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iful= 15 =face, and a beautiful behaviour than a beautiful form.= _Emerson._ =A beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.= _Clarendon._ =A beautiful woman is the "hell" of the soul, the "purgatory" of the purse, and the "paradise" of the eyes.= _Fontenelle._ =A beggarly account of empty boxes.= _Rom. and Jul._, v. 1. =A beggar's purse is always empty.= _Pr._ =A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation,= 20 =has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest.= _Goethe._ =Abends wird der Faule fleissig=--Towards evening the lazy man begins to be busy. _Ger. Pr._ =A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading fertility.= _Epicurus._ =Aberrare a scopo=--To miss the mark. =Abeunt studia in mores=--Pursuits assiduously prosecuted become habits. =Ab extra=--From without. 25 =Abgründe liegen im Gemüthe, die tiefer als die Hölle sind=--There are abysses in the mind that are deeper than hell. _Platen._ =Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret=--Nothing deters a good man from what honour requires of him. _Sen._ =A big head and little wit.= _Pr._ =Ab igne ignem=--Fire from fire. =Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit=--He has left, gone 30 off, escaped, broken away. _Cic. of Catiline's flight._ =Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.= _Swedenborg._ =Ab incunabilis=--From the cradle. =Ab initio=--From the beginning. =Ab inopia ad virtutem obsepta est via=--The way from poverty to virtue is an obstructed one. _Pr._ =Ab intra=--From within. 35 =Ab irato=--In a fit of passion. =A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.= _Pr._ =A bis et à blanc=--By fits and starts. _Fr._ =A bitter and perplex'd "What shall I do?" is worse to man than worst necessity.= _Schiller._ =A black hen will lay a white egg.= _Pr._ 40 =A blind man should not judge of colours.= _Pr._ =A blockhead can find more faults than a wise man can mend.= _Gael. Pr._ =A blue-stocking despises her duties as a woman, and always begins by making herself a man.= _Rousseau._ =Abnormis sapiens=--Wise without learning. _Hor._ =A bon chat bon rat=--A good rat to match a good 45 cat. Tit for tat. _Pr._ =A bon chien il ne vient jamais un bon os=--A good bone never falls to a good dog. _Fr. Pr._ =A bon droit=--Justly; according to reason. _Fr._ =A bon marché=--Cheap. _Fr._ =A book may be as great a thing as a battle.= _Disraeli._ =A book should be luminous, but not voluminous.= 50 _Bovee._ =Ab origine=--From the beginning. =About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.= _Amiel._ =Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.= _Pope._ =Above all things reverence thyself.= _Pythagoras._ =Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.= _Victor Hugo._ =Ab ovo=--From the beginning (_lit._ from the egg). =Ab ovo usque ad mala=--From the beginning to 5 the end (_lit._ from the egg to the apples). =A bras ouverts=--With open arms. _Fr._ =A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.= _Arist._ =A brave spirit struggling with adversity is a spectacle for the gods.= _Sen._ =A breath can make them, as a breath has made.= _Goldsmith._ =Abrégé=--Abridgment. _Fr._ 10 =Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent, passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and lights up a fire.= _La Roche._ =Absence makes the heart grow fonder.= _Bayly._ =Absence of occupation is not rest; / A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.= _Cowper._ =Absens hæres non erit=--The absent one will not be the heir. _Pr._ =Absent in body, but present in spirit.= _St._ 15 _Paul._ =Absit invidia=--Envy apart. =Absit omen=--May the omen augur no evil. =Absolute fiends are as rare as angels, perhaps rarer.= _J. S. Mill._ =Absolute freedom is inhuman.= _Rahel._ =Absolute individualism is an absurdity.= _Amiel._ 20 =Absolute nothing is the aggregate of all the contradictions of the world.= _Jonathan Edwards._ =Absque argento omnia vana=--Without money all is vain. =Abstineto a fabis=--Having nothing to do with elections (_lit._ Abstain from beans, the ballot at Athens having been by beans). =Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit=--It is absurd that he should govern others, who knows not how to govern himself. _L. Max._ =Abundat dulcibus vitiis=--He abounds in charming 25 faults of style. _Quint._ =Ab uno ad omnes=--From one to all. _M._ =Ab uno disce omnes=--From a single instance you may infer the whole. =Ab urbe condita= (A.U.C.)--From the building of the city, _i.e._, of Rome. =A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.= _J. S. Mill._ =A burnt child dreads the fire.= _Pr._ 30 =Abusus non tollit usum=--Abuse is no argument against use. _Pr._ =Academical years ought by rights to give occupation to the whole mind. It is this time which, well or ill employed, affects a man's whole after-life.= _Goethe._ =A cader va chi troppo in alto sale=--He who climbs too high is near a fall. _It. Pr._ =A capite ad calcem=--From head to heel. =A careless master makes a negligent servant.= 35 _Pr._ =A carper will cavil at anything.= _Pr._ =A carrion kite will never make a good hawk.= _Pr._ ="A cat may look at a king," but can it= _see_ =a king when it looks at him?= _Ruskin._ =A causa perduta parole assai=--Plenty of words when the cause is lost. _It. Pr._ =Accasca in un punto quel che non accasca in= 40 =cento anni=--That may happen in a moment which may not occur again in a hundred years. _It. Pr._ =Accedas ad curiam=--You may go to the court. A writ to remove a case to a higher court. _L. Term._ =Accensa domo proximi, tua quoque periclitatur=--When the house of your neighbour is on fire, your own is in danger. _Pr._ =Accent is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth.= _Rousseau._ =Acceptissima semper / Munera sunt, auctor quæ pretiosa facit=--Those presents are always the most acceptable which owe their value to the giver. _Ovid._ =Accident ever varies; substance can never= 45 =suffer change or decay.= _Wm. Blake._ =Accidents rule men, not men accidents.= _Herodotus._ =Accipe nunc, victus tenuis quid quantaque secum afferat. In primis valeas bene=--Now learn what and how great benefits a moderate diet brings with it. Before all, you will enjoy good health. _Hor._ =Accipere quam facere præstat injuriam=--It is better to receive than to do an injury. _Cic._ =Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat=--The mind attracted by what is false has no relish for better things. _Hor._ =Accusare nemo se debet nisi coram Deo=--No 50 man is bound to accuse himself unless it be before God. _L. Max._ =Accuse not Nature; she hath done her part; / Do thou thine.= _Milton._ =Acer et vehemens bonus orator=--A good orator is pointed and impassioned. _Cic._ =Acerrima proximorum odia=--The hatred of those most closely connected with us is the bitterest. _Tac._ =Acerrimus ex omnibus nostris sensibus est sensus videndi=--The keenest of all our senses is the sense of sight. _Cic._ =A certain degree of soul is indispensable to= 55 =save us the expense of salt.= _Ben Jonson._ =A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light."= _Emerson._ =A chacun selon sa capacité, à chaque capacité selon ses œuvres=--Every one according to his talent, and every talent according to its works. _Fr. Pr._ =A chacun son fardeau pèse=--Every one thinks his own burden heavy. _Fr. Pr._ =A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.= _Byron._ =A chaque fou plaît sa marotte=--Every fool is 60 pleased with his own hobby. _Fr. Pr._ =A character is a completely-fashioned will.= _Novalis._ =Ach! aus dem Glück entwickelt sich Schmerz=--Alas! that from happiness there so often springs pain. _Goethe._ =A cheerful life is what the Muses love; / A soaring spirit is their prime delight.= _Wordsworth._ =Acheruntis pabulum=--Food for Acheron. _Plaut._ =Ach! es geschehen keine Wunder mehr=--Alas! there are no more any miracles. _Schiller._ =A child is a Cupid become visible.= _Novalis._ =A child may have too much of its mother's blessing.= _Pr._ =A chill air surrounds those who are down in= 5 =the world.= _George Eliot._ =A chip of the old block.= =A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.= _Hare._ =Ach! unsre Thaten selbst, so gut als unsre Leiden / Sie hemmen unsers Lebens Gang=--We are hampered, alas! in our course of life quite as much by what we do as by what we suffer. _Goethe._ =Ach! vielleicht indem wir hoffen / Hat uns Unheil getroffen=--Ah! perhaps while we are hoping, mischief has already overtaken us. _Schiller._ =Ach wie glücklich sind die Todten!=--Ah! how 10 happy the dead are! _Schiller._ =Ach! zu des Geistes Flügeln, wird so leicht kein körperlicher Flügel sich gesellen=--Alas! no fleshly pinion will so easily keep pace with the wings of the spirit. _Goethe._ =A circulating library in a town is an ever-green tree of diabolical knowledge.= _Sheridan._ =A circumnavigator of the globe is less influenced by all the nations he has seen than by his nurse.= _Jean Paul._ =A clear conscience is a sure card.= _Pr._ =A cock aye craws crousest (boldest) on his ain= 15 =midden-head.= _Sc. Pr._ =A cœur ouvert=--With open heart; with candour. _Fr._ =A cœur vaillant rien d'impossible=--To a valiant heart nothing is impossible. _Fr. Pr._ =A cold hand, a warm heart.= _Pr._ =A combination, and a form, indeed / Where every god did seem to set his seal / To give the world assurance of a man.= _Ham._, iii. 4. =A' complain o' want o' siller; nane o' want o'= 20 =sense.= _Sc. Pr._ =A compte=--In part payment (_lit._ on account). _Fr._ =A confesseurs, médecins, avocats, la vérité ne cèle de ton cas=--Do not conceal the truth from confessors, doctors, and lawyers. _Fr. Pr._ =A conscience without God is a tribunal without a judge.= _Lamartine._ =A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.= _Disraeli._ =A constant fidelity in small things is a great= 25 =and heroic virtue.= _Bonaventura._ =A constant friend is a thing hard and rare to find.= _Plutarch._ =A contre cœur=--Against the grain. _Fr._ =A corps perdu=--With might and main. _Fr._ =A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.= _Ham._, i. 2. =A courage to endure and to obey.= _Tennyson._ 30 =A couvert=--Under cover. _Fr._ =Acqua lontana non spegne fuoco vicino=--Water afar won't quench a fire at hand. _It. Pr._ =A crafty knave needs no broker.= _Pr. quoted in Hen. VI._ =A craw's nae whiter for being washed.= _Sc. Pr._ =A creation of importance can be produced only= 35 =when its author isolates himself; it is ever a child of solitude.= _Goethe._ =Acribus initiis, incurioso fine=--Full of