Word: ciceroism
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Passing on to the Stoics, the professor spoke of the doctrines of Caesar, who held the view that there was no eternal life, and of Cato and Cicero, both of whom agreed with the views of Caesar. Marcus Aurelius was a more cautious stoic, never directly offering any view upon immortality. The influence which these men held upon Roman thought was very great. The conflicting tendencies of the religion of the second century were mentioned. The hopeless cynicism of Pliny was contrasted with the faith of Vergil, who had a deep consciousness of the ethical demand for retribution...
...Cicero's translation from the Greek compared with the originals...
LOST.- In the yard, leaves from a text of Cicero's Orator, with pencil notes. The finder will oblige by leaving them at Leavitt and Peirce...
...habe ich gesehen, dass der gemeine Mann doch so gar nichts Weiss von der christlichen Lehre:"- no more proves a power of style in German literature, than Cobbett's sinewy idiomatic. Power of style, properly so called, as manifested in masters of style like Dante or Milton in poetry, Cicero, Bossuet, or Holingbroke in prose, is something quite different, and has, as I have said, for its characteristic effect, this: to add dignity and distinction...
Professor Lane's beautiful field spaniel, Otto Obo, took two prizes at the recent dog show in Boston. Besides the perfection of his points, this dog has the "grand air"; and Cicero would have admitted him into his nobile genus canum. Although small in size, some people considered him the Canis Major of the show...