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...I write in French, which is the lan guage of my country, in preference to Latin, which is that of my preceptors, it is because I expect that those w... ...alone I desire for judges, they will not, I feel assured, be so partial to Latin as to refuse to listen to my reasonings merely because I expound them...

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... is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at...

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...e in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighb... ...was “one of the oldest and most highly recommended boarding- houses in the Latin Quarter.” “From the windows of the house,” thus ran the prospectus, “... ...y. Do you remember, Claire? The King began to laugh, and made some joke in Latin about flour. People—what was it?—people—” “Ejusdem farinae,” said Eug... ...w. The aunt brings up the two sisters; the cure comes and teaches the boys Latin. Boiled chestnuts are oftener on the table than white bread. Papa mak... ...it. Sorbonne and chump are two forcible expressions borrowed from thieves’ Latin, thieves, of all people, being compelled to consider the human head i... ...your father-in-law, is lying at the point of death in a squalid den in the Latin Quarter. He has not a penny to pay for fire- wood; he is expected to ...

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... modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] juxtaposed. Otherwise, the punctuation and spelling of the print version have been retained....

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... into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] juxtaposed. Otherwise, the punctua... ...erywhere; this word, which connects itself, accord- ing to Grimm, with the Latin vadere, with the English wade and such like,—means primarily Movement... ...on was the best then going; much school-divinity, Aristotelean logic, some Latin classics,—no inconsiderable insight into certain provinces of things:... ...“as the sails sink, the mast being suddenly broken.” Or that poor Brunetto Latini, with the cotto aspetto, “face baked,” parched brown and lean; and t... ...omless Despair. It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had ne... ...simply could not help coming. T o all Popes and Popes’ advocates, expostu- lating, lamenting and accusing, the answer of the world is: Once for all, y...

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...of truth sendeth health. Be it known to your charity, that being dull in intellect and rude of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of t...

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...tellect and rude of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at a... ...end of the paragraph, is omitted in several MSS. 8 History of the Britons Latinus, king of Italy, and of the race of Silvanus, the son of Inachus, th... ...ly; and Having vanquished T urnus, married Lavinia, the daugh- ter of king Latinus, who was the son of Faunus, the son of Picus, the son of Saturn. Af... ...the son of Faunus, the son of Picus, the son of Saturn. After the death of Latinus, Aeneas obtained the kingdom Of the Romans, and Lavinia brought for... ...ab- ited from that time to the present period. 11. Aeneas reigned over the Latins three years; Ascanius thirty three years; after whom Silvius reigned... ...was taken by a foreign people. But Posthumus his brother reigned among the Latins. 12. After an interval of not less than eight hundred years, came th... ...lus, Saxo, and Boganus. From Hisicion arose four na- tions—the Franks, the Latins, the Germans, and Britons: from Armenon, the Gothi, Balagothi, Cibid... ...h are still preserved in great veneration at Wedale, in English Wodale, in Latin V allis-doloris. Wodale is a village in the province of Lodonesia, bu...

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...mosthenes and Cicero; we know it from their continual habit of quoting the Latin grammar in Parliament. But it is agreed that the classics are respect... ...d Cairo We had some Poles of our party; but these poor fellows went to the Latin convent, declining to worship after the Emperor’s fashion. The next ... ...e. There we saw them, more than once on subsequent visits, kneeling in the Latin Church before the pictures, or marching solemnly with candles in proc... ...iour’s sufferings. More honest or more civilised, or from opposition, the Latin fathers have long given up and dis- owned the disgusting mummery of t... ...lieve not to take money; but the traveller is expected to pay in each. The Latin fathers enlarge their means by a little harmless trade in beads and c... ... Bethlehemites, who must in- terfere considerably with the commerce of the Latin fathers. These men bawl to you from their stalls, and hold up for you... ...motions but those of shame and pain. The legends with which the Greeks and Latins have gar- nished the spot have no more sacredness for you than the h... ...hich Abraham caught the Ram, which was to serve as the vicar of Isaac; the Latins point out the Pillar to which the Lord was bound. The place of the I... ...lamps, barbarous pictures, and 115 Thackeray cheap faded trumpery. In the Latin Church there was no ser- vice going on, only two fathers dusting the ...

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...ory is that it happened thus: The Gauls had an unusually able leader, whom Latin historians call Brennus, but whose real name was most likely Bran, an... ...nd him, not knowing whether he were friend or foe. A joyful sound must his Latin speech have been to the long-tried, half starved garrison, who had no... ...as a remarkable instance of such devotion. The Romans were at war with the Latins, a nation dwelling to the south of them, and almost exactly resem- b... ... fighting. Indeed the city of Rome itself was but an offshoot from the old Latin kingdom; and there was not much difference between the two nations ev... ...to fight in single combat with the enemy; a necessary regula- tion, as the Latins were so like, in every respect, to the Ro- mans, that there would ha... ...mand had been given out, young Titus Manlius, the son of the consul, met a Latin leader, who called him by name and challenged him to fight hand to ha... ... head fall, then watched the corpse covered with the trophies won from the Latins, and made no hindrance to the glorious obsequies with which the whol... ...lf to complete the advantage gained by Decius’ death. Only one wing of the Latins had fled, the other fought long and bravely, and when at last it was... ...nqueror and conquered declared that, if Manlius had been the leader of the Latins, they would have had the victory. Manlius afterwards com- pletely su...

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...mathion, Diomede having sent him from Troy; and others, Romus, king of the Latins, after driving out the Tyrrhenians, who had come from Thessaly into ... ...ome say, Roma, daughter of the Trojan lady above mentioned, was married to Latinus, Telemachus’s son, and became mother to Romulus; others, that Aemil... ...hem; these creatures are esteemed holy to the god Mars, the woodpecker the Latins still especially wor- ship and honor. Which things, as much as any, ... ...came from the children’s nurse, through the ambiguity of her name; for the Latins not only called wolves lupae, but also women of loose life; and such... ...ng, they went over in ferry-boats somewhere hereabouts to the fo- rum, the Latin word for ferrying being velatura. Others de- rive the name from velum... ... cap- tain carrying a small bundle of grass and shrubs tied to a pole. The Latins call such bundles manipuli and from hence it is that in their armies... ...rophy was styled an offer- ing to Jupiter Feretrius, from ferire, which in Latin is to smite; for Romulus prayed he might smite and overthrow his en- ... ... of him; many foreign nations, too, showed respect to Romulus; the Ancient Latins sent, and entered into league and confederacy with him. Fidenae he t... ...ngs tied on their bodies, to bind on the moment whomever he commanded. The Latins formerly used ligare in the same sense as now alligare, to bind, whe...

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...this, used each to make a language for himself, besides the strange Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanish jargo... ...t altered to my own style, because I have been compelled to turn them from Latin into French. I commence:—At Poissy the nuns were accustomed to, when ... ...Sons and Her Lord Spouse Inconsolable. This epitaph was written in elegant Latin, but for the con- venience of all it was necessary to translate it, a... ...plete, the old cardinal of the rats lifted up his voice, and in a good rat-latin oration pointed out to the guardian of the grain that no one but God ... ...l languages since the Deluge, of the Hebrew, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Latins, and of T urnus, the ancient founder of T ours; and the good man fin... ...ttering as en- tertainment many foreign dialects, such as the Greek or the Latin empire, Moorish, and, above all, French better than any of those who ... ...reek she knew nothing but a Kyrie eleison, of which she made great use; of Latin, nothing, save Amen, which she said to God, wishing therewith to obta...

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...portant assis- tance which he has rendered to me in verifying and retrans- lating the quotations, which were in a most corrupt state, and of which Cot... ...used to awake him by the sound of some agreeable music, and how he learned Latin, without suffering the rod or shed- ding a tear, before beginning Fre... ...ay, the last of February 1571, he caused a philo- sophical inscription, in Latin, to be placed upon one of the walls of his chateau, where it is still... ...sixteenth century towards controversy, learning, and knowledge. She learnt Latin without a master; and when, the age of eighteen, she accidentally bec... ... sir, I have been desirous to bring to light, and present to you, such few Latin verses as he left behind. Different from the builder, who places the ... ...urselves believe to be true; and that the definition of the word to lie in Latin, from which our French is taken, is to tell a thing which we know in ... ...mine, who first opposed Charlemagne, when he attempted to im- pose upon us Latin and imperial laws. What can be more savage, than to see a nation wher... ...ds!” Men are apt presently to inquire, does such a one understand Greek or Latin? Is he a poet? or does he write in prose? But whether he be grown bet... ...- ing so unfit for employment; all you shall find he has got, is, that his Latin and Greek have only made him a greater cox- comb than when he went fr...

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... his tenth birthday. It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honou... ...ired a gun and hoisted Roman colours. Boldheart then perceived her to be the Latin gram mar master’s bark. Such indeed she was, and had been tack in... ...feel convinced that their reputation required it, and giving orders that the Latin grammar master should be taken alive. He then dismissed them to the... ...veered around, and poured in another. ‘The Scorpion’ (so was the bark of the Latin grammar master appropriately called) was not slow to return her fir... ...ding ensued, in which the guns of ‘The Beauty’ did tremendous execution. The Latin grammar master was seen upon the poop, in the midst of the smoke an... ...in the hammock nettings, — or somewhere in about that direction, — until the Latin grammar master, having all his masts gone, his hull and rigging sh... ...the cook, who, having lost his brother in the late action, was making at the Latin grammar master in an infuriated state, intent on his destruction wi... ...on his destruction with a carving knife. Capt. Boldheart then turned to the Latin grammar mas ter, severely reproaching him with his perfidy, and pu... ...tle of rum, a small cask of water, a piece of pork, a bag of biscuit, and my Latin grammar. Go! and spite the natives, if you can find any.’ Deeply co...

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...also know that in Rom. 3, the word “solum” is not present in either Greek or Latin text the papists did not have to teach me that it is fact! The ... ...wanted to speak German since it was German I had spoken in translation not Latin or Greek. But it is the nature of our language that in speaking abo... ...ses. In all these phrases, this is a German usage, even though it is not the Latin or Greek usage. It is the na ture of the German tongue to add “all... ...ear and complete German expression. W e do not have to ask about the literal Latin or how we are to speak German as these asses do. Rather we must a... ... have tried for, although unfortunately not always successfully. The literal Latin is a great barrier to speaking proper Ger man. So, as the traitor ... ...you.” well up to this point, this has simply been translated from the simple Latin, but tell me is that good Ger man? Since when does a German speak ... ... dear man, the dear child. I do not know if one can say this word “liebe” in Latin or in other languages with so much depth of emotion that it pierces...

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...qualities are not to be rooted out; they may be covered and concealed. The Latin tongue is as it were natural to me; I understand it better than Frenc... ...swoon, I have always uttered from the bottom of my heart my first words in Latin; nature deafened, and forcibly expressing itself, in spite of so long... ...an ordinary, because his conception is so. Plutarch says’ that he sees the Latin tongue by the things: ’tis here the same: the sense illuminates and p... ...tyle, you will often perceive it to flag and languish under you, and there Latin steps in to its relief, as Greek does to others. Of some of these wor... ...dy to assist or relieve me; where I hardly see a man who under- stands the Latin of his Paternoster, and of French a little less. I might have made it... ..., imitative quality: when I used to write verses (and I never made any but Latin), they evidently discovered the poet I had last read, and some of my ... ...on, and fury in his disputations? Strip him of his gown, his hood, and his Latin, let him not batter our ears with Aristotle, pure and simple, you wil... ...wife sees herself armed by the hands of her own husband. Did he understand Latin, we should say to him: “Age, si hic non insanit satis sua sponte... ... as diversity and vari- 320 Essays: Book III ety. Both the Greeks and the Latins and we, for the most express example of similitude, employ that of e...

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...” And, as if in defiance of his companion’s scruples, he concluded a short Latin grace with a long draught from the leathern bottle. “That, too, you c... ... fervour, had described the miseries imposed by the unbe- lievers upon the Latin Christians in the Holy Land, in colours scarce inferior to those empl... ...e amid the scenes of desolation where they now found him, respected by the Latins for his austere devotion, and by the Turks and Arabs on account of t... ... removed the scruples of Thomas de Vaux, who was particularly moved by the Latin quota- tion, as he did not understand a word of it. But the bishop pr... ...a desire to extend his own principality, without regard to the weal of the Latin kingdom of Pales- tine, and of seeking his own interest, by private n... ... purpose of the Christian nobles of Palestine, the wretched remnant of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem. Left to ourselves, we might have bent to the st... ... of feudal law, composed by Godfrey of Boulogne, for the government of the Latin kingdom of Pal- estine, when reconquered from the Saracens. “It was c...

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...so shy?) I saw him lay his hand upon her torn black hair; (“Little dirty Latin child, let the lady by!”) The women squatting on the stoops were slov... ... holy talk of Vesper and of Matin, He heard me my Greek and he heard me my Latin, He blessed me and crossed me to keep my soul from evil, And we watch...

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...call it—to instruct her so far, that she obtained a competent skill in the Latin language, and was, perhaps, as good a scholar as most of the young me... ...dition from mother to daughter ever since. If I was to translate this into Latin, I should render it by these two words, Nolo Episcopari: a phrase lik... ...through that bright and busy age so nobly distinguished by the excel lent Latin poet— Ad confligendum venientibus undique poenis, Omnia c... ... certain school master, who had, at her earnest desire, instructed her in Latin, in which, to do justice to her genius, she had so improved herself, ... ...quid potum: upon which the poor girl smiled, perhaps at the badness of the Latin, and, when her mistress cast her eyes on her, blushed, possibly with ... ... to his usual receipt of patience; for, though he was not a great adept in Latin, he remembered, and well under stood, the advice contained in these ... ...he lived with her. The leaning over the chair, the sudden starting up, the Latin, the smile, and many other things, rushed upon her all at once. The s... ...me so now; and, indeed, the wit of them all may be comprised in that short Latin proverb, “ Noscitur a socio ”; which, I think, is thus expressed in E... ...ingenuous modesty’; for this was a virtue in great re pute both among the Latins and Greeks. I must say, the young gentleman (for so I think I may ca...

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..., or the artificial combina- tions of syntax. ‘I can read and understand a Latin author,’ said young Edward, with the self-confidence and rash reason-... ...terpress—Ah! I’ll tell you, though, doctor, you must knock out some of the Latin and Greek; heavy, doctor, damn’d heavy—(beg your pardon) and if you t... ...e Baron of Bradwardine sang French chansons-a-boire, and spouted pieces of Latin; Killancureit talked, in a steady unal- terable dull key, of top-dres... ...pellation,—a sort of bearing which the French call armoires parlantes; the Latins arma cantantia; and your En- glish authorities, canting heraldry; be... ... prevailed on to join him. There is a monument erected on the spot, with a Latin inscription by the late Dr. Gregory.] O high-minded Moray!—the exiled... ...ke honourable and pecu- liar, being blanch (which Craig opines ought to be Latinated 297 Sir Walter Scott blancum, or rather francum, a free holding)... ...only I hope that intolerable papa, with his brogue, and his snuff, and his Latin, and his insufferable long stories about the Duke of Berwick, will fi... ...THE BARON’S STORY was short, when divested of the adages and commonplaces, Latin, English, and Scotch, with which his erudition garnished it. He insis... ... perusal of his old friend Titus Livius, varied by occasionally scratching Latin proverbs and texts of Scripture with his knife on the roof and walls ...

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...ch he distributed among such of his own men as he most confided in, stimu- lating the courage of his new soldiers by gifts and honors, and inuring the... ...ian boat drew near, and Septimius standing up first, saluted Pompey in the Latin tongue, by the title of imperator. Then Achillas, saluting him in the... ...emned, had I dismissed my army.” These words, Pollio says, Caesar spoke in Latin at that time, and that he himself wrote them in Greek; adding, that t... ... rapidity of it, he used three words, I came, saw, and conquered, which in Latin having all the same cadence, carry with them a very suitable air of b... ...And both of them at the same time cried out, he that received the blow, in Latin, “Vile Casca, what does this mean?” and he that gave it, in Greek, to... ...ved the name of the Wise or the Prudent, both which meanings belong to the Latin word Sapiens. But Tiberius, being elected tribune of the people, ente... ...e went abroad, took with him a sword-staff, such as robbers use, called in Latin a dolo. When the day appointed was come, and the people sum- moned to... ...t little acknowledgment. They were displeased with Caius, for offering the Latins an equal right with the Romans of voting at the election of magistra... ...vius proposed that it might not be lawful for a Roman captain to scourge a Latin soldier, they promoted the pass- ing of that law. And Livius, in all ...

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...lan guages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose... ... family took up, and afterwards the whole kingdom. The word imports what the Latins call nanunculus, the Italians homunceletino, and the English mann...

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...ll develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may achieve a method of unity, and then deal on equal terms w... ...th a concen- tration and intensity unprecedented before the war, is specu- lating how it can contrive to get a different sort of ruler and administrat... ...t educational process has consisted. Its backbone has been the teaching of Latin by men who can read, write, and speak it rather worse than a third-ra... ...e man of an English university but a “failed” 83 H G Wells Greek scholar? Latin, too, must be either reduced to the po- sition of a study supplementa... ...y in favour of her recuperation. The possibility of Italy and that strange Latin outlier, Roumania, joining hands through an allied and friendly Serbi... ...ere may be other stars in that constellation, Italy, Japan, a confederated Latin America, for example; I do not propose to deal with that possibility ... ...f Russian letter- ing—I speak from the point of view of those who read the Latin alphabet. How confusing it may be only those who have tried it can te... ...words in the strange lettering. He did not attempt to write his Russian in Latin letters. He was apparently igno- rant of any system of transliteratio... ...ion, carefully tran- scribe every word of Russian in my text-book into the Latin characters, and learn the elements of the language from my manuscript...

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...uld gradually abate. Now in mineralogy there are many half-Greek and half- Latin terms, very hard to articulate, and which would be most trying to a p... ...numbers like the Greek, and irregular declensions of nouns proper like the Latin.” “Ah!” said I, a little moved out of my indifference; “and is the ty... ...s currently adopted by the choice spirits of the sixteenth century; I mean Latin. If I am mistaken, I can but try Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, or ... ..., or Hebrew. But the savants of the sixteenth century gener- ally wrote in Latin. I am therefore entitled to pronounce this, a priori, to be Latin. It... ...n. I am therefore entitled to pronounce this, a priori, to be Latin. It is Latin.” 16 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth I jumped up in my chair.... ...n.” 16 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth I jumped up in my chair. My Latin memories rose in re- volt against the notion that these barbarous wor... ...arbarous words could be- long to the sweet language of Virgil. “Yes, it is Latin,” my uncle went on; “but it is Latin con- fused and in disorder; “per... ...essor with great pomp 19 Jules Verne to unfold the magnificent but hidden Latin of this mysteri- ous phrase. But who could have foretold the result? ... ... the moment when the back was turned to me I thought I caught sight of the Latin words “craterem,” “terrestre,” and others. A sudden light burst in up...