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This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the
armipotent soldier.
This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the
armipotent soldier.
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of
Latin.
[Lat., Omnia Graece!
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Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of
Latin.
[Lat., Omnia Graece!
Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.]
He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease
Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.
He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease
Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.
He attempts to use language which he does not know.
[Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.]
He attempts to use language which he does not know.
[Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.]
Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook
their heads; but for mine own part, if read more
But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook
their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.
Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin.
Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin.
