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الصفحة 97 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...
الصفحة 80 - ... cut off from their country by many navigable rivers, and many hundred miles. The message imported that they should deliver up their arms and submit themselves to the king's mercy. To which message before answer was made, divers of the army conferred familiarly with Falinus; and amongst the rest Xenophon happened to say, Why, Falinus, we have now but these two things left, our arms and our virtue ; and if we yield up our arms, how shall we make use of our virtue...
الصفحة 13 - ... Volume V. Tyler, WS : On the prepositions in the Homeric poems. Harkness, A. : On the formation of the tenses for completed action in the Latin finite verb. Haldeman, SS : On an English vowel-mutation, present in cag, keg. Packard, LR : On a passage in Homer's Odyssey (\ 81-86). Trumbull, J. Hammond : On numerals in American Indian languages, and the Indian mode of counting.
الصفحة 16 - This philanthropy (which we have not a proper word in English to express) is everywhere manifest in our author; and from hence proceeded that divine rule which...
الصفحة 21 - For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair — he utters a moral idea. When Shakespeare says, that : We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep, he utters- a moral idea.
الصفحة 80 - If I be not deceived, Young Gentleman, you are an Athenian, and I believe, you study Philosophy, and it is pretty that you say ; but you are much abused, if you think your virtue can withstand the King's power.
الصفحة 79 - Falinus came in message from the great king to the Grecians, after that Cyrus was slain in the field, and they a handful of men left to themselves in the midst of the king's territories, cut off from their country by many navigable rivers and many hundred miles. The message imported that they should deliver up their arms and submit themselves to the king's merey.
الصفحة 5 - Resolved, That a Committee of five be appointed by the Chair to nominate officers for the next year. The President appointed as such Committee, Chancellor Howard Crosby.
الصفحة 88 - TRUMBULL, at the session of 1875, and favorably reported upon by the committee of that session, the committee now present the following words as the beginning of such list, and...
الصفحة 15 - The committee think that a considerabl list of words may be made, in which the spelling may be changed, by dropping silent letters and otherwise, so as to make them better conform to the analogies of the language and draw them nearer to our sister languages and to a general alfabet, and yet...

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