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Page xxv
... young men some excellence in public speaking was a matter of absolute necessity . Careful train- ing at home would be followed by what we might call a course of secondary education , embracing Grammar , Rhetoric and Literature . To this ...
... young men some excellence in public speaking was a matter of absolute necessity . Careful train- ing at home would be followed by what we might call a course of secondary education , embracing Grammar , Rhetoric and Literature . To this ...
Page xxvi
... young man would have to serve his time in the army — a period of 20 years in the infantry , or 10 years in the cavalry , seems to have been originally exacted — after which he was fully qualified to enter upon public life on his own ...
... young man would have to serve his time in the army — a period of 20 years in the infantry , or 10 years in the cavalry , seems to have been originally exacted — after which he was fully qualified to enter upon public life on his own ...
Page lxxi
... young practise unwillingly is that of avarice , since it has a spurious appearance of virtue . Hence fathers take double pains , both by precept and example , to instil the love of money into their sons ; they practise the meanest ...
... young practise unwillingly is that of avarice , since it has a spurious appearance of virtue . Hence fathers take double pains , both by precept and example , to instil the love of money into their sons ; they practise the meanest ...
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... young wife ; the woman who sleeps third in a big bed will want for nothing . So when you take a husband , keep your mouth shut ; precious stones 2 will be the reward of a well - kept secret . After this , what condemnation can be ...
... young wife ; the woman who sleeps third in a big bed will want for nothing . So when you take a husband , keep your mouth shut ; precious stones 2 will be the reward of a well - kept secret . After this , what condemnation can be ...
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... young manhood that fell at Cannae ; what would all those gallant hearts feel when a shade of this sort came down to them from here ? They would wish to be purified ; if only sulphur and torches and damp laurel - branches were to be had ...
... young manhood that fell at Cannae ; what would all those gallant hearts feel when a shade of this sort came down to them from here ? They would wish to be purified ; if only sulphur and torches and damp laurel - branches were to be had ...
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Page 198 - Augustum. iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli vendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, 80 panem et circenses. 'perituros audio multos.
Page 318 - ... quo didicisse, nisi hoc fermentum et quae semel intus innata est rupto iecore exierit caprificus?' 25 en pallor seniumque! o mores, usque adeone scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? 'at pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est." ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse pro nihilo pendes?
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Page 316 - O CURAS hominum, o quantum est in rebus inane ! " "quis leget haec ? " " min tu istud ais ? nemo hercule." " nemo ?
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Page 320 - Quisquis es, o modo quem ex adverso dicere feci, Non ego, quum scribo, si forte quid aptius exit, (Quando haec rara avis est) si quid tamen aptius exit', Laudari metuam ; neque enim mihi cornea fibra est. Sed recti finemque extremumque esse recuso EUGE tuum et BELLE. Nam BELLE hoc excute totum : Quid non intus habet?