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of conversation; as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.= _Swift._ =Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has great force though shot by a child.= _Bacon._ =Argumentum ad crumenam=--An appeal to self-interest. =Argumentum ad hominem=--An argument in refutation drawn from an opponent's own principles (_lit._ an argument to the man). =Argumentum ad ignorantiam=--An argument 60 founded on the ignorance of an adversary. =Argumentum ad invidiam=--An argument which appeals to low passions. =Argumentum ad judicium=--An appeal to common sense. =Argumentum ad misericordiam=--An appeal to the mercy of your adversary. =Argumentum ad populum=--An appeal to popular prejudice. =Argumentum ad verecundiam=--An appeal to 65 respect for some authority. =Argumentum baculinum=--Club argument, _i.e._, by physical force. =Argus at home, a mole abroad.= _It. Pr._ =Argus-eyes=--Eyes ever wakeful and watchful. =A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.= _Bible._ [Greek: Ariston metron]--A mean or middle course is best. _Cleobulus._ [Greek: Ariston men hydôr]--Water is best. _Pindar._ =Aristocracy has three successive ages--of superiorities, of privileges, and of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third.= _Chateaubriand._ =Arma amens capio; nec sat rationis in armis=--I 5 madly take to arms; but have not wit enough to use them to any purpose. _Virg._ =Arma cerealia=--The arms of Ceres, _i.e._, implements connected with the preparation of corn and bread. =Arm am Beutel, krank am Herzen=--Poor in purse, sick at heart. _Goethe._ =Arma pacis fulcra=--Arms are the props of peace. _M._ =Arma tenenti omnia dat, qui justa negat=--He who refuses what is just, gives up everything to an enemy in arms. _Luc._ =Arma, viri, ferte arma; vocat lux ultima victos, /= 10 =Nunquam omnes hodie moriemur inulti=--Arms, ye men, bring me arms! their last day summons the vanquished. We shall never all die unavenged this day. _Virg._ =Armé de foi hardi=--Bold from being armed with faith. _M._ =Armes blanches=--Side arms. _Fr._ =Arm in Arm mit dir, / So fordr' ich mein Jahrhundert in die Schranken=--Arm in arm with thee, I defy the century to gainsay me. _Schiller._ =Arms and the man I sing.= _Virg._ =Armuth des Geistes Gott erfreut, / Armuth,= 15 =und nicht Armseligkeit=--It is poverty of spirit that God delights in--poverty, and not beggarliness. _Claudius._ =Armuth ist der sechste Sinn=--Poverty is the sixth sense. _Ger. Pr._ =Armuth ist die grösste Plage, / Reichtum ist das höchste Gut=--Poverty is the greatest calamity, riches the highest good. _Goethe._ =Armuth ist listig, sie fängt auch einen Fuchs=--Poverty is crafty; it outwits (_lit._ catches) even a fox. _Ger. Pr._ =Armuth und Hunger haben viel gelehrte Jünger=--Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. _Ger. Pr._ =A rogue is a roundabout fool.= _Coleridge._ 20 =A rolling stone gathers no moss.= _Pr._ =A Rome comment à Rome=--At Rome do as Rome does. _Fr. Pr._ =A royal heart is often hid under a tattered coat.= _Dan. Pr._ =Arrectis auribus adsto=--I wait with listening ears. _Virg._ =Arrière pensée=--A mental reservation. _Fr._ 25 =Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.= _Bion._ =Ars artium omnium conservatrix=--The art preservative of all others, _viz._, printing. =Ars est celare artem=--It is the perfection of art to conceal art. _Ovid._ =Ars est sine arte, cujus principium est mentiri, medium laborare, et finis mendicare=--It is an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. _Applied originally to the pursuits of the Alchemists._ =Ars longa, vita brevis=--Art is long, life is short. 30 =Ars varia vulpis, ast una echino maxima=--The fox has many tricks; the hedgehog only one, and that greatest of all. _Pr._ =Art does not represent things falsely, but truly as they appear to mankind.= _Ruskin._ =Arte magistra=--By the aid of art. _Virg._ =Art is a jealous mistress.= _Emerson._ =Art is long and time is fleeting, / And our= 35 =hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like muffled drums, are beating / Funeral marches to the grave.= _Longfellow._ =Art is noble, but the sanctuary of the human soul is nobler still.= _W. Winter._ =Art is not the bread indeed, but it is the wine of life.= _Jean Paul._ =Art is simply a bringing into relief of the obscure thought of Nature.= _Amiel._ =Art is the mediatrix of the unspeakable.= _Goethe._ =Art is the path of the creator to his work.= 40 _Emerson._ =Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power.= _Hare._ =Artists are of three classes: those who perceive and pursue the good, and leave the evil; those who perceive and pursue the good and evil together, the whole thing as it verily is; and those who perceive and pursue the evil, and leave the good.= _Ruskin._ =Artium magister=--Master of arts. =Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.= _Dryden._ =Art may make a suit of clothes, but Nature= 45 =must produce a man.= _Hume._ =Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.= _Hazlitt._ =Art must not be a superficial talent, but must begin further back in man.= _Emerson._ =Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye.= _Willmott._ =Art not thou a man?= _Bible._ =Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a= 50 =deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.= _Goethe._ =Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to live for ever? Live in the whole that remains when thou hast long been gone= (wenn du lange dahin bist). _Schiller._ =A rude âne rude ânier=--A stubborn driver to a stubborn ass. _Fr. Pr._ =A rusty nail, placed near the faithful compass, / Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.= _Scott._ =A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.= _Emerson._ =A saint abroad, a devil at home.= _Pr._ 55 =A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.= _Pope._ =As all men have some access to primary truth, so all have some art or power of communication in the head, but only in the artist does it descend into the hand.= _Emerson._ =As a man makes his bed, so must he lie.= _Gael. Pr._ =As a priest, or interpreter of the holy, is the noblest and highest of all men; so is a sham priest the falsest and basest.= _Carlyle._ =A satirical poet is the check of the layman on= 60 =bad priests.= _Dryden._ =As a tree falls, so shall it lie.= _Pr._ [Greek: asbestos gelôs]--Unquenchable, or Homeric, laughter. _Hom._ =A scalded cat dreads cauld water.= _Sc. Pr._ =As dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That visit my sad heart.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1. =A second Daniel.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1. =A secret is in my custody if I keep it; but if= 5 =I blab it, it is I that am prisoner.= _Arab Pr._ =A self-denial no less austere than the saint's is demanded of the scholar.= _Emerson._ =As ever in my great taskmaster's eye.= _Milton._ =As every great evil, so every excessive power wears itself out at last.= _Herder._ =As falls the dew on quenchless sands, / Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.= _Byron._ =As for discontentments, they are in the politic= 10 =body like humours in the natural, which are apt to gather a preternatural heat and inflame.= _Bacon._ =As formerly we suffered from wickedness, so now we suffer from the laws.= _Tac._ =As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure. But there's no love lost between us.= _Goldsmith._ =As for talkers and futile persons, they are commonly vain and credulous withal.= _Bacon._ =As from the wing no scar the sky retains, / The parted wave no furrow from the keel; So dies in human hearts the thought of death.= _Young._ =As good be out of the world as out of the= 15 =fashion.= _Pr._ =As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.= _Milton._ =As guid fish i' the sea as e'er came oot o't.= _Sc. Pr._ =As guid may haud (hold) the stirrup as he that loups on.= _Sc. Pr._ =A's guid that God sends.= _Sc. Pr._ =As he alone is a good father who at table serves= 20 =his children first, so is he alone a good citizen who, before all other outlays, discharges what he owes to the state.= _Goethe._ =As he who has health is young, so he who owes nothing is rich.= _Pr._ =A short cut is often a wrong cut.= _Dan. Pr._ =A sicht (sight) o' you is guid for sair een.= _Sc. Pr._ =A sick man's sacrifice is but a lame oblation.= _Sir Thomas Browne._ =As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted= 25 =ocean.= _Coleridge._ =A sight to dream of, not to tell.= _Coleridge._ =A silent man's words are not brought into court.= _Dan. Pr._ =A sillerless (moneyless) man gangs fast through the market.= _Sc. Pr._ =A silver key can open an iron lock.= _Pr._ =A simple child, / That lightly draws its breath, /= 30 =And feels its life in every limb, / What should it know of death?= _Wordsworth._ =A simple maiden in her flower, / Is worth a hundred coats of arms.= _Tennyson._ =A simple, manly character need never make an apology.= _Emerson._ =As in a theatre, the eyes of men, / After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, / Are idly bent on him that enters next, / Thinking his prattle to be tedious.= _Rich. II._, v. 2. =A single grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.= _Lessing._ =A single moment may transform everything.= 35 _Wieland._ =A single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold, capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf.= _Trench._ =Asinum sub fræno currere docere=--To teach an ass to obey the rein, _i.e._, to labour in vain. _Pr._ =Asinus ad lyram=--An ass at the lyre, _i.e._, one unsusceptible of music. =Asinus asino, et sus sui pulcher=--An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig to a pig. _Pr._ =Asinus in tegulis=--An ass on the house-tiles. 40 =Asinus inter simias=--An ass among apes, _i.e._, a fool among people who make a fool of him. _Pr._ =Asinus in unguento=--An ass among perfumes, _i.e._, things he cannot appreciate. =As is the garden, such is the gardener.= _Heb. Pr._ =As is the man, so is his God.= _Rückert, Goethe._ =A sip is the most that mortals are permitted= 45 =from any goblet of delight.= _A. B. Alcott._ =Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.= _Jesus._ =Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.= _Bible._ =Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.= _Goldsmith._ =Ask why God made the gem so small, / And why so huge the granite? / Because God meant mankind should set / The higher value on it.= _Burns._ =As long as any man exists, there is some need= 50 =of him.= _Emerson._ =As long lives a merry heart as a sad.= _Pr._ =As love without esteem is capricious and volatile,