Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- A Chapter supplementary to the Grammar
- EXERCISES
- 1 Judgment of Phocion
- 2 The merciful Lion
- 3 The Mother victim of her Love
- 4 The Conflagration overcome by Maternal Affection
- 5 The Mother inseparable from the Daughter
- 6 At what Price a Son may be saved
- 7 The Son of Metellus to liberate his Father offers his own life
- 8 The Deserter through filial Love
- 9 The loving Daughter
- 10 The Fast through filial Love
- 11 The beneficent Surprise
- 12 Eudocia Empress
- 13 The Swimmer
- 14 The Heroic Substitution
- 15 The loving Division of the Goods
- 16 The Admiral Chabot
- 17 The little Baker of Nérac
- 18 The feigned Condemnation
- 19 Doctor Friend
- 20 The Constant Friend
- 21 The Tribune Cœdicius
- 22 The taking of Calais
- 23 The love of Country recompensed
- 24 The Passions sacrificed to the public Weal
- 25 The Heroine of Leucate
- 26 The Frenchwoman of Spartan heart
- 27 The Victim of his Country
- 28 The Piedmontese Hero
- 29 The generous Grenadier
- 30 The Imperturbables
- 31 Mecænas
- 32 The sincere Courtiers
- 33 Song-chi Chinese Heroine
- 34 Philip the Macedonian
- 35 Ardisheer Babegan, Sophi of Persia
- 36 Titus Flavius Vespasian
- 37 Titus Vespasian
- 38 Trajan
- 39 Antoninus Pius
- 40 Marcus Aurelius
- 41 Publius Ælius Pertinax
- 42 Marcus Claudias Tacitus
- 43 Valentinian II
- 44 Peter the Great
- 45 Disinterestedness of Charles XII
- 46 Love of the Subjects preferred to the paternal
- 47 Frederick II
- 48 Humanity of the Emperor Francis I
- 49 Visit of Maria Theresa
- 50 Joseph II
- 51 The pretended Mediator
- 52 The efficacious Recommendation
- 53 Unfaithfulness condoned and prevented
- 54 Papinianus and Julius Grecinus
- 55 Claudius II
- 56 The Beggar made a Mandarin
- 57 Justice preferred to Life
- 58 Ottoman Justice
- 59 The most upright General
- 60 The Quaker without Imitators
- 61 The Prince more liberal than his Almoner
- 62 The Judge making restitution (restorer)
- 63 Where Virtue may go to burrow
- 64 A Gentleman without Posterity
- 65 Probity preferred to Love
- 66 The Vinedresser who will not buy cheap
- 67 The alms-giving Poor-Woman, and the Poor-man who will not be so
- 68 The honourable Porter, and the Woman who prays (makes prayer) against her own interest
- 69 The Captain who voluntarily degrades himself
- 70 The Father who saves the Slayer of his Son
- 71 Virtue has triumphed over Sex
- 72 Artifice to oblige a Thief to restitution
- 73 The Female who knows to keep silence
- 74 Totila King of the Goths
- 75 The heroic Philanthropy
- 76 The noble and compassionate Butcher
- 77 The Sultan Saladin
- 78 Admirable accord between Doctrine and Practice
- 79 The beneficent Miser
- 80 Xenocrates
- 81 The merited Recompense diverted to another
- 82 The Mistake of a Cipher
- 83 The Amendment
- 84 The good Porter of Milan
- 85 The Heir through Compassion
- 86 The Viscount de Turenne
- 87 The generous Creditor
- 88 Boileau and Catherine II
- 89 The noble Recompense
- 90 The Captain of Algiers
- 91 Mercy remunerated
- 92 Claude Favre
- 93 The ingenious Gratitude
- 94 The Florentine Shoemaker
- 95 The Soldier through gratitude
- 96 The Merchant ennobled
- 97 The Rivalries between Demosthenes and Æschines
- 98 How one should die
- 99 One insensible to pain (The Insensible) through Virtue
- 100 The portable Inscription
- Proper Names
- Index to the Notes I Italian Words
- Index to the Notes II English, French and German Words
- Index to Rules
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
73 - The Female who knows to keep silence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- A Chapter supplementary to the Grammar
- EXERCISES
- 1 Judgment of Phocion
- 2 The merciful Lion
- 3 The Mother victim of her Love
- 4 The Conflagration overcome by Maternal Affection
- 5 The Mother inseparable from the Daughter
- 6 At what Price a Son may be saved
- 7 The Son of Metellus to liberate his Father offers his own life
- 8 The Deserter through filial Love
- 9 The loving Daughter
- 10 The Fast through filial Love
- 11 The beneficent Surprise
- 12 Eudocia Empress
- 13 The Swimmer
- 14 The Heroic Substitution
- 15 The loving Division of the Goods
- 16 The Admiral Chabot
- 17 The little Baker of Nérac
- 18 The feigned Condemnation
- 19 Doctor Friend
- 20 The Constant Friend
- 21 The Tribune Cœdicius
- 22 The taking of Calais
- 23 The love of Country recompensed
- 24 The Passions sacrificed to the public Weal
- 25 The Heroine of Leucate
- 26 The Frenchwoman of Spartan heart
- 27 The Victim of his Country
- 28 The Piedmontese Hero
- 29 The generous Grenadier
- 30 The Imperturbables
- 31 Mecænas
- 32 The sincere Courtiers
- 33 Song-chi Chinese Heroine
- 34 Philip the Macedonian
- 35 Ardisheer Babegan, Sophi of Persia
- 36 Titus Flavius Vespasian
- 37 Titus Vespasian
- 38 Trajan
- 39 Antoninus Pius
- 40 Marcus Aurelius
- 41 Publius Ælius Pertinax
- 42 Marcus Claudias Tacitus
- 43 Valentinian II
- 44 Peter the Great
- 45 Disinterestedness of Charles XII
- 46 Love of the Subjects preferred to the paternal
- 47 Frederick II
- 48 Humanity of the Emperor Francis I
- 49 Visit of Maria Theresa
- 50 Joseph II
- 51 The pretended Mediator
- 52 The efficacious Recommendation
- 53 Unfaithfulness condoned and prevented
- 54 Papinianus and Julius Grecinus
- 55 Claudius II
- 56 The Beggar made a Mandarin
- 57 Justice preferred to Life
- 58 Ottoman Justice
- 59 The most upright General
- 60 The Quaker without Imitators
- 61 The Prince more liberal than his Almoner
- 62 The Judge making restitution (restorer)
- 63 Where Virtue may go to burrow
- 64 A Gentleman without Posterity
- 65 Probity preferred to Love
- 66 The Vinedresser who will not buy cheap
- 67 The alms-giving Poor-Woman, and the Poor-man who will not be so
- 68 The honourable Porter, and the Woman who prays (makes prayer) against her own interest
- 69 The Captain who voluntarily degrades himself
- 70 The Father who saves the Slayer of his Son
- 71 Virtue has triumphed over Sex
- 72 Artifice to oblige a Thief to restitution
- 73 The Female who knows to keep silence
- 74 Totila King of the Goths
- 75 The heroic Philanthropy
- 76 The noble and compassionate Butcher
- 77 The Sultan Saladin
- 78 Admirable accord between Doctrine and Practice
- 79 The beneficent Miser
- 80 Xenocrates
- 81 The merited Recompense diverted to another
- 82 The Mistake of a Cipher
- 83 The Amendment
- 84 The good Porter of Milan
- 85 The Heir through Compassion
- 86 The Viscount de Turenne
- 87 The generous Creditor
- 88 Boileau and Catherine II
- 89 The noble Recompense
- 90 The Captain of Algiers
- 91 Mercy remunerated
- 92 Claude Favre
- 93 The ingenious Gratitude
- 94 The Florentine Shoemaker
- 95 The Soldier through gratitude
- 96 The Merchant ennobled
- 97 The Rivalries between Demosthenes and Æschines
- 98 How one should die
- 99 One insensible to pain (The Insensible) through Virtue
- 100 The portable Inscription
- Proper Names
- Index to the Notes I Italian Words
- Index to the Notes II English, French and German Words
- Index to Rules
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Exercises in Idiomatic ItalianThrough Literal Translation from the English, pp. 140 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1867