Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations Taken from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages (Paperback)

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. 1860 Excerpt: ...is the rare character of an enlarged and philosophic mind. Nec temere nec timide. Lat.--" Neither rashly or fearfully." Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit, Occurrat. Lat. Claudian. "Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done."--This is a most admirable epitome of ethics. Nec timeo, nec sperno. Lat.--" I neither fear not despise." Nec cui de te plusqnam tibi credits. Lat.--" Do not believe any man more than yourself, when he speaks of you."--When a man flatters you, you should correct his assertions by your own consciousness. Nec quies gentium sine armis, nec arma sine stipendiis, nec stipendia sine tribntis. Lat. Tac--"The tranquillity of nations is not to be preserved without arms, troops can not be maintained without pay, and their pay can not be made good without taxes." Nec tamen, hoc tribuens, dederim quoque csetera Lat. Horace. "Nor do I, because I concede this point, give up all the rest." Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te. Lat.--" I can not live with you, nor yet without you." Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere, fidus lnterpres. Lat. Horace. "Nor should the translator aim at rendering the original, word for word."--In this servility of translation, the spirit of the original will certainly evaporate. Nec vixit mali qui natus moriensque fefellit. Lat. Horace.--" Nor has he spent his life badly, who has passed it from his birth to his burial in privacy." The man is fortunate, who escapes completely from the cares of public life. Ne exeat. Lat.--" Let him not go out."--A judicial writ prohibiting a person from leaving the state or country. Nefas nocere, velmalo fratri, puta. Lat. Seneca.--"You should esteem ...