Advanced Manual of Latin Prose Composition - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... anticipated, and of the long remembrance which it will leave behind. Renew the youth of the State. cSave property, divided against itself. Save the multitude, endangered by its own ungovernable passions. Save the aristocracy, endangered by its own unpopular power. Save the greatest, and fairest, and most highly civilised community that ever existed from calamities which may in a few days 7 sweep away all 8 the rich heritage of so many ages of wisdom and glory. The danger is terrible. The time is short. If this bill should be rejected, I pray to God that none of those who concur in rejecting it may ever remember their votes with unavailing remorse, amidst the wreck of laws, the confusion of ranks, the spoliation of property, and the dissolution of social order.--Macaulay. 1 'great events (casus, discrimen) warn us to preserve by reforming.' 2 ratio atque inclinatio temporum. 3 Literally, remembering that Latin has no equivalent for 'throne' in this sense; or 'is tumbling with mighty crash.' 4 nunc saltern, dumlicet. 5 'obey.' 6 Give the sentence a 'personal' turn: 126 b, 2. 7 'which may, as a flood, carry off.' 8 'whatever of wisdom and glory so many ages have bequeathed to us,' or 'whatever so many ages of wise and famous men have handed down to us.' DISSERTATION CLXXII Hitherto we have considered the influence of 1 scepticism on the principles of virtue; have endeavoured to show that it despoils it of its dignity, and 2 lays its authority in the dust. 3 Its influence on the formation of 4 character 5 remains to be examined. 6 The actions of men are oftener 7 determined by their character than their interest; their conduct s takes its colour more from their acquired taste, inclinations, and habits, than from a deliberate regard to their greatest good. It ...