A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... translation . In many of the references , the special edition or translation has been indicated . So far as practicable , passages are grouped according to the subject - matter , whether the subject - title occurs in them or not . The ...
... translation . In many of the references , the special edition or translation has been indicated . So far as practicable , passages are grouped according to the subject - matter , whether the subject - title occurs in them or not . The ...
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... ( Translated from the German . ) ADVANTAGE . Advantage is a better soldier than rashness . 56 ADVERSITY . Shakespeare : King Henry V. Act iii . Sc . 6 . Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but for one man who can stand prosperity ...
... ( Translated from the German . ) ADVANTAGE . Advantage is a better soldier than rashness . 56 ADVERSITY . Shakespeare : King Henry V. Act iii . Sc . 6 . Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but for one man who can stand prosperity ...
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... translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak . 1301 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims . Eloquence . Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative . Emerson : Society and Solitude ...
... translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak . 1301 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims . Eloquence . Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative . Emerson : Society and Solitude ...
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... translation . ) True eloquence , indeed , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and learning may toil for it , but they will toil in vain . Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way , but they cannot ...
... translation . ) True eloquence , indeed , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and learning may toil for it , but they will toil in vain . Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way , but they cannot ...
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... translation to the skies . 1496 Hazlitt : Table Talk . Second series . Pt . i . Essay iv . Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers . The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters . His ruling passion is the love of ...
... translation to the skies . 1496 Hazlitt : Table Talk . Second series . Pt . i . Essay iv . Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers . The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters . His ruling passion is the love of ...
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