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Abbott able Absol action Adjective Apodosis Ariovistus Bocchus Caesar camp Catiline Clause College Connectives construction Consul Corss curare Curt denote Deponent Verb Edited English equus EXERCISES IN LATIN Explain expressions facere Final Sentences friend of democracy Gaul Germ Gerund Give the Etymology Greek Hannibal hence Historical Tense horse Hostis HYPOTHETICAL SENTENCE IDIOMS Imperfect Indicative Mood instances Justitium Latin LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION loco locution magistratu Marcus mihi Misimus Misimus Misimus Morris's Hist never nihil nisi Note notion noun numbers one's oppidum Outlines Eng Peile Perfect Participle Perfect Tense Pluperfect plur prepositions Primary Tense Prof Prolative Infinitive Protasis quam Quamvis quin Quis quisque quod Quum Ready Romans root Sallust Sansk senate sent SHORT EXERCISES Subjunctive Mood suffix Syntax tero things Trepidus Trollope troops urbem ingressus Verb Verbal Verr Vespasian Volusenus word
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Page 28 - Except the Lord build the house : their labour is but lost that build it. Except the Lord keep the city : the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 13 - ... it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return.
Page 43 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Page 43 - Hast thou found honey ? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. 17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
Page 79 - Then they praised him, soft and low, Called him worthy to be loved, Truest friend and noblest foe ; Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place, Lightly to the warrior stept, Took the face-cloth from the face ; Yet she neither moved nor wept.
Page 42 - I am already represented to Harley as a discontented person, that was used ill for not being whig enough ; and I hope for good usage from him. The tories dryly tell me, I may make my fortune, if I please ; but I do not understand them, or rather, I do understand them.
Page 33 - Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
Page 90 - Had I but served my God, as I have served my king, He would not have forsaken me in my old age.
Page 88 - Each action of his life betrayed the terrors under which he laboured. The aspect of strangers was uneasy to him: with a piercing and anxious eye he surveyed every face to which he was not daily accustomed. He never moved a step without strong guards attending him : he wore armour under his clothes, and farther secured himself by offensive weapons, a sword, falchion, and pistols, which he always carried about him.
Page 74 - Hence two meanings of for, the former the more common. (§ 150) For, from meaning 'in front of,' came naturally to mean 'in behalf of,' 'for the sake of,' ' because of.' In the present instance, ' because of certain friends,
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| Title | Short exercises in Latin prose composition, Part 2 Short exercises in Latin prose composition, Robert Henry Belcher |
| Author | Robert Henry Belcher |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1879 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Aug 14, 2006 |
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