Given below, is a list of meanings of ten Latin phrases. Also furnished, are ten quotations in which the ten Latin phrases have been used. Now, match the quotations with their English meanings. PL. write your answers on a peace of paper and compare with the answers at the following URL: Click.
1. Presupposing, conceiving before seeing the facts.
2. Something for something (exchange of one thing for another).
3. Going on forever
4. By the first instance, (or on the face of it)
5. With suitable changes.
6. I came, I saw, I conquered.
7. Face to face, compared with, in relation to.
8. Common in practice, but not recognised/supported by law.
9. Man is a wolf to man.
10. to the value (expressed often, as % of value).
781. This is a valuable anecdote, for it proves, what might have been concluded 'a priori', that Bunyan was a man of too much genius to be a fanatic. No two qualities are more contrary than genius and fanaticism. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 'The Literary Remains'.)
782. MAM. But when you see th' effects of the Great Medicine,
Of which one part projected on a hundred
Of Mercury, or Venus, or the moon,
Shall turn it to as many of the sun;
Nay, to a thousand, so ad infinitum:
You will believe me. (Ben Jonson in his 'The Alchemist').
783. "... Nicaragua slapped an
import duty of 48 per cent. ad valorem on all bottled goods last
month. The President took a bottle of Cincinnati hair tonic by mistake for tobasco sauce, and he's getting even. Barrelled goods is free. ... (O. Henry in his story 'The Trimmed Lamp')
784. Your colonel, as I am informed, is an excellent man--for a Presbyterian; but you will remember your duty to God, the
Church of England, and the--' (this breach ought to have been supplied,
according to the rubric, with the word KING; but as, unfortunately, that
word conveyed a double and embarrassing sense, one meaning de facto and the other de jure, the knight filled up the blank otherwise)--'the Church
of England, and all constituted authorities.' (Sir Walter Scott in his 'Waverley or the It is sixty years hence"
785. I do not know, but suppose that the microscopical structure of the luminous organs in the most different insects is nearly the same; and I should attribute to inheritance from a common progenitor, the similarity of the tissues, which under similar conditions, allowed them to vary in the same manner, and thus, through Natural Selection for the same general purpose,
to arrive at the same result. Mutatis mutandis, I should apply the same doctrine to the electric organs of fishes; but here I have to make, in my
own mind, the violent assumption that some ancient fish was slightly electrical without having any special organs for the purpose. (Charles Darwin in his 'Letters, volume 7')
786. I, who dreamed not when I came here
To find the antidote of fear,
Now hear thee say in Roman key,
Paean! Veni, vidi, vici.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson in his poem 'Titmouse').
787. "... neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus (Sigmond Freud, in his 'Civilization and Its Discontents'.)
788. This judgment seems more complicated, but has certainly gained in precision. Even now, however, it falls short of complete precision, since similarity is not prima facie measurable, and it would require much discussion to decide what we mean by greater or less similarity. To this process of the pursuit of precision there is strictly no limit. (Bertrand Russel, in his 'Analysis of Mind')
789. It was the policy of Mr. K- to ask no questions in his dealings with the trade. 'They bring the body, and we pay the price,' he used to say, dwelling on the alliteration - 'QUID PRO QUO.' And, again, and somewhat profanely, 'Ask no questions,' he would tell his assistants. (Robert Louis Stevenson, in his 'the Body Snatcher').
790. But now--you must have your coach--Vis-a-vis, and three powder'd Footmen before your Chair--and in the summer a pair of white cobs to draw you to Kensington Gardens--no recollection when you were content to ride double, behind the Butler, on a docked Coach-Horse?
