et , neque or nec , -que , atque or ac , aut .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
, ut imbelles timidique videamur, sed fugiendum illud etiam, ne offeramus nos periculis sine causa, quo esse nihil potest stultius.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
This gentleman is this afternoon arrived from Denmark; and that is my Lord Ride, who came yesterday from Bagdad; here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain, and Captain Symmes, [432] from the interior of the earth; and Monsieur Jovaire, who came down this morning in a balloon; Mr. Hobnail, the reformer; and Reverend Jul Bat, who has [177] converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school; and Signer Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples; Spahr, the Persian ambassador; and Tul Wil Shan, the exiled nabob of Nepaul, whose saddle is the new moon.—But these are monsters of one day, and to-morrow will be dismissed to their holes and dens; for, in these rooms every chair is waited for.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nihil fuit in Catulis, ut eos exquisito iudicio putares uti litterarum, quamquam erant litterati; sed et alii; hi autem optime uti lingua Latina putabantur; sonus erat dulcis, litterae neque expressae neque oppressae, ne aut obscurum esset aut putidum, sine contentione vox nec languens nec canora.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
There's no denying that some surprisingly favourable results have been attained for the accused in this way, for a limited time, and these petty advocates then strut to and fro on the basis of them and attract new clients, but for the further course of the proceedings it signifies either nothing or nothing good.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka
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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
In arranging them on one shield, the order in which they devolve (according to the pedigree and not necessarily according to the date order in which they are inherited) must be rigidly adhered to; but a person is perfectly at liberty (1) to repeat the first quartering at the end to make an even number or not at his pleasure, but no more than the first quartering must be repeated in such cases; (2) to arrange the quarters in any number of rows he may find most convenient according to the shape of the space the quarterings will occupy.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
It neither includes the possession of high moral excellence, nor of necessity even the ornamental graces of manner.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are at present in store some sixty thousand of these felloes and [Pg 259] an equal number of naves, with their due complement of spokes.
— from Curiosities of Civilization by Andrew Wynter
This miniature, out of the entire number of not less than 206, is the only one which exhibits a marked Flemish influence and reminds us of the fact that the Limbourgs were nephews and pupils of Malouel, Court-Painter to the Duke of Burgundy.
— from Chantilly in History and Art by Luise Richter
In the succeeding wholly Porphyrian period, 588 we have the same equal number of Numenian 589 and non-Numenian 590 books.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus
To say there was no law, properly speaking, seems to me wholly irreconcilable with actual facts, and especially with the existence of a rich and elaborate nomenclature of native terms not borrowed from Roman law .
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell
Athenæus, who has left us an account of many of the antient dances, as the Mactrismus , a dance entirely for the female sex, the Molossic , the Persian Sicinnis , &c. observes, that in the earliest ages of antiquity, dancing was esteemed an exercise, not only not inconsistent with decency and gravity, 23 png 018 but practised by persons of the greatest worth and honor.
— from A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
Up they clambered, up the ladders already planted against the inner palisade, up and over, hundreds of eager men pouring into the enclosure, no obstacle now between them and their enemy.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang
Finally he was transferred to that fearfully barren stretch among the heathen Eskimos north of Nachvak.
— from The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace
FOURTH PROPOSITION.--There has been since emancipation, not only no rebellion in fact , but NO FEAR OF IT in Antigua.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
They have ever been boastful and loud-tongued, but have done nothing; there are no great social efforts, no organizations, no practical projects, whether successful or futile, to which they can point.
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers
These requirements included dancing, playing at blind-man’s-buff, and other games, so that, being thus employed, no one need either listen or reply to them.
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 2 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat
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