"Utile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... very judicious letter which will be found printed in this present publication (p. 7.) He had acknowledged the receipt of the work in a previous letter, in which he says: "I have read it over with great pleasure and satisfaction. You doe so mingle "utile dulci" {the useful with the sweet} that the book cannot but take with all sorts of readers: and it is pity it should be suppressed; which, though you make a countenance of, I cannot persuade myself you really intend to do:" and then proceeds to criticise a few pedantic ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey
... scriptorem, maxime Lolli, Dum tu declamas Romae, Praeneste relegi: Qui quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, Plenius ac melius Chrysippo ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18) - Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love • John Dryden
... flatteur," disait-il a Matthew Arnold. "Cela est vrai, je suis un flatteur. Il est utile de l'etre. Chacun aime la flatterie, et, si vous approchez les rois, il faut l'empiler avec une truelle...." "Mon secret, c'est de ne jamais contredire et de ne ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... judged by its definite service to humanity. "The value and rights of truth are founded on its utility," which is "the unique measure of man's judgements," one thinker asserts; another declares that "the useful circumscribes everything," l'utile circonscrit tout; another lays down that "to be virtuous is to be useful; to be vicious is to be useless or harmful; that is the sum of morality." Helvetius, anticipating Bentham, works out the theory that utility is the only ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... le garde avec moi; il me sera trs utile. D'ailleurs je m'aperois qu'il a du got pour le commerce. ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... he too, bourgeois though he were, and in so far the best of testimony, knew it when he found Luca's blue and white to be "molto utile per la state." We should say that of a white umbrella or suit of flannels; why of earthenware or an adroit strambotto? That marks the cleft, the incurable gulf of difference between a people like the Tuscans with art in their marrow, ...
— Earthwork Out Of Tuscany • Maurice Hewlett
... lui; Et ello e bello e radiante cum grande splendore. * * * * * Laudato si, me signore per frate Vento Et per aere et nubilo et sereno et omne tempo * * * * * Laudato, si, mi signore, per sor acqua La quale e multo utile et humele et pretiosa et casta; Laudato si, mi signore, per frate focu Per lo quale ennallumini la nocte Et ello e bello et jocundo e robustioso ...
— Renaissance Fancies and Studies - Being a Sequel to Euphorion • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
... defuit ante viris. 12 Rem populus recipit: multam subiere nocentes: Vindicibus laudi publica cura fuit. Multa data est ex parte mihi, magnoque favore Victores ludos instituere novos. 16 Parte locant Clivum, qui tunc erat ardua rupes: Utile ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... frugis: Celsi praetereunt austera Poemata Rhamnes. Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, Lectorem ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... catalogue est l'inventaire en le veritable palladium d'une bibliotheque. L'impression des catalogues est toujours une chose utile, sinon indispensable.... La publicite est, en outre, le frein des abus, des negligences, et des malversations, l'aiguillon du zele, et la source de toute amelioration."—L. A. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 67, February 8, 1851 • Various |
