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I know there is nothing like a knowledge of the classics to give a man good breeding — Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes emollunt mores, nec sinuisse feros.
The Newcomes 2006
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This object of literary studies, the formation of a personality fitted for civilised life, may be summed up in the familiar graceful words of Ovid, who was thinking almost entirely of literature when he wrote ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes
Cambridge Essays on Education Various
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_Fuit hoc in utroque eorum, ut Crassus non tam existimari vellet non didicisse, quam illa despicere, et nostrorum hominum in omni genere prudentiam Græcis anteferre.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Antonius autem probabiliorem populo orationem fore censebat suam, si omninò didicisse nunquam putaretur; atque ita se uterque graviorem fore, si alter contemnere, alter ne nosse quidem Græcos videretur.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Neque hoc ulla historica cognitione didicisse se affirmant, sed quali ratiocinando conjectant, es quod intra con vexa coeli terra suspenda sit, eum demque locum mundas habeat, et infirmum, et medium: et ex hoc opinantur alteram terra pattern, quae infra est, habitatione hominum carere non posse.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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_Ingenuas didicisse_, &c. Terms, which vary according to the circumstances of the parents, may be known on application to me by letter, post paid.
The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855
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_Ingenuas didicisse_, &c. Terms, which vary according to the circumstances of the parents, may be known on application to me by letter, post-paid.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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“Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores.”
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845
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I know there is nothing like a knowledge of the classics to give a man good breeding -- Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes emollunt mores, nec sinuisse feros.
The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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‘ingenuas didicisse’ — but he refrained, and we went into the room, where a score of students were assembled, who all looked away from their drawing-boards as we entered.
The Newcomes 2006
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