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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 230 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=13mm, Gew.=340gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: io. Oft. 2-7] NOv r' 'AwiiJc/, As f 4 To xpa, T$v yap vCv ftofwf Ta feoc. Mcnan. I Am grown fond of the Greek Tongue, which I underftand mighty well by the Help of the Latin Tranflation cver-againft the Original, in fuch Authors as I pretend to quote. My Motto of to Day is this, Ob Impudence! theu gretteft of the Goddeffes; // it be Uwful to ca.fl Thee A Goddefs. But 1 hou Art one: tor, As the IV or Id goes vow, whatever has Power if rvor- fltipped As A Deity. Iris pity we have only Fragments of this Author, upon whom Terence form- .d himfelf; and who, by what we may guefs from thefe little Remains of him, had a comick Force and Sharpnefs, which is bewailed as wanting in that admirable Latin Comedian. The Circumftance and Character of the Perfon who was made to fpeak this Sentence, would undoubtedly have added to the Beauty of the Expreffion; bur, as it is bereft of all thofc Advantages, it is full of Inftrulion: For who is there unacquamted with the Force of Impudence ? which, though it implies the A b fence of all good Qualities in the Perfon who is pof- fefled of it, ferves him to all Intents and Purpo- fes with a Supply of all the Faculties he can pof- fibly want.He that has Impudence enough tocall himfelf, with a good Air and fteady gay Countenance, a good-for-nothing-Fellow, is Mafter of all the Arts and Sciences; and will go further, in his own Service, than if he haa them all encumbred with Modefty. The hideous Faces of infignificant Fellows that are fmugged up, and take their Stands in publick Aflernblies to give and receive Salutations, are ridiculous and pleafant Inftances of the Force of this Qualification. When it runs no farther, than Peoples being better pleafed with themfelves than they have Pretence to be from Gifts of Nature, or Acquifitions ...<