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The Lady who desires me for her Sake to end one of my Papers with the following Letter, I am persuaded, thinks such a Perseverance very impracticable. Husband, Stay more at home. The Colonel whom you charged me to see no more, is in Town. Martha Housewife. No. 179. Tuesday, September 25, 1711. Addison. 'Centuriae seniorum agitant expertia frugis: Celsi praetereunt austera Poemata Rhamnes.
'Est bona librorum et provisæ frugis in annum Copia." It would be difficult to find a better example of the honourable independence and cheerful self-reliance which should distinguish a man of letters, and which characterised Hume throughout his career.
The reader will appreciate the value of these from the continual references to Gellius which have been made in this work. The style of Gellius abounds with archaisms and rare words, e.g., edulcare, recentari, aeruscator, adulescentes frugis, elegans verborum, and shows an unnecessary predilection for frequentatives.
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