Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science : Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in Schools, Volume 1Printed at the Press of H. Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, 1805 |
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... Livy , Virgil , - Horace , Ovid , Catullus , Tibullus , Phædrus . Points in which Latin are inferior to Greek writers . A degeneracy of style remarkable in Tacitus , Suetonius , Pliny , Lucan , Seneca . Many beauties of the classics are ...
... Livy , Virgil , - Horace , Ovid , Catullus , Tibullus , Phædrus . Points in which Latin are inferior to Greek writers . A degeneracy of style remarkable in Tacitus , Suetonius , Pliny , Lucan , Seneca . Many beauties of the classics are ...
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... passages in the history of Livy , the Orations of Cicero , and the Commentaries of Cæsar , In defence however of this custom it may be remarked , that as the action expressed by the verb is frequently THE LATIN LANGUAGE . 117.
... passages in the history of Livy , the Orations of Cicero , and the Commentaries of Cæsar , In defence however of this custom it may be remarked , that as the action expressed by the verb is frequently THE LATIN LANGUAGE . 117.
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... was suited to the genius of the Latin tongue . * His poems seem to possess every merit , except decency and morality , which they sometimes want . LIVY gave the most finished graces to historic com- position THE LATIN LANGUAGE . 123.
... was suited to the genius of the Latin tongue . * His poems seem to possess every merit , except decency and morality , which they sometimes want . LIVY gave the most finished graces to historic com- position THE LATIN LANGUAGE . 123.
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... LIVY gave the most finished graces to historic com- position ; and i is difficult to determine whether he most excels in the clearness of his descriptions , or the appropriate eloquence of his speeches . Learning has sustained an ...
... LIVY gave the most finished graces to historic com- position ; and i is difficult to determine whether he most excels in the clearness of his descriptions , or the appropriate eloquence of his speeches . Learning has sustained an ...
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... Livy ; and Thucydides to Sallust . As a copy must from its own nature be inferior to the original , which it imitates , they have all fallen short in point of origin- álity and fervour of composition . The poets are more particularly ...
... Livy ; and Thucydides to Sallust . As a copy must from its own nature be inferior to the original , which it imitates , they have all fallen short in point of origin- álity and fervour of composition . The poets are more particularly ...
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Page 38 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 23 - ... her the cities which he set in flames, the countries which he ravaged and destroyed, and the miserable distress of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Page 31 - Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester ;" which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety.
Page 379 - Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend head. Then sculpture and her sister-arts revive ; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Page 119 - Dryden saw very early that closeness best preserved an author's sense, and that freedom best exhibited his spirit ; he therefore will deserve the highest praise, who can give a representation at once faithful and pleasing, who can convey the same thoughts with the same graces, and who, when he translates changes nothing but the language.
Page 228 - I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.
Page 214 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.