A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations Ancient and Modern

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Excerpt from A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations Ancient and Modern: With Illustrations From American and English Authors and Explanatory Notes This volume is to be distinguished in some respects from what is commonly known as a Dictionary of Foreign Quotations. There are already in existence several books of various degrees of merit and demerit in which phrases and sentences from Latin, Greek, and some of the modern languages are collected and done into English. The compilers of these volumes have cast out drag-nets, bringing to the surface many samples of the good, the bad, and the indifferent in foreign authors. The greater part of their quotations, however, are unrelated to English literature, either because they have never been quoted or referred to by English writers, or because they are legal phrases and maxims, useful indeed in the arguments of lawyers and opinions of courts, but in no sense literary. Why should such phrases as Actio personalis moritur cum persona, or Ubi jus ibi remedium, find a place in a nonprofessional work? These chaotic "omnium gatherums " have their uses, and provided one knows beforehand pretty well what he wants to find, and what it really means, they enable one to recover the precise words of a dimly remembered line. I do not think there is any reason, except "hunger and the request of friends, " for adding another to the books of this character, and the Manual now offered to the public differs from them in at least three important particulars. First. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.