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The Honourable Giles Henderson is beholden to no man and to no corporation, and will go into office prepared to do justice impartially to all." "Bu copia verborum let us to the main business!" To an hundred newspapers, to Mr. Flint at Fairview, and other important personages ticks out the momentous news that the balloting has begun.
How one does tremble with rage at his own intense momentary stupidity about things he knows perfectly well, and to think how he lays himself open to the impertinences of the captatores verborum, those useful but humble scavengers of the language, whose business it is to pick up what might offend or injure, and remove it, hugging and feeding on it as they go!
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.
The Honourable Giles Henderson is beholden to no man and to no corporation, and will go into office prepared to do justice impartially to all." "Bu copia verborum let us to the main business!" To an hundred newspapers, to Mr. Flint at Fairview, and other important personages ticks out the momentous news that the balloting has begun.
"Delectus verborum origo est eloquentiae was the saying of JULIUS CAESAR; one so curious in his, that none of them can be changed but for the worse. "One would think 'Unlock the door! was a thing as vulgar as could be spoken; and yet SENECA could make it sound high and lofty, in his Latin "Reserate clusos regii postes Laris. "Thus, CRITES! I have endeavoured to answer your objections.
It is sounder divinity to say, that the consecration of a sacrament doth not depend ex certa aliqua formula verborum. For it is evident that, in baptism, there is not a certain form of words prescribed, as Bellarmine also proveth; because Christ saith not, “Say, I baptise thee in the name,” &c.: so that he prescribeth not what should be done.
He replies to them with delicate irony and covert rebuke, which Erasmus, in his turn, pretends not to understand. He was now 'in want in the midst of plenty', simul et in media copia et in summa inopia. That is to say, he was engaged in preparing for Badius's press the De copia verborum ac rerum, formerly begun at Paris; it was dedicated to Colet.
It is probable, however, that in these he showed his special aptitude for archaeological research, and passed over the history in a rapid sketch. Special grammatical studies were carried on by VERRIUS FLACCUS, a freedman, whose great work, De Verborum Significatu, the first Latin lexicon conducted on an extensive scale, we possess in an abridgment by Festus.
First there were the figurae verborum, or figures of language, which sought agreeable sounds alone or in combination, such as antitheses, rhymes, and assonances. Then the figurae sententiarum, or figures of thought, such as rhetorical questions, hints, and exclamations. Quintilian classifies as tropes words or phrases converted from their proper signification to another.
For language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. Animadverte, says Hobbes, quam sit ab improprietate verborum pronum hominihus prolabi in errores circa ipsas res! Egregie vero J. C. Scaliger, in Lib.
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