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Reproduction of the original: Cicero by W. Lucas Collins

Reproduction of the original: Cicero by W. Lucas Collins

Excerpt from Ancient Classics for English Readers: Hesiod and TheognisNearest to him in claims of antiquity, even if we grant that his style is less interesting, and his matter not so attractive: Indeed one argument for including Hesiod in the series of Ancient Classics for English Readers may be found in the fact that nine out of twelve stu dents finish their classical course with but the vaguest acquaintance with his remains. Such, therefore...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from VirgilThis volume of the Series was to have been under taken by the late Mr Conington. N one can be more sensible than the present writer of the loss which all readers have sustained in the substitution rendered necessary by his lamented death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. ...

Excerpt from Ancient Classic for English ReadersMacedonia would conquer the East, and become the mistress of the entire liberties of Greece.But there is one significant tradition about Aristotle which suggests circumstances likely to have produced in early life a considerable in¿uence upon his habits and pursuits. His father is said to have been an Asclepiad, - that is, he belonged to that distinguished caste who claimed to be the descendants ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Ancient Classics for English Readers: Catullus, Tibullus, and PropertiusPoems' (smith Elder: in which the trans lations of Propertius are sadly too few. In the course of the work the writer has found that it is perfectly vain to expect the reader to take kindly to the versions of Professor Robinson Ellis, but he may tolerate the few that are given for their exact literality and evident scholarship. Mr Paley's versions, where they ...

Excerpt from VirgilThis volume of the Series was to have been taken by the late Mr Conington. N one can be more sensible than the present writer of the loss which all readers have sustained in the substitution rendered necessary by his lamented death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgot...

Excerpt from AristophanesHere, in his native tongue and among his own countrymen, Punch is a person of real power he dresses up and retails all the drolleries of the day he is the channel and sometimes the source of the passing Opinions, he could gain a mob, or keep the whole kingdom in good humour. - Forsyth's Italy, ii. 35.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotten...

Excerpt from Ancient Classics: For English ReadersThere is, however, a far more interesting question, to which we may yet be enabled to give an answer by a careful study of the Satires of J livenal, and that con sists in the consideration Of the gradual development of the high moral qualities with which our poet was endowed. We have elsewhere endeavoured to point out how we may trace the fierce and almost truculent satire of his youth graduall...

Excerpt from LucianThe figures of Mercury so commonly set up in the streets and at the gates of houses were mere busts without arms, and could not have required any very great amount of art in their production.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolog...

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Excerpt from The Public Schools: Winchester Westminster Shrewsbury Harrow Rugby, Notes of Their History and Traditions These notices of the past and present of our Public Schools appeared, like 'etoniana, ' in Blackwood's Magazine? They seemed sufficiently popular to justify their republication in a somewhat enlarged and corrected shape. They are still confessedly ih complete, but they may help to preserve some re cord of earlier phases of pu...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

The Public Schools - Winchester--Westminster--Shrewsbury--Harrow--Rugby is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available tod...