14 Quotations with Ancients.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. T ...

- 2. Ambrose Bierce: ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believe ...

- 3. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...

- 4. Ambrose Bierce: HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

- 5. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
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- 6. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...

- 7. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...

- 8. Ambrose Bierce: WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted charact ...

- 9. Unknown: Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting dr ...

- 10. Ralph Waldo Emerson: All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

- 11. William Penn: Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they kn ...

- 12. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

- 13. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

- 14. Ambrose Bierce: Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for gettin ...

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