"Tene" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by all intending to take part in public life. Cato indeed had well said to his son, "Orator est, Marce fili, vir bonus dicendi peritus,"[290] thus putting the ethical stamp of the man in the first place; and his "rem tene, verba sequentur" is a valuable bit of advice for all learners and teachers of literature. But more and more the end of all education had come to be the art of oratory, and particularly the art as exercised in the courts of law, where ...
— Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler
... such vengeance shall cease. That man, nor woman, shall never more Be wasted by water, as is before, But for sin that grieveth sore, Therefore this vengeance was. Where clouds in the welkin That each bow shall be seen, In token that my wrath or tene[51] Should never this wroken be. The string is turned toward you, And toward me bent is the bow, That such weather shall never show, And this do I grant to thee. My blessing now I give thee here, To thee Noah, my servant dear; For ...
— Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays, with an Introduction • Anonymous
... knyfe must be bryght, fayr{e}, & clene, and yne hand{es} fair{e} wasch{e}, it wold e well{e} be sene. hold alwey thy knyfe sur{e}, y self not to tene, and passe not ij. fyngurs & a thombe o thy knyfe ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... strength of thought." Nevertheless, the main object of the prose writer, and still more of the orator, should be to state his facts or to prove his case. Cato laid down the very sound principle "rem tene, verba sequentur," and Quintilian held that "no speaker, when important interests are involved, should be very solicitous about his words." It is true that this principle is one that has been more often honoured in the breach than the ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring |
