Cicero

Examples

• Sch?ffer cast a font of Greek type, and used this in printing a copy of Cicero’s De Officiis, which was eagerly bought by the professors and students of the great University of Paris. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Thomson's Seasons, Hayley's Cowper, Middleton's Cicero, were by far the lightest, newest, and most amusing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• One single man is to be noted as inspired by broad ideas and an ambition not entirely egoistic, Cicero. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I see you have had our Lowick Cicero here, she said, seating herself comfortably, throwing back her wraps, and showing a thin but well-built figure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Like Socrates, Cicero turns away from the phenomena of the heavens to civil and political life. Plato. The Republic.
• Octavian, who became at last the monarch of Rome, seems to have made an effort to save Cicero; that murder was certainly not his crime. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The voices of our dead ancestors, whose portraits hang on the wall, and the eloquent words of Demosthenes and Cicero would be preserved to us. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Another from Cicero: O vit? philosophia dux! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There is nothing so absurd, says Cicero, which has not sometimes been asserted by some philosophers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Cicero de Finibus, lib. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This unfortunate peculiarity in the taste of his countrymen is remarked by Cicero. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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