Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose, by H.A. Holden

Hubert Ashton Holden

1864

Inhoudsopgave

• THE Iliad: 1
• Temple and sacred grove of Daphne: 13
• Imputation of ignorance resented by: 19
• Love of glory: 31
• 49: 33
• Studies their: 41
• Youth the time for imbibing virtuous principles: 47
• Fortune: 51
• A Cowley: 52
• 82: 53
• 93: 59
• Savage nationsferocity of their wars: 60
• Addison: 62
• The climate of Germany: 65
• Genuine patriotism: 66
• Hume: 68
• 116: 72
• S Johnson: 76
• 123: 77
• Epitaphs: 78
• Addison: 84
• The force of custom in regard to a future life: 86
• The original political state of the Roman Commons: 92
• Sir W Temple: 96
• A Pope: 97
• Sylla apparent inconsistency in his character: 98
• The course of nature: 101
• Impiety of Dionysius: 106
• W Robertson: 108
• 180: 111
• E Gibbon: 112
• 189: 117
• 191: 118
• F Atterbury: 122
• 200: 123
• Description of an earthquake: 124
• W Robertson: 125
• 2089: 129
• Sir H Wotton: 130
• 219: 135
• E Gibbon: 139
• 227: 141
• E Burke: 145
• Popularity not to be sought nor despised: 147
• The elementstheir uses: 148
• Addison: 152
• 249: 153
• Reasoning mans most appropriate occupation: 154
• Lord Clarendon: 159
• 254: 160
• Letter to Romilly on Fontenelle: 166
• N Machiavelli: 167
• 275: 172
• J Taylor: 174
• 12: 177
• 288: 178
• Lord Clarendon: 188
• 13: 193
• E Gibbon: 196
• Addison: 203
• S Johnson: 209
• E Gibbon: 212
• Middleton: 216
• W Paley: 222
• 15: 225
• R South: 230
• Lord Macaulay: 237
• A field of battle described: 238
• 16: 241
• 397: 244
• E Gibbon: 249
• Disadvantages of an exalted reputation: 250
• 419: 257
• R Southey: 259
• 427: 263
• H H Milman: 264
• Longs Plutarch: 268
• Proneness to look into futurity: 269
• Defeat of Fabius: 270
• J Ruskin: 273
• The retreat from Moscow: 275
• Misanthropy: 276
• Qualification of women for rule: 281
• 455: 282
• Evanescence of ideas: 288
• Character of the Long Parliament in 1641: 289
• Virgilhis Æneid and its defects: 291
• Lord Bacon: 294
• Hume: 295
• A Froude: 299
• The Norman Conquest: 300
• No man can be good to: 301
• Prudence cannot always command success: 303
• E Gibbon: 306
• Impatience in getting through life: 307
• Knowledge increases power: 309
• 505: 312
• The true poet: 313
• J Selden: 314
• Of Selfpraise: 315
• W Paley: 317
• Dialogue between Benedict and D Pedro W Shakespeare: 318
• Character: 319
• Letter: 320
• Character: 321
• Character of King Henry VIII Lord Herbert: 322
• Familiar instances the best Lord Bacon: 323
• G Burnet: 324
• Speech of William before the battle of Hastings D Hume: 325
• Every mans business is no mans: 326
• Letter to H Cromwell A Pope: 327
• Mental sufferings: 328
• Excessive anxiety for life 7 Addison: 329
• The siege of Gloucester raised A D 1643 Lord Clarendon: 330
• Innate goodness of nature 1 Barrow: 331
• Of Falsehood S Parr: 332
• 3334 The being of God proved 1 Barrow: 333
• Mentem e caelesti demissam traximus arce 1 Barrow: 335
• Our incapacity to discover all things in the world 1 Barrow: 336
• Elizabeth Queen of King Edward IV Lord Bacon: 337
• Lord Bacon: 338
• A Jewish tradition concerning Moses 7 Hughes: 339
• National troubles and personal happiness S Johnson: 340
• National characterits source and development D Hume: 341
• Reason and fancy S Johnson: 342
• The men of the eighteenth Century: 343
• Alaric accepts a ransom from the Romans E Gibbons: 344
• Qualities requisite for good government E Burke: 345
• W Robertson: 346
• A letter from Sir William Temple Sir W Temple: 347
• Spectator: 348
• Transformations of language S Johnson: 349
• Relation of the States of the Latin name to Rome T Arnold: 350
• Professions of latitudinarianism J J Blunt: 351
• Pompey the Greathis miserable death Conyers Middleton: 352
• Too high opinions of human nature O Goldsmith: 353
• Povertyhow regarded by poets and philosophers S Johnson: 354
• State of England after the battle of Bosworth: 355
• Majorianhis epistle to the senate E Gibbon: 356
• Virtue has not its full scope here 7 Butler: 357
• 3589 An ideal perfectly virtuous kingdom 7 Butler: 358
• Character of Sir Robert Walpole Lord Chesterfield: 360
• Inequalities of fortune W Paley: 361
• Knowledge of first principles how attained: 362
• Advantage of the uncertainty of death W Paley: 363
• The happiness of sentient beings W Paley: 364
• The Gentoostheir distribution into castes E Burke: 365
• Wellingtons attack at Salamanca A D 1812 W F P Napier: 366
• Adventure at the battle of Naseby A D 1645 Lord Clarendon: 367
• The Earl of Essex seizes Cirencester A D 1643 Lord Clarendon: 368
• Story of King Henry VII and an astrologer S Knight: 369
• British Government in India A D 1783 E Burke: 370
• Painful memory of departed folly C Babbage: 371
• Close of last speech against Warren Hastings E Burke: 372
• Character of King James the First: 373
• 374 Of Dissimulation Lord Bacon: 374
• W Mitford: 375
• Desire of perfectionnot always commendable: 376
• Letter: 377
• Successive growth and decay of plants: 378
• Mustapha heir to Solyman the Magnificent W Robertson: 379
• Character of Henry VIII king of England Ulpian Fulwell: 380
• Letter to his Mother on the loss of his Aunt T Gray: 381
• The evidences of Christianity J Davison: 382
• Proper employment of time 1 Barrow: 383
• Effects of a life of labour on the poor A Smith: 384
• Prevalent fashion of censuring public officers 1 Barrow: 385
• Lady Jane Grey accepts the crown D Hume: 386
• J Milton: 387
• Our capacity for happiness: 388
• Fitness to govern Lord Bacon: 391
• The law of Solon Plutarch: 392
• 118: 393
• W Robertson: 394
• Speech of a plebeian N Machiavelli: 395
• Greek Religion Max Müller: 396
• King 7 Selden: 397
• N Machiavelli: 400
• G Berkeley: 406
• Lord Bacon: 413
• S Johnson: 414
• T Erskine: 416
• O Goldsmith: 419
• Solon and Peisistratus: 425
• Lord Bacon: 428
• 192: 431
• Addison: 436
• Siege of Naples by Belisarius: 437
• Lord Bacon: 439
• 213: 443
• Whichcote: 449
• Lord Bacon: 458
• 248: 464
• W Robertson: 467
• T Arnold: 475
• Sir T Browne: 476
• Lord Clarendon: 479
• A Sidney: 482
• E Burke: 488
• O Goldsmith: 496
• R Hooker: 497
• R Porson: 499
• S T Coleridge: 501
• Lord Clarendon: 504
• Lord Macaulay: 512
• F Quarles: 513
• G Berkeley: 518
• A virtuous old age Sir R Steele: 523
• P Holland: 524
• Cromwell Lord Clarendon: 525
• The art of government J Milton: 526
• Heraclitus: 527
• Ignorance of lifes great business T Arnold: 528
• Lord Clarendon: 529
• Lord Bacon: 530
• The lower animals without fellowfeeling: 531
• Letter: 532
• 533 The Emperor Julian E Gibbon: 533
• Intercourse with the great men of old Lord Macaulay: 534
• Fortune B Jonson: 535
• E Gibbon: 536
• The disease of talking B Jonson: 537
• Beneficia B Jonson: 538
• Memory B Jonson: 539

Populaire passages

Pagina 439 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent that you may hear: believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Ca;sar was no less than his.

Pagina 40 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Pagina 67 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...

Pagina 360 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Pagina 86 - The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Pagina 103 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

Pagina 273 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Pagina 243 - Now therein of all sciences — I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit — is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it.

Pagina 439 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

Bibliografische gegevens

• Titel: Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose, by H.A. Holden
• Redacteur: Hubert Ashton Holden
• Editie: 3
• gepubliceerd: 1864
• Oorspronkelijk uit: Oxford University
• Gedigitaliseerd: 21 juni 2007