 Nor ought we to dissemble this truth, which cannot be concealed, but declare it openly : we .are all influenced by the love of praise, and the greatest minds have the greatest passion for glory.  Cicero's Select Orations - Page 297by Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1811 - 671 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...barbarous vcrfcs oí the poets born at Corduba. Nor ought we to diflemble this truth, which cannot be concealed, but declare it openly : we are all influenced by the love of praife, and the greatclr. minds have the greatelV paffion for glory. The philoiophers themfelves prefix... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...and barbarous verfes of the poets born at Corduba. Nor ought we to diflemble this truth, which cinnot be concealed, but declare it openly : we are all influenced by the love of praife, and the grc.itd! minds have the grL-atcft paflion for glory. The philofophers themfclves prefix... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...and barbarons verses of the poets born at Corduba. Nor ought we to dissemble this truth, which cannot be concealed, but declare it openly : we .are all...desirous of praise and fame, while they affect to despise them. Decimus Brutus, that great commander and excellent man, adorned the monuments of his family and... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...dissemble this truth, which cannot be concealed, but declare it openly: we arc all influenced by the lovo of praise, and the greatest minds have the greatest...they write upon the contempt of glory ; by which they shew that they arc desirous of praise and fame, while they affect to despise them. Dccimus Brutus,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...poete born at Corduba. Nor ought we to dissemblo this truth, which cannot be concealed, but declaro Saturday pd shew that they are desirous of praise and fame, while they affect to despise them. Decimus Brutus,... | |
 | 734 pages
...to be slighted and despised, never should I have exposed myself to so many and so great conflicts." We. are all influenced by the love of praise, and...greatest minds have the greatest passion for glory. Virtue desires no ether reward for her toils and dangers, but praise and glory ; take but tliese away,... | |
 | Phrenology - 1829 - 686 pages
...and it forms the key-note of " his pleading, " to dissemble this truth, which cannot be con" cealed, but declare it openly ; we are all influenced by the " love of power, and the greatest minds have the greatest pas" sion for glory." So far Cicero ; and so high,... | |
 | Robert Cox - Phrenology - 1836 - 434 pages
...we," says Cicero, and it forms the key-note of his pleading, " to dissemble this truth, which cannot be concealed, but declare it openly; we are all influenced by the love of power, and the greatest minds have the greatest passion for glory." So far Cicero; and so high, but... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 384 pages
...barbarous verses of the poets born at Corduba. 14 XI. Nor ought we to dissemble this truth, which cannot be concealed, but declare it openly : we are all influenced...they write upon the contempt of glory; by which they shew that they are desirous of praise and fame, while they affect to despise them. Decimus Brutus,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1844 - 306 pages
...barbarous verses of the poets bom at Corduba.* // v Nor ought we to dissemble this truth, which cannot be concealed, but declare it openly : we are all influenced...greatest ; minds have the greatest passion for glory. The * Corduba was a city of Hispania Baetica ; it gave birth to several bad poets, whose barbarous and... | |
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