By Anthony Bowen
ISBN-10: 0521737621
ISBN-13: 9780521737623
Whereas Orator of the college of Cambridge, Anthony Bowen introduced 100 and twenty-five Latin speeches on the Senate condominium in compliment of quite a few distinct humans at the get together in their receiving Honorary levels. Fifty-two are provided right here, with dealing with translations. The fifty-first Orator in an unbroken series going again to 1521, Mr Bowen's speeches adapt themselves admirably to the problem of talking even of recent phenomena within the language and cadences so far as attainable derived from antiquity; even though phrases resembling transistor (gen. transistoris, m.) might sometimes must be invented. the themes of the speeches comprise Nelson Mandela, Rowan Williams, Betty Boothroyd, Cleo Laine, Kiri Te Kanawa, Anthony Gormley, and a number of others together with many distinct overseas scientists.
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Professor Geertz has been contemplating both his own and others’ work for some time with so shrewd an eye that he has a most judicious understanding of the weaknesses as well as the strengths of his subject. He has wittily compared it with quantum mechanics and Italian opera: it is less extravagant than the former, he says, and more methodical than the latter. Such is his insight and such his oversight that he has now become the anthropologist of anthropology. I present to you C L I F F O R D G E E RT Z , Harold F.
Ad alia praeterea adductus genera Caligas cum Fragis composuit, Gemmam cum Ansere. semper autem coniugi cantus uocis nimirum fautor constantissimus uarios parabat et pulchros. tum consilium capit quo facultatem multis musicae cuiusuis generis ipsis gerendae daret: stabulis enim uillae renouatis Odeum aedificat suum aulasque diuersas quo ueniret qui uellet. hic, sicut liberis suis quibus aptissimum ingenium inest, ita aliis, praecipue iunioribus et tironibus, artem musicam scientiorum ope tradit.
Quo fit iure facinus iustum? itane effici potest ut ratione potius usi quam ui uiuamus inter nos? talia secum iamdudum reputans hic uir breui quidem sic fortasse respondeat, ingenio quo quid inter nos communicare possimus eo inhaerere rationem, adeoque praeualere posse meliorem ratiocinationem ut consensio fiat. sed uia longa reputandi et multiplex est, nec iam in omnibus partibus munita: sed si quis uult sequi, pro mansionibus ut ita dicam et deuersoriis libros inueniet, quorum duos praecipue, de consilio communiter agendi et de perpetua ratione sapientium conscriptos, qui legerit percurrat.
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