Word: latine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Latin...
...philological club has been started by the students of Latin, at Boston University, which will be made permanent...
...There were exceptions, of course, such as Laurentius Valla, Polilian, Pontanus, Marullus, Ficino, and his fellow Platonists, "amiable browsers in the Medicean park," as George Eliot calls them; but, on the whole, the great aim of Italian scholars was to emulate the form of the ancients to write elegant Latin and Greek." Ciceronianism, the clothing of trifles-often filthy trifles in the purest Latinity, was the final phase of Italian scholarship.-[The National Review...
...there was often through deep snows. When fourteen years old he spent a few months at Phillips academy, Exeter, under the bunion of Dr. Benjamin Abbot. He mastered the principles and philosophy of the English grammar in less than four months, when he immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study were recited to the late Joseph Back-minister, who was at that time a tutor in the academy. Here he was first called upon to "speak in public on the stage," and the effort was a complete failure; for the moment...
...industrious reader of standard authors. and previous to his entering college his favorite books were Addison's Spectator, Butler's Hudibras, and Pope's trans. of Homer, and Essay on Man. He was particularly fond of Shakespeare's plays and Don Quixote. In addition to the Latin classics he studies with interest Demosthenes and a few other Greek writers...