Handbook of Latin writing

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EXERCIS . Mgo on to inter that any doctrino hic ma even Mem toload to suo a result mustio in itfel chimerical NoW tobo equallyriamiliar Wit ali history and language is, of murae, ulteri bebon human o er. ut it is non thocleas truo that in student os histor oris language, an he horis a student os cither, must be in no mali degre a student of tho ther, must talio in ali histor an ali language Within his ange Tho degrees of his no ledge of various langvages, o Varinus branches of history, ill var infinitely. os som branchesis must no everything, ut of very branchae mustanomaomething. 74. The immenso relative importano otisomo of theseancient militar ovent of mali dimension is due to thesac that militat strengi Wan no the concentrate in themostis hi civilige communities ascit is in modern times. In antiquid there Was a real clange that in nascent civiligatio of higher typo might be extinguished by the longostablished civiligationis far lo e type or even is barba ism, uiuouo mero disparit os numbers. o do notano. homosten in pre-histori times some litus gleam o civilla tio ma have been ut ut by an verWhelming ave os barbarism though, by reasou of the great militar superio tu hic evenis lituo civiligatio giVes, such Occurrenoes are lihely, o the hole, to have been exceptiones. his great superiorit is et exemplisse in tho as With hic tho Greeks closeate ton times their W number os Asiatica at

not o questione that the invasions os .c. 490 and 80Wore fraught Wit serious dange to Grecia independenoe, an is Datis an Mardonius hin appene to posses themilitan talent os Cyrus oris Timour, the danger mould havebeon alaminiindoed. No i litti Greoco had thus sons allowed umby giant Persia, and the nascent politica and intellectual reedom extinguiahe in Athena acit a in ho

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ment on auourne With a great company, and that they cameto a mysterious placo at hicli inero ere Wo chasma in the arth; tho mere Oar together, and ver against them ereri omine chasma in in heaven a ve. In the intermediate pace there ere judges eated Who ad the just,

astor the had Judge them, ascend by the eavent Way onthe right hand having the signa of the judgmen Mund on

mando by thom to oscend by the loWor Way on the lonhand thes also had the symbola of their deod fastono on

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olea an bright. An alWaysin thei arriva the Memedas is the had come Domin long journey, and the Went ut into in meado 'it Joy, and encampe a at a festivat. An thos Whoane in another embrace and conVersed. 78. The modor an ancient philosophical, id are notagreed in thei conceptions os truth an salse od the oneidentinos truth almos exclusivel Wit faci, the ther Withideias There is a like differetice Miseen Maelves and Plato, hic is hoWever, parti a dissereno os Worda. Fornorio Ahould admit that a chil must leam many lessona Whichae imperfecti understanda. o musti taught somethinga in alguro oni3 an some perhaps Whichio cantarillybe Oxpecte in belleve hen horamWs older; ut, inould limit tho se fraction to the necessit of the ase Plato Would dra. tho line some hat differently Accordincto him, the aim os early education is no truth M a matter of taot, but truth as a mauerit principio Tho chil is toto taughtnrs simple religious truths, and then simple mora trutha, an insensibi to learn the lesso of good manners and good inste. e Proposea an ulla reformatio of the old Pthology. The lusis an troacheries of the god ars to ebanished tho terror of the orto belomare to e dispelled, the misbehavioris the Homerio heroos is uot to eo modet for ovili. ut there is nother strata ear in Homer, Whic may teach ur ovili endurance, an something maybe earne in medicine rom in simple practice of the

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EXERCISES. 87 Homerio age. The principis on Which religion is tome basinare' omnly. Firat, that God is mea secondiy that ho la

chance Orning or evening at o Ionia festiva o among the Sabino hilis have laated generation after generatio forthousanda os years, With a m erive the min and a charmWhio the current literature of his owniv With ad ira obvious aclvantages ta ulteri unable o rival Perhaps thia is hore o of the mediaevia opinionis ut Virgil, asci a prophetor magician, his single morda an phrasos, his pathotio talDlines giving ulterano a the voice of natur herael to that pian and wearinosa, Felisopo os bellor hings hic is hoexperieno of her children in every time. 80. In a very different sub oc,matter, Napoleon suppliesu Wit an instanc os a parallel genius in reaaoning byWhio he was en ledriodook at thinga in his οὐ province, an to interpret them truly, apparenti Without an ratiocinitive media. B long experience,' sva Altison, joinedio great natural quickneas an precision of ye, he had acquired tholo er os juving With extraordinary accura , both of the amount of the enemy' foro opposo in him in theneid, and the probabie result of the movementa, even themost complicatod minisor aes in the opposite armies. . . .

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88 EXERCISES. Hora hod amund hi sor a lituo hilo it his telescope, and instantly formed a clear conceptio of the position, fomes, an intentio of the whole hostile array. In his anhecould With surprising accuracy calculate in a se minutes, ae--rdin to hat he could se of thei formation, and theextent of the ground Whicii ther cupiod the numerical forceo armies of fixi thousanxor ei ty thousan men Andrist irrimops mere at ali acauered, he knemat onoe ho longi mould require them to concentrate, an ho many Mummus elapse besore the could mine thei attach.' 81. There is no even round sor apprehensio in halthos Who en My riendiis promotion to the abine pretendullis them With Harm that heris incap te of sol restriantand moderation that he illisse the honora, confer u nhim fortis o menda. his is no human nature. The manwho has once fel that heris regardedi paritamen and thepeopte a a belove and Valu te citigen, consider nothingcomparabie to that distinction. I could wis that this distinction ad bosallen many I could montionis thei stratentrance to public life Thermould not through despatris obtaining succes by legitimate meana, have turneo the wholesoro of thoir intellectrio the pursuit of Vulgar applause. ytrion has boon through lis so thoroughi opposed ii princi- plerio these osterer of sedition that When Pheariis prom tio opposed Lam constriane to bellove that thermare somemho arsilie Wit enu at his exortiona and eat, an amatun a seein a life-long anxiet to assis the state recogniκed by the governmen and theseoplo a large It,ere devovit to e Wished that many hos position requires simila exertions Would imitate his laborious liso Heris nolonger oungis in soland health, and et he neve dentes himself to an petitioner, o spenda pontis domestic allatrao recreationis legitimate portionis his time.

82. The odium os Cicero' deat fel chienno Anthony,

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EXERCISES. 89yet it toti a stiani perstu and ingratitudo iam on Augustus,

Whicli explatus the re o of that silenco hic is observina ut his by tho writer os that age, and Wh his nam is nota much a mentione bymorace and Virgil. For although his character Would have sumiahed a glorioua aulaeo forma nobi linea, et it Wa no subject for muri poeta, sino the very mentionis him mus have been a aure omine prince, especiali Whilo Anthon lived among the sycophanis os Whos cour it Was saahionable tori est his memor tis ali themothod os caluinny that Wit and malice could inveni. ΝΜ, Virgil, o an occasio that hardly could have falle os bring-

in his to hi mind instea of oin justice to his meriis, chos in do an injustice to Romemtself, by rieldin theauperioritros eloquenoe to the Greeta, hic they themaeivea Would have been forcodri yiel to Cicero. 83. Is the ask What is in us os sindyla in histor os

tu states, letis ans e that morat an intellectual grea, nem is no alWavs me ured by physical greatness that theamalineas os a state es useu uotona andriutinens the wWeros iis citigens, and mines tho historror smali common ealtha more instructive leason in politica than in histor os ahuge empire. Is, are asked What in the se of studying the evenis and institutiona o times oria removed romiuro nola ita ansWer that distance is notrio be me ured simHyb lapse of time, and that hos Mea hic gave iri tolitoratur an ari and politica free more omelime onlyb analog and indirect innuence, somelimes is actuat causean effect no distant, ut very nea torus indein Let usgis to the histor os Greece and of Rome in thei chosen perioda, thei duo place in the histor of mankino; ut notmore tha thei due place Letis laocon the ancients the

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rialia consedera . o a the strat o proscribe an tomassacre the leadem of the pari opposed to im; ut his Vie a Were nario in sordid, and he oo no measures toaecum the ascenden is the popular faction Whichio had lodio victory. Satiate Wit the acquisition os a sevent consulfhip he a snalched ama by a timet cloath rom thodisgrace and ruin With Whic his frienda ere speedit ove taken. The retur os Sulla, the champion os nobility, illi his vetera legionarim Asia, surprised them Without plana O refour s. The oungeriarius thre himsol into thoarma of the Samnites, stili in implacabie enemies of Rome, and offers to transferri their count 'ho eat os empire. The vie a of Sulla, o the ollior and were thoroughlynationes. The m sacres by hichio decimato tho Italianraces, in proscriptions is hic he weptis the leadors of the popular pari in the city together With his vigorous exe cis of the extraordinar poWera hic the gratitude of the triumphant nobis conferre umn him in abrogatin lawawhic had xod for more than a generatio the balance of the constitution ali tendo to the fame encl, - the restOration and delance of the Roman ligarchy. 85. The character of the great hingit ontus hos comedo it u ladon it ali the crimes his rivata malovolencocould Iaston um it an in ostimatiniit, must neve sor-get that the ourcos rom hic our historians re their information ero in narratives of nscrupulous oes Woknow of no native documenta hic the could have consulted, and the memolr os Sulla himself the persona opponent of Μithridates, ero doubilosa deemed by the Romanatho most authentic recorda of the contes betWoen them hme, hoWeVer, o many roos of the malignit of their Writer tota an respectrio thei estimate of thei enemieS.

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EXERCIS . Mrais a re udico in his favor And When e consider, in addition in magnanimi te re Messi displayed, e hallbo tho mors incline to look orither explanations of the crime impute in him than in natura barbarit to hichou authorities complacenti reser hom. The massacre Oftho Roman soluor throughout thei Asiati possessions, Whic tollamed pon the succes of ithridates, is more likolyrio have been an actis nationa venMance tha thoexocution, a the historiana repori, of a Urant' mandate. 86. A the eopleiecam graduali amare that the great revolutio os in sociat War ad rought Wit it more modand los ovi inania been anticipatet, the extensionis therights of the metropolis to tho distant provinces tost the character of an inconsistenc an anomal in tho constitution. Loca preJudices die aWay in the familia contemplationis the asines of the empire an in mutua relationshipis ita severa members. The in os the nation expandod to thoconceptioni inmsin unit os sentiment into a bod Whichmas tello is a single effori an stoma common centre. Ono after another there amas political orises hich demandod tho combinationis est theso era of the state in a singio hancl. The successis eata experiment ecam an argument for ita repotition tin tho idea os submission to the permanent rule otone an fidit eased to hoc and was nail hallo Minacclamation. The monarchy Wa at sim velle under the old republica forma Gradually the Veii Waa dropperi. Laatly, the theor os a republic a dismissed 'om men' mincla and soli into tho amo oblivio into hic ita rea force had ab

87. Whomine minxos a nation is thus excito an intoxicato by ita fervid aspirationa, it Melis esse hom ita omWant of definito iam in hesling the appe ance of a leaderit

olearer Viems an more decisive action. t Wanta a hero to

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92 EXERCISES. Who prosenla himself as an ob octrior ita admiration, and tocaro him forWard on his career in triumph. Marius, Sulla, an Pompeius each in his turn laime thia eager homago os the multitudo, but the two forme had passed aWay With their generation, and the las live to dis potat the opes of his admirere, for homi Was nes cap te os extending the circuit of the politica horizon. For a moment the multitude Wa d Hed by tho eloquenoe an activit o Cicero; ut nolinoriada tho intellectuia ista hic ars flue t load apeople onmard. The Romana hane him a the savio. and father of his country M another Romulus or Camillus; but thia Was in a sit os transient enthusiam for the ast When thelaminda ere recurring to the momen to thei early foundemand preservers. It was stili to the future that inelaiyes mero constanti directed an it,a notriit in genius os Caesar burat um them it an in rapidit an decisionis iis movemenis that the could recognige in an of the aspirantator poWer the true captain and laW-give an prophot of the

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88. Tho ing' indignatio an vexation ere extreme. Η Was ango it in opposition, it the ministere, Withali Εnglaud. The natio se moxio his to e unde a judiciat infatuation, blindrio dangem Whic his sagaci se eived tot reat, ear, an formidabie, an morbidi apprehensive of dangera hic his conscience toto him eremo clangem Mall. The perverso istandem ero illinxto trusi Verythingthat a mos precinus to them, thei independence, their proporty thei IaWs, their religion to the moderation and good ait o France, to the winos and the aves, to the steadinessan experinos of battalion o ploughmen commande is squires an Fet ther ere astaixto trus him With the moanaos protecting them, test ho Ahould uae hos moans for thedestructionis in liberties Whioli he had fave trom extreme peril, hic he had fence With nossecurities, hichio hin