 | Livy - Rome - 1797 - 504 pages
...wealth ; and that, if that matter had been doubt" ful hitherto, the words of their ambafladors, juft " now, had reduced it to a certainty; as, in general, " treachery, though at firft fufficiently cautious, yet, " in the end, betrays itfelf. The Rhodians, by their " mefiengers,... | |
 | Livy - Rome - 1823 - 482 pages
...commonwealth ; and that, if that matter had been doubtful hitherto, the words of their ambassadors, just now, had reduced it to a certainty ; as, in general,...arbiters of war and peace throughout the world : at their nod the Romans must take up arms and lay them down ; and must soon appeal, not to the gods, but to... | |
 | Livy - 1836 - 422 pages
...commonwealth ; and that, if that matter had been doubtful hitherto, the words of their ambassadors just now had reduced it to a certainty ; as, in general,...arbiters of war and peace throughout the world; at their nod the Romans must take up arms and lay them down ; and must soon appeal, not to the gods, but to... | |
 | Livy - Rome - 1850 - 642 pages
...commonwealth ; and that, if that matter had been doubtful hitherto, the words of their ambassadors, just now, had reduced it to a certainty ; as, in general,...sufficiently cautious, yet, in the end, betrays itself. Were the Rhodians now to act the part of arbiters of war and peace throughout the world ? were the... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 594 pages
...worse and weaker party. TREACHERY. xliv. 15. Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit. In general, treachery, though at first sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays itself. MAN OF SPIRIT. xlv. 8. Is demum vir erit, cujus animum nee prospera statu suo efferet, neo adversa... | |
 | L.T. Townsend - 1873 - 268 pages
...the last it never fails of doing itself justice ; for every guilty person is his own hangman. SENECA. In general, treachery, though at first sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays itself. LIVY. Extreme avarice almost always makes mistakes. There is no passion that oftener misses its aim,... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 690 pages
...actuates the vulgar, even in contests of sport, of favoring the worse and weaker party. TREACHERY. In general, treachery, though at first sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays itself. MAN OF SPIRIT. He alone will deserve the character of a man, who suffers not his spirit to be elated... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, Latin - 1884 - 694 pages
...actuates the vulgar, even in contests of sport, of favoring the worse and weaker party. TBEACHEBY. In general, treachery, though at first sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays itself. MAN OF SPIBIT. He alone will deserve the character of a man, who suffers not his spirit to be elated... | |
 | Livy - Rome - 1885 - 644 pages
...commonwealth ; and that, if that matter had been doubtful Litherto, the words of their ambassadors, just now, had reduced it to a certainty ; as, in general,...sufficiently cautious, yet, in the end, betrays itself. Were the Rhodians now to act the part of arbiters of war and peace throughout the world ? were the... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...which actuates the vulgar, even in contests of sport, of favoring the wont and weaker party. TREACHERY. iff MAN OF SPIRIT. 618 510 vorable gales of fortune, nor to be broken by its adverse blasts. ARROGANCE.... | |
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... at the commencement of the present war, the Roman people had learned, from unquestionable authority, that the Rhodians, in concert with King Perseus, had formed secret machinations against their commonwealth ; and that, if that matter had been doubtful... 
