Progressive exercises for advanced students in Latin composition1844 |
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Ædui affairs alicui aliquem aliquid Ambiorix Appius apud Ariovistus army body Cæsar character Cicero citizens clauses common connexion consul cùm curare death defend desire dignity enemy English esset etsi EXERCISES Farewell father fear friendship Gaul Germans give glory gods greater hæc honour human illustrious kind King's College King's College School labour Latin LATIN COMPOSITION liberty lictor live Livy manner matter ment mihi mind MURETUS nation nature neque never nihil nisi Numa Pompilius old age opinion oratio particles passions person PIETRO BEMBO pleasure praise present prince principal proposition province quæ quàm quibus quid quidem quod quum reason relative pronouns respect Roman Rome Saguntum semper Senate sentences sibi soldiers soul spirit subj Subjunctive mood sunt Themistocles things thought tibi tion tribunes troops verb Vercingetorix victory virtue virtuous whole wish words write youth
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الصفحة 134 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
الصفحة 139 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise: it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
الصفحة 139 - I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors of mind, and that is, by securing to myself the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events and governs futurity. He sees, at one view, the whole thread...
الصفحة 148 - How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created...
الصفحة 141 - The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it: And can there be a thought so transporting, as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?
الصفحة 149 - But can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ? A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind.
الصفحة 140 - To advise the ignorant, relieve the needy, comfort the afflicted, are duties that fall in our way almost every day of our lives. A man has frequent opportunities of mitigating the fierceness of a party ; of doing justice to the character of a...
الصفحة 154 - Lacedemonians, that honest people, more virtuous than polite, rose up all to a man, and with the greatest respect received him among them. The Athenians being suddenly touched with a sense of the Spartan virtue, and their own degeneracy, gave a thunder of applause ; and. the old man cried out, " The Athenians understand what is good, but the Lacedemonians practise it
الصفحة 135 - ... of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man. Nay, it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his creation for ever beautifying in his eyes, and drawing nearer to him by greater degrees of resemblance.
الصفحة 132 - It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping it, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defence against reproach but obscurity...