Word: cicero
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...like to see the men coming on now in school have something in their mind's eye besides the examination paper. Let the college examine if it will, but on a saner basis. Instead of finding out whether or not a man has read so many books of Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil, let them discover if he can read and write Latin intelligently. From the individual's point of view, his ability to talk French well is certainly more inducive to the continued study of French literature and thought than the knack of setting down verbatim the translation of four...
...course in such matters it is small use to blame anybody, since the only people who mind are those who have done their share. Those that haven't won't, not for the words of editors, nor for the words of bankers, nor for the words of a Cicero in the mouth of a Demosthenes inspired by a Delphic oracle and addressed to the salvation of his country...
...Cicero's Rhetorical Theory and Stoic Philosophy. Mr. Hack...
...course, books have to be borrowed and the institutions which lend them are doing incalculable service. But the value of the home library cannot easily be ex-aggregated. Cicero called a room without books "a body without a soul," and Carlyle tells us that a collection of books is "a real university." Without that collection in sight, ready for use, how beyond the reading of them shall we invoke with Sir John Lubbock, the "crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours after the labors and anxieties of the day? How thankful we ought to be," he adds...
Naturally the influence of commercial expansion can never sound the death-knell of literature. Homer, Cicero, Moliere and Goethe will always be read and appreciated, although the entire world cries for development in trade...