its greatest enemies. Thus, for instance, Awsiter, apothec... ... to use opium as an article of daily diet. In the twenty-eighth year of my age a most painful affection of the stomach, which I had first experi- ence... ...med to me suffi- cient for an indefinite length of time; and at that happy age, if no definite boundary can be assigned to one’s power, the spirit of ... ...ese old people. Cer- tainly, Mr. Shelley is right in his notions about old age: un- less powerfully counteracted by all sorts of opposite agen- cies, ... ... this avowal nor frown; for, not to remind my classical readers of the old Latin proverb, “Sine cerere,” &c., it may well be sup- posed that in the ex... ...nties of M— and Sl— since I had been there, sometimes upon the merits of a Latin poet, and at other times suggesting subjects to me on which he wished... ...ous I call it, for, by some refinement of malice, it spoke in as sweet and silvery tones as if it had been inviting one to a party); its tones have no... ...t end! Fabric it seem’d of diamond, and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted; here, seren... ...own the virtues of opium. To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery expanses of water: these haunted me so much that I feared (though p...

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...s he expected nothing out of the way; he only wanted what the men of his own age and standing did get, and he was no worse qualified for performing dut... ...so he made haste to take him off into his room. Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne. Levin h... ...ters. “Not bad,” he said, stripping the oysters from the pearly shell with a silver fork, and swallowing them one after another. “Not bad,” he repeate... ...other’s duties had become still more difficult. She saw that girls of Kitty’s age formed some sort of clubs, went to some sort of lectures, mixed freel... ... worse. The family doctor gave her cod liver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third were alike in doing ... ...d a brightly lighted table, gleaming with the light of candles, white cloth, silver samovar, and transparent china tea things. The hostess sat down at... ...f the term in the summer holidays. Darya Alexandrovna, who had been studying Latin with her son in Moscow before, had made it a rule on coming to the ... ...vins’ to go over with him, at least once a day, the most difficult lessons of Latin and arith metic. Levin had offered to take her place, but the moth... ...es” (she thought of little Masha’s crime among the raspberries), “education, Latin— it’s all so incomprehensible and difficult. And on the top of it al...

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...rican Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books C... ...rvants but he wasn’t interested. I thought of him as old. But was he old? Age was in his scars, in his streaked hair and beard, the hands lifting an... ...her skin with ointment, and teased her till she made me promise a gift, a silver mirror from Serfo’s shop, one with suitably naughty figures on the ... ...you try? We need new blood.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of so... ...horescence. I was lying on the deck, almost asleep. A flash tore the sky, silver light...it came streaking nearer and nearer. I woke some of my sail... ...shed past the house, forty or more, most of them yelling, one of them, in silver tur- ban, whistling through his fingers, brandishing a scimitar. My ... ... Phaon and Sappho kneel in a grove, a cithara beside them: age-old trees shade the lovers: the age of a ruined temple is part of t... ... arms lay across his lap, fingers up. My father had owned that book. With age it had come unsewed and hung in tatters: the smell of age was there: I... ...e up the Paul Alexander Bartlett Collection held by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a s...

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...XIV . ON EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, WHO DIED IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, 1735. 161 XV . FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. .... ...ife, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six. He resided first at Kensington, and then in Binfield, in ... ...ced under the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- ... ... not good rhymes.” His prin- cipal favourites were Virgil’s “Eclogues,” in Latin; and in English, Spencer, Waller, and Dryden—admiring Spencer, we pre... .... Others have contended that it did not go further than the manners of the age sanctioned; and they say, “a much greater license in conversation and i... ...n his own grounds to her memory, with a simple but striking inscription in Latin. During this year, he pub- 19 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope –... ... A shepherd’s boy (he seeks no better name) Led forth his flocks along the silver Thame, Where dancing sunbeams on the waters play’d, And verdant alde... ...A faithful swain, whom Love had taught to sing, Bewail’d his fate beside a silver spring; Where gentle Thames his winding waters leads Through verdant... ...ne’s fate, and Daphne’s praise! THYRSIS. Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, Their beauty wither’d, and their verdure lost. ...

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...n one of his prologues, that he would never more put pen to paper. Another age, but the same manners. Nothing changes, neither God above nor men below... ...this, used each to make a language for himself, besides the strange Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanish jargo... ...in the earlier period of her life. God had been kind to her, and since the age of seven, she had evaporated nothing ex- cept on the last occasion when... ...t altered to my own style, because I have been compelled to turn them from Latin into French. I commence:—At Poissy the nuns were accustomed to, when ... ... they increased their council by a little novice, about seventeen years of age, who appeared innocent as a new- born babe, and would have had the host... ...at haste, and found a good and substantial supper smiling at them from the silver plates upon the table, and the table well arranged and well lighted,... ... the table, and the table well arranged and well lighted, loaded with fine silver cups, and cups full of royal wine. Then said their master to them— “... ...Sons and Her Lord Spouse Inconsolable. This epitaph was written in elegant Latin, but for the con- venience of all it was necessary to translate it, a... ...golden chande- liers, with many branches, minutely engraved, plates of red silver, cups enriched with stones, emeralds and rubies; to have brought for...

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...r Villaumes, mother and daughter, Milliners in the Rue St.-Martin, give ‘a silver thimble, and a coin of fifteen sous (sevenpence halfpenny),’ with ot... ...ger has only ‘three sous a day:’ the very Emigrants, it is said, will take silver-plate,—by way of re- venge. Clermont, Sainte-Menehould, Varennes esp... ...s edifying to remark, on the other side, what a singular thing Customs (in Latin, Mores) are; and how fitly the Vir- tue, Vir-tus, Manhood or Worth, t... ...asants are hanged; Old-Constituent Honourable members, though of venerable age, ride in carts with their hands tied; these are the woes of war. Thus t... ... the elegant carriages of the Emigrants, many-coloured, lackered, gilt and silvered, evi- dently by the best builders, caught your eye. (See Hermann a... ...lled both with hope of the unutterable, of universal Fraternity and Golden Age; and with terror of the unutterable, Cimmerian Europe all rallying on u... ...en still, now when they have got coats, and speak nasally a kind of broken Latin! But on the whole does not time envelop this present National Convent... ...tone walls answer, None—Has King Louis no friends? Men of action, of cour- age grown desperate, in this his extreme need? King Louis’s friends are fee... ...vant out of place, sayest thou?” Committee-President of Forty-Sous finds a Latin Horace on him: “Art thou not one of those Ci-devants that were wont t...

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...y mother ever wore powder in their hair; both their heads were as white as silver, as I can remem- ber them. My dear mother possessed to the last an e... ...n; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still looked young, and was quite agile. It was not until after tha... ...wears the mask and the cothurnus, and speaks to mea- sure. She too, in our age, busies herself with the affairs only of kings; waiting on them obsequi... ...gistering of the affairs of the common people. I have seen in his very old age and decrepitude the old French King Lewis the Fourteenth, the type and ... ...boyhood, as page, waiting at her chair, bringing her scented water and the silver basin after dinner—sitting on her carriage- step on state occasions,... ...r the kind priest’s orders. At first they read much and regularly, both in Latin and French; the Father not neglecting in anything to impress his fait... ... Book One ugly names, who made nothing of boxing his ears, and tilting the silver basin in his face which it was his business to present to her after ... ..., my son, you may testify, with a safe conscience, that you saw me burning Latin sermons the last time I was here before I went away to London; and it... ...rooper. “Hold thy prate, and read that bit of paper,” says Westbury. “’Tis Latin,” says Dick, glancing at it, and again saluting his of- ficer, “and f...

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...ce in the social scale. When people pass each other on the high seas of life at so early an age, the contact is but slight, and the rela- tion more li... ...n those who had parted in the spring of youth should again drink a cup of kindness in their age. Had not Burns contemplated emigra- tion, I scarce bel... ...from the invisible horrors of a pen where he lay dog-sick upon the upper-shelf, found cour- age, in a blink of his sufferings, to give us several vers... ...other, use almost every carpenter’s tool, and make picture frames to boot. ‘I sat down with silver plate every Sunday,’ said he, ‘and pictures on the ... ...reat masses; the full moon battled the other way, and lit up the snow with gleams of flying silver; the town came down the hill in a cascade of brown ... ...wn. My lord has a new horn from England. He has laid out seven francs in decorating it with silver and gold, and fitting it with a silken leash to han... ... a great chorus of grateful voices have arisen to spread abroad its fame. Half the fa- mous writers of modern France have had their word to say about ... ...y father’s library was a spot of some austerity; the proceedings of learned societies, some Latin divinity, cyclopaedias, physical science, and, above...

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...ays exceeded my instructions, my Ac- quirements had been wonderfull for my age, and I had 6 Love and Friendship shortly surpassed my Masters. In my M... ...clinations or follow his Advice in the least trifling Particular since the age of fifteen?” “Edward (replied she) you are surely too diffident in your... ...6th to Servants, the 7th to Amusements, the 8th to Cloathes and the 9th to Silver Buckles. Having thus arranged our Expences for two months (for we e... ...ering about the streets of London, gay, dissipated, and Thoughtless at the age of 57, Matilda and I continue secluded from Mankind in our old and Moul... ...ted Queen, and while conducting to the scaffold, she wrote a sen- tence in Latin and another in Greek on seeing the dead Body of her Husband accidenta... ...ere deserving, ex- perienced, and able Ministers. But oh! how blinded such writers and such Readers must be to true Merit, to Merit despised, neglecte...

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...aties. At length parliament was convoked; the authority of the king was to be maintained. 8 Twenty Years After One day—it was the morning of the day ... .... All at once he raised his head; his brow slightly contracted like that of a man who has formed a resolution; he fixed his eyes upon an enormous cloc... ...as before; one might have fancied him an apparition. When he was left alone the cardinal looked at himself in the glass with a feeling of self-satisfa... ...t on others of silk only. At this instant the door opened. “Monsieur d’Artagnan,” said the valet-de-chambre. An officer, as he spoke, entered the apar... ...led me, by the merest chance. I am still a lieu- tenant in the musketeers and have been so these twenty years.” “Then no misfortune has happened to yo... ... I swear I was not guilty, I swear it by—” The queen looked around her for some sacred object by which she could swear, and taking out of a cupboard h... ...have accumulated noth- ing but debts.” Mazarin remained some moments in deep thought, as if he were fighting with himself; then, going to a large cup-... ...ch one of these two friends, for each of them almost immediately sat down by himself at an end of the tent and began to write. The letters were long—t...

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... was something heart-breaking in this gradual declension at so advanced an age; you would have thought a man of sixty out of the reach of these ca- la... ...he firth, and the field-paths where they had wandered hand in hand; or, as age and infirmity grew upon them and prolonged their toilettes, and their h... ...ignificance remains. You may perhaps look with a smile on the profusion of Latin mottoes – some crawling endwise up the shaft of a pillar, some issuin... ...id, when dying, There was a Treasure hid in his Yard, but neither Gold nor Silver. daniel Tweedie, his Son, came along with me to that Yard, and told ... ...e the beginning of history. The date is reassuring; for I think cau- tious writers are silent on the General’s exploits. But the stone is connected wi... ...and without exactly casting in one’s lot with that disenchanting school of writers, one cannot help hearing a good deal of the winter wind in the last... ...from high upon the hills, a shepherd saw lighted windows through the foli- age and heard the voice of city dignitaries raised in song. The farm is old... ...bles bright with scrubbing or pipe-clay, and the very kettle polished like silver. It is the sign of a contented old age in 51 Robert Louis Stevenson...

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...ked the old man. “You’ve no excuse for being bored anywhere. When I was your age I had never heard of such a thing.” “You must have developed very lat... ...ad been looking all round her again—at the lawn, the great trees, the reedy, silvery Thames, the beautiful old house; and while engaged in this survey... ... no means crudely jocular and with the happy consciousness that his advanced age gave him the privilege of saying such things—even to young persons wh... ...well, had kept her un acquainted with the supreme discipline of her sex and age. She had had everything a girl could have: kindness, admiration, bonb... ...ppetite. Miss Molyneux, who had a smooth, nun like forehead and wore a large silver cross suspended from her neck, was evidently preoccupied with Hen ... ...redi tary quiet in her. Isabel was sure moreover that her mild forehead and silver cross referred to some weird Anglican mystery—some delightful rein... ... down by return of post: she’s tremendously fond of distinguished people and writers. She writes herself, you know; but I haven’t read everything she ... ...a classical education—he had been bred at Eton, where they study nothing but Latin and Whyte Melville, said Miss Stackpole—he would be a most useful c...

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...mple community, tenderly alive to the pieties of household duty, and in an age still clinging rever- entially to the ceremonial ordinances of religion... ...he is now, the enthusiasm of some one or other of his admirers in the last age would have induced him to make some inquiries concerning the history of... ...as quoted, by saying,—“His admirers, however, if he had admir- ers in that age, possessed no portion of such enthusiasm.” It may, perhaps, be an instr... ...tic knowledge of literature, (a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator, Guardian, &c.,) would be likely to have learned a... ...have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth. This we say generally of the writers in those periodical papers; but, with reference to Addison in parti... ...to spare, if he could maintain a tolerable familiarity with the fore- most Latin poets, and a very slender one indeed with the Grecian. How slender, w... ...ducation from his eccentric grandfather. He was practised daily in talking Latin, to which afterwards he added a competent study of the Greek; and fin... ...est realized in more cases than one by the ancient fathers, both Greek and Latin, with regard to the profane classics. Intellectually they admired, an... ...as now the time when Phoebus yields to night, And rising Cynthia sheds her silver light, Wide o’er the world in solemn pomp she drew Her airy chariot ...

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...s only medical work bore the title ἐκπεηξηθὰ ὑπνκλήκαηα. The opinion of the writers above referred to is that the passa ge which we have quoted from... ...tus so often referred to by Galen. [3] As Galen died about 200 A.D. at the age of seventy, [4] we should fix the date of Sextus early in the third... ... Sex. Em. 30. [4] Zeller Grundriss der Ges. der Phil. p. 260. Sextus has a Latin name, but he was a Greek; we know this from his own statement. [1] ... ...out of the question. [1] Hyp. III. 120. [2] Hyp. II. 98. Of the different writers on Sextus Empiricus, those who have treated this part of the subj... ...ted to it by the Sceptics. [2] Stephanus and Fabricius translate it by the Latin word modus [3] and ηξόπνο a lso is often used interchangeably wit... ...ify sense-perception are health and illness, sleeping and waking, youth and age, hunger and satiety, drunkenness and sobriety. All of these conditio... ... nevertheless the greatest thinker the Sceptical School had known since the age of Pyrrho, its founder. In claiming a union between Pyrrhonism and t... ...together, however, in the form of a horn, they look black. And the parts of silver, the filings that is, by themselves appear black, but as a whole a... ... horn is, and what many cuttings put together are, of what kind a filing of silver is, and what many of them put together are, of what kind the tiny...

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...ured -- A country in which infants are attended by their fathers -- A gold and silver monument set over the body of a King -- Its dazzling beauty -- T... ...APTER XXXVI. Cavendish's voyages around the world. -- Glory of the Elizabethan Age -- The spirit of discovery animates England -- Heroism of Cavendish... ...e had its beginning. We are told that in a very early period of antiquity, the age of which cannot be set down, there existed on the shores of the Red... ...e years on its voyage, and returning each vessel brought a rich cargo of gold, silver, and precious wood. Many historians maintain that this fleet sai... ...posed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians discovered the West Indies pr... ...heir chief who, ordering them to retire, approached Zeno, and addressed him in Latin. This chief, whose name was Zichmni, proved to be a bold rover fr... ... for many interpreters from whom one was at length obtained who understood the Latin language, which it happened that one of the fishermen too could s... ...land was evident from the fact that in the king's library were to be seen many Latin books, these affording additional evidence of the claim that the ... ...rd eat them. In these parts they also have knowledge and use both of gold and silver." This description, we may observe in passing, so well suits the...

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...ess, their courage, or their patience, varying with the character of their age; but with that one essential distinc- tion in all, that the dross of se... ... the sparkle of water, but the shine of gilded helmets and the gleaming of silvered spears! Moreover, a Cimmerian crept over to the wall from the Pers... ...ory is that it happened thus: The Gauls had an unusually able leader, whom Latin historians call Brennus, but whose real name was most likely Bran, an... ...nd him, not knowing whether he were friend or foe. A joyful sound must his Latin speech have been to the long-tried, half starved garrison, who had no... ...as a remarkable instance of such devotion. The Romans were at war with the Latins, a nation dwelling to the south of them, and almost exactly resem- b... ...emulous of the honor his father had gained by his own com- bat at the same age with the Gaul, but forgot both the present edict and that his father ha... ...rs, plain, hardy, fierce, and pitiless, did, it must be feared, cruel dam- age among these peaceful scenes; they boasted of having sacked 300 villages... ...ns and the valleys so that it is said that their bright armor and gold and silver shields made the moun- tains glisten like lamps of fire. Still Judas... ... with them his head as a trophy, and with it, alas! ten thousand pounds of silver from the King, who, in his sluggishness and weakness had left Brythn...

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...as little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed by professional men... ...nworthy of notice, until long after the Christian era. Greece, even in the age of Pericles, produced no murder of the slightest merit; and Rome had to... ...us in any of the arts to succeed, where her model failed her. In fact, the Latin language sinks under the very idea of murder. “The man was murdered;”... ...r the very idea of murder. “The man was murdered;”— how will this sound in Latin? Interfectus est, interemptus est— which simply expresses a homicide;... ...nteremptus est— which simply expresses a homicide; and hence the Christian Latinity of the middle ages was obliged to introduce a new word, such as th... ...h of the art has flourished by fits. It never rains, but it pours. Our own age can boast of some fine specimens; and, about two centuries ago, there w... ... duties, as he had possessed himself of a ducatoon and a small quantity of silver, together with a silver-hafted knife, and had absconded with his pil... ...me circumstances. He had amassed a consider- 25 able quantity of gold and silver plate, which was for some time deposited in his bed-room at his pars... ...carlet!) whilst inspecting professionally the buckles, the straps, and the silver turrets of his harness, than I raised Miss Fanny’s hand to my lips, ...

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...into the presence of one in- vested with a cloud of mystery, whose nation, age, motives, were all alike unknown. Rarely on any field of battle has a s... ...l merit and its accidents of position is at all pecu- liar to us or to our age. Dr. Sacheverell, by embarking his small capital of talent on the sprin... ... in the style of Swift, he had it in common with multitudes beside of that age. De Foe wrote a style for all the world the same as to kind and degree ... ...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ...kill; because else, the gold may happen to be copper, and the pewter to be silver. Are you quite sure, my Addison, that you have understood the powers... ...ileau to Addison, and a pure compliment of cer- emony upon Addison’s early Latin verses, was (credite posteri!) the making of Addison in England. Unde... ...!) the making of Addison in England. Understand, Schlosser, that Addison’s Latin verses were never heard of by England, until long after his English p... ...ong after his English prose had fixed the public atten- tion upon him; his Latin reputation was a slight reaction from his English reputation: and, se... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di...

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...ash of my fire, and ‘Thursday October Christian,’ five and twenty years of age, son of the dead and gone Fletcher by a savage mother, leaps aboard His... ...t every college in Oxford 16 Reprinted Pieces and Cambridge; he can quote Latin in his letters (but gener ally misspells some minor English word); h... ...lly and unnecessarily cut off by the thousand, in the prematurity of their age, or in the rottenness of their youth—for of flower or blossom such yout... ...e star!’ They whispered one another, ‘He is dying.’ And he said, ‘I am. My age is falling from me like a gar ment, and I move towards the star as a c... ...: and sat, for weeks together, a eating nothing, out of half the gold and silver dishes as has ever been lent for the purpose out of Storrses, and Mo... ...ht upon the sails of ships and wake of steamboats, such dazzling gleams of silver far out at sea, such fresh touches on the crisp wave tops as they br... ...printed Pieces tween the rings like frayed out roots. The landsman was re lating his experience, as yet only three nights old, of a fearful running d... ...med with delicious wines from all parts of the world, the richest gold and silver plate that ever was seen adorned his side boards, his sons were str... ...s trained the boys. We recall one white mouse, who lived in the cover of a Latin dictionary, who ran up ladders, drew Roman chariots, shouldered muske...

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..................................................... 22 BOOK 1.II. THE PAPER AGE .......................................................................... ............................................... 208 Chapter 2.1.XI. As in the Age of Gold. ................................................................. ...all living; and vanish,—without chance of reappearance? In such a decadent age, or one fast verging that way, had our poor Louis been born. Grant also... ...rig- ands are coming! Not otherwise sounded the clang of Phoebus Apollos’s silver bow, scattering pestilence and pale terror; for this clang too was o... ...him, prepared him from afar. Did not his Grandfather, stout Col. d’Argent (Silver-Stock, so they named him), shattered and slashed by seven-and-twenty... ...ke to breathe, and miraculous surgery;—for Gabriel was yet to be. With his silver stock he kept his scarred head erect, through long years; and wedded... ...inals: Royal- ist Ministers, Delessarts, Montmorins; who have been accumu- lating on the High Court of Orleans, ever since that Tribunal was set up. W... ...s edifying to remark, on the other side, what a singular thing Customs (in Latin, Mores) are; and how fitly the Virtue, Vir-tus, Manhood or Worth, tha... ...en still, now when they have got coats, and speak nasally a kind of broken Latin! But on the whole does not time envelop this present National Convent...

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...heme, this impas- sioned common-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist,... ...misfortunes in a lower key, are not wholly undesirable, as means of stimu- lating the lazy energies, and disturbing a slumber which is, or soon will b... ...s, had it otherwise been possible with my particular mind, and at my early age, was utterly precluded by one remarkable peculiarity in my temper. Whet... ...able expectation and excitement, since our little Francis had become of an age to join our party, which made some aspects of her character trebly inte... ...Catalina spoke: she knew by heart, from the services of the convent, a few Latin phrases. Latin!—Oh, but that was charming; and in one so young! The g... .... The amusement was of the worst kind. It consisted chiefly in conjugating Latin verbs, especially such as were obstinately irregular. T o show him a ... ...shed to know the catastrophe], and took from his mantel- piece rather move silver than she had levied on her aunt. But the Don also was a relative; an... ...edrals, and of ca- thedral choirs, and of St. Sebastian’s chapel, with its silvery bells that carried the Angelus far into mountain recesses. Per- hap... ...dent. The slumber that tow- ered above her brain was like that fluctuating silvery column which stands in scientific tubes sinking, rising, deepening,...

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... the Boeotian school (2) were unani- mously assigned to Hesiod down to the age of Alexandrian criticism, they were clearly neither the work of one man... ...o the appropriate level. Take, for instance, the descrip- tion of the Iron Age (Works and Days, 182 ff.) with its cata- logue of wrongdoings and viole... ...ld, as known to the Greeks, down to the death of Odysseus, when the heroic age ended. In the Alexandrian Age these poems were arranged in chronologica... ...). — Frag. 7. 3) “Petrie Papyri” iii 3. — Frag. 14. 4) “Papiri greci e latine,” No. 130 (2nd-3rd cent.). — Frag. 14. 5) Strassburg Papyri, 55 (2... ... 58. 8) Berlin Papyri 9777 (4th cent.). — Frag. 98. 9) “Papiri greci e latine,” No. 131 (2nd-3rd cent.). — Frag. 99. 35 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns... ...ed; — then they who dwell on Olympus made a second generation which was of silver and less noble by far. It was like the golden race neither in body n... ... brazen race, sprung from ash-trees (4); and it was in no way equal to the silver age, but was terrible and strong. They loved the lamentable works of... ...ragment #2 — Proclus on Hesiod, Works and Days, 126: Some believe that the Silver Race (is to be attributed to) the earth, declaring that in the “Grea... ...er of Helius, Hyperion’s son, loved steadfast Odysseus and bare Agrius and Latinus who was faultless and strong: also she brought forth T elegonus by ...

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...orld. The fundamental and essential conditions of life are the same in any age, however the adventi- tious circumstances may change. The beginning and... ...old Mr. Johnson used to open a shop every market-day. He was a pretty good Latin scholar, and a citi- zen so creditable as to be made one of the mag- ... ...he universe; but, I fear, no copy of it can now be had.’ He began to learn Latin with Mr. Hawkins, usher, or under-master of Lichfield school, ‘a man ... ...knowing how to answer it. For instance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be asked. Now, S... ...k, one of the most ingenious men, best scholars, and best preachers of his age, was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson was at sch... ...r some time at the house of his uncle, Cornelius Ford, Johnson was, at the age of fifteen, removed to the school of Stourbridge, in Worcestershire, of... ...d walked to Billingsgate, where we took oars, and moved smoothly along the silver Thames. It was a very fine day. We were entertained with the immense... ...Thames’s banks in silent thought we stood: Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood: Pleas’d with the seat which gave Eliza birth, We kneel, and k... ...hich he deemed a place of innocent recreation. ‘He frequently gave all the silver in his pocket to the poor, who watched him, between his house and th...

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...from being mis taken for anybody else’s. Uncredited quotations from other writers often leave a reader in doubt as to their authorship, but McClintoc... ... modest questions about whatever was new to him—his reverence for wise old age, and his ardent desire to learn many of the fine arts, soon brought him... .... In 1842 he entered the class, and made rapid progress in the English and Latin departments. Indeed, he continued advancing with such rapidity that h... ...s and under all circumstances, by the frowns and cold looks of crabbed old age, which should continually reflect dignity upon those around, and treat ... ...uilt, we find him worth the trouble. By the above compari son between his age and Ambulinia’s, we guess the war worn veteran to be twenty two; and th... ...ake acceptable to his spectacular heart by introducing some new properties—silver bow, golden harp, olive branch—things that can all come good in an e... ...h glittering pearls, that indicated her coming. Elfonzo hails her with his silver bow and his golden harp. The meet— Ambulinia’s countenance brightens... ... or she may steal out along some gently rippling stream, and there, as the silver waters uninterruptedly move forward, shed her silent tears; they min... .... In 1842 he entered the class, and made rapid progress in the English and Latin departments. Indeed, he continued advancing with such rapidity that h...

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...omething very like that, the pas- sage begins (only I know my short-winded Latinity must have come to grief over even this much of quotation); and her... ...ree crows cawing in my heart, as I heard them this morning: I vote for old age and eighty years of retrospect. Yet, after all, I dare say, a short shr... ...the hotel a boy in whom I take the deepest interest. I cannot tell you his age, but the very first time I saw him (when I was at dinner yesterday) I w... ...le shifting colour of olive leaves; and, above all, the changes and little silverings that pass over them, like blushes over a face, when the wind tos... ...changel once. FRIDAY. – If you knew how old I felt! I am sure this is what age brings with it – this carelessness, this disenchant- ment, this continu... ...rtain Eton boy, translating for his sins a part of the Inland V oyage into Latin elegiacs; and from the hour I saw it, or rather a friend of mine, the... ...d by a running brook, we are to fish, hunt, sketch, study Spanish, French, Latin, Euclid, and History; and, if possible, not quarrel. Far from man, si... ...e noble work in that Agamemnon; it surprised me. We hope to get a house at Silverado, a deserted mining-camp eight miles up the mountain, now solely i... ...s. Chapter II. ‘What the Wreck had brought to Aros.’ Eh, boy? what had it? Silver and clocks and bro- cades, and what a conscience, what a mad brain! ...

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... the hidden history of information technologies that preceded the present Age of Cyberspace. My most surprising discovery was that the wedding of ... ...st seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lifting sea levels very gradually for several thousand years.... ...the religious, governmental, educational, and commercial centers of their age. As temple complexes grew into major economic enterprises, many work... ... exchange, paper money, moreover, frees precious metals, such as gold and silver, for productive purposes that yield higher income. (Professor Ha... ... was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. The warrior-king was Charlemagne—in Latin, Carlos Magnus (742–814). He was of the Carolingian dynasty that co... ...terate populations in different regions to communicate with each other in Latin. It became the standard in Europe. Today, we take for granted i... ...ch improvements, here‘s a sentence in a pre-Carolingian format, though in Latin and without the helpful ascenders (on b, d, etc.) and descenders (on... ...ety of goods included paper fans, porcelain bowls, robes embroidered with silver and golden thread, iron kettles, brass pots, and carved saddles. ... ...of the hot metal squeezed through spaces left between loose matrixes and ―silver bullets‖ squirted about ten feet in all directions. So many printer...

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...l fond of her; we all recog nize that she cannot help the infirmity which age has brought her; the rest of the family do not scold her for her remiss... ...akespearean play? O.M. The process is the same. The first actor was a sav age. He reproduced in his theatrical war dances, scalp dances, and so on, ... ...enty four days ago. Seventy four years old yesterday. Who can estimate my age today? I have looked upon her again. I wonder I can bear it. She looks ... ...urprise was there: in the form of a Christmas tree that was drenched with silver film in a most wonderful way; and on a table was prodigal profusion ... ...lp him in his office. I accepted. In Nevada, Circumstance furnished me the silver fever and I went into the mines to make a fortune, as I sup posed; ... ...eat widower haveing lost sev eral wives. Lady Jane Grey studied Greek and Latin and was beheaded after a few days. John Bright is noted for an incura... ...eat man. He was a very great soldier and wrote a book for beginners in the Latin. Cleopatra was caused by the death of an asp which she dissolved in a... ...detail every item of property he owned in the world— houses, lands, sword, silver gilt bowl, and so on—all the way down to his “second best bed” and i... ...that he ever went to school at all. The historians “infer” that he got his Latin in that school —the school which they “suppose” he attended. They “su...

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...of truth sendeth health. Be it known to your charity, that being dull in intellect and rude of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of t...

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...tellect and rude of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at a... ...f them contain it exactly the same. 6 History of the Britons 6. The first age of the world is from Adam to Noah; the second from Noah to Abraham; the... ...end of the paragraph, is omitted in several MSS. 8 History of the Britons Latinus, king of Italy, and of the race of Silvanus, the son of Inachus, th... ...ly; and Having vanquished T urnus, married Lavinia, the daugh- ter of king Latinus, who was the son of Faunus, the son of Picus, the son of Saturn. Af... ...nes of the people, and dictators. The Britons came to Britain in the third age of the world; and in the fourth, the Scots took possession of Ireland. ... ...on the pavement of the above- mentioned city he sowed three seeds of gold, silver and brass, that no poor person might ever be found in it. It is also... ...ing their neighbours; and, after having exhausted the country of its gold, silver, brass, honey, and costly vestments, and having besides received ric... ...lcho, to whom he was a swineherd for seven years. When he had attained the age of seventeen he gave him his liberty. By the divine impulse, he applied... ...walla); Nennius, Catgublaun; the Saxon Chronicle, Ceadwalla; and the Welsh writers, Cadwallon and Kalwallawn: and though the identity of the person ma...

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... amount of impression he has made on, and impulse he has given to, his own age and the world. In other words, what were his native powers, and what ha... ...lture, like his genius, was rather elegant than pro- found. He lived in an age when a knowledge of the classics, with a tincture of the metaphysics of... ...schools, was thought a good average stock of learning, although it was the age, too, of such mighty scholars as Bentley, Clarke, and Warlburton. Pope ... ...rks of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Blushing in bright diversities of day, With silver-quivering rills meander’d o’er— Enjoy them, you! Villario can no mor... ... 140 These shelves admit not any modern book. And now the chapel’s silver bell you hear, That summons you to all the pride of prayer: Light qu... ...in my strain, Of Tereus she, of Phaon I complain. A spring there is, whose silver waters show, Clear as a glass, the shining sands below: ... ... Read this, ere you translate one bit Of books of high renown. 2 Beware of Latin authors all! Nor think your verses sterling, Though with a golden pen... ...hose who have improved our language with the translations of old Greek and Latin authors.—We have already most of their histori- ans in our own tongue... ...e law to words, or war with words alone, Senates and courts with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the council to a grammar school! 180...

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...III WHITHER IN THE TIME OF THOMAS, THIRD VISCOUNT, I HAD PRECEDED HIM AS P AGE TO ISABELLA .............................................................. ...y mother ever wore powder in their hair; both their heads were as white as silver, as I can remem- ber them. My dear mother possessed to the last an e... ...n; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still looked young, and was quite agile. It was not until after tha... ...wears the mask and the cothurnus, and speaks to mea- sure. She too, in our age, busies herself with the affairs only of kings; waiting on them obsequi... ...boyhood, as page, waiting at her chair, bringing her scented water and the silver basin after dinner—sitting on her carriage- step on state occasions,... ...r the kind priest’s orders. At first they read much and regularly, both in Latin and French; the Father not neglecting in anything to impress his fait... ...ry Esmond ugly names, who made nothing of boxing his ears, and tilting the silver basin in his face which it was his business to present to her after ... ..., my son, you may testify, with a safe conscience, that you saw me burning Latin sermons the last time I was here before I went away to London; and it... ...rooper. “Hold thy prate, and read that bit of paper,” says Westbury. “’Tis Latin,” says Dick, glancing at it, and again saluting his of- ficer, “and f...

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...ser: the glittering panes behind which Birmingham had glazed its simulated silver, induced rustics to pause: although only noon, the savory odors of t... ...e dandies, all the wits, all the scholars, and all the voluptuaries of the age—an indefinite period of time between Queen Anne and George II.—dines wi... ... chapter; but it must be remembered that the au- thor wished to present an age at a glance: and the dialogue is quite as fine and correct as that in t... ... in Europe was little more—emptied the contents of the brandy-flask into a silver flagon, and quaffed it gayly to the health of the company assembled.... ... magnificent Arab past the National Gallery. “Who is yon spark in blue and silver? He beats Joe Addison himself, in drinking,, and pious Joe is the gr... ... Welcome to my Bosom, thou faithful Serpent; I hug thee, peace-bearing Im- age of the Eternal! Ha, the hemlock cup! Fill high, boy, for my soul is thi... ...taph she caused to be written by Father Drono (who piqued himself upon his Latinity) on the stone commemo- rating the death of her late lord:— Hic est... ...ni. And this is the translation which the doggerel knave Wamba made of the Latin lines: “Requiscat. “Under the stone you behold, Buried, and coffined,... ...ed, singing to the sound, or rather howl, of serpents and trom- bones, the Latin canticles of the Reverend Franciscus O’Mahony, lately canonized under...

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... more massive than usual. They are curtained within the recess, by a thick silver tissue adapted to the shape of the window, and hanging loosely in sm... ...gly rich crimson silk, fringed with a deep network of gold, and lined with silver tissue, which is the material of the exterior blind. There are no co... ...he other. The walls are prepared with 11 V olume Five a glossy paper of a silver gray tint, spotted with small Ara- besque devices of a fainter hue o... ...te- nance (that of a decrepid old man, some sixty-five or seventy years of age,)—a countenance which at once arrested and absorbed my whole attention,... ... ruin. The fact is that his precocity in vice was awful. At five months of age he used to get into such passions that he was unable to articulate. At ... ...s for one moment merely to observe that the exceed- ingly brief and simple Latin phrase which I have employed, is invariably mistranslated and misconc... ...of Bulwer and Dickens to those of Turnapenny and Ainsworth, the two little Latin words cui bono are rendered “to what purpose?” or, (as if quo bono,) ... ...mmortal- ize himself—ideas which, I should have added, his visitor’s great age, and well-known proficiency in the science of mor- als, might very well... ...of his school-for we may as well designate in this way the entire class of writers whose poems are bound up in the volume before us, and throughout al...

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...the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. OF THE FRENCH WRITERS OF ROMANCE of the latter part of the nineteenth century no one made... ...s: Stendhal, so alert, so mo- bile, after a youth passed in war and a ripe age spent in vagabond journeys, rich in experiences, immediate and personal... ...ugh paternal mentorship of Gustave Flaubert. Not until he had attained the age of thirty did he venture on publi- cation, challenging criticism for th... ... a dog, and so with our sense of taste, which can scarcely distinguish the age of a wine! Oh! If we only had other organs which could work other mirac... ...behind the rustic lovers, whose vague shadows are reflected on it in clear silver. It was well done, yes, indeed, well done. “I was working on the dec... ...ds. I fired, and one of them fell almost at my feet. It was a teal, with a silver breast, and then, in the blue space above me, I heard a voice, the v... ...sign of the cross, and then the priest slowly repeated the ‘Benedictus’ in Latin. Then we sat down, and the two fowls appeared, brought in by Marchas,... ... made the sign of the cross, and in a slow and solemn voice pronounced the Latin words which purify men’s souls. But before they were finished, the ol... ... that trouble?” “What do you mean? One cannot remain all one’s life in the Latin Quarter. The students make too much noise. But I do not move about an...

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...esides, who had taken his degree in life and knew a thing or two about the age we live in. We were deep in talk, whirling between Peterborough and Lon... ... degree, with every feature of the life and landscape. The warm, habitable age of towns and hamlets, the green, settled, ancient look of the country; ... ...tic architecture, the look of streets and buildings; the quaint, venerable age of many, and the thin walls and warm colouring of all. We have, in Scot... ...as a part that scarce became him; he somehow lacked the means: for all his silver hair and worn face, he was not truly old; and he had too much of the... ...ly from a school. It is only from a school that we can expect to have good writers; it is almost invariably from a school that great writers, these la... ...eith of the many and well-named mills – Bell’s Mills, and Canon Mills, and Silver Mills; nor Redford Burn of pleasant memories; nor yet, for all its s... ...its to the end. We children admired him: partly for his beautiful face and silver hair, for none more than children are concerned for beauty and, abov... ... read little, was constant to his favourite books. He had never any Greek; Latin he happily re-taught himself after he had left school, where he was a...