She was allowed to be in the study while he had his lessons, and in her various readings got very deep into the examples in the Latin Grammar.
Stelling so many questions about the Roman Empire, and whether there really ever was a man who said, in Latin, "I would not buy it for a farthing or a rotten nut," or whether that had only been turned into Latin, that Tom had actually come to a dim understanding of the fact that there had once been people upon the earth who were so fortunate as to know Latin without learning it through the medium of the Eton Grammar.
But it was worth purchasing, even at the heavy price of the Latin Grammar, the happiness of seeing the bright light in the parlor at home, as the gig passed noiselessly over the snow-covered bridge; the happiness of passing from the cold air to the warmth and the kisses and the smiles of that familiar hearth, where the pattern of the rug and the grate and the fire-irons were "first ideas" that it was no more possible to criticise than the solidity and extension of matter.
"What in hell has
Latin to do with it?" he demanded before his mirror that night.
From the social arrangements imposed by Venice on the colony's ethnically mixed population, where a very small
Latin minority dominated the far more numerous Greeks, to the everyday business of trade carried on by
Latins, Greeks, and Jews, the history of Venetian Crete defines in a way few other fields can what was politically possible and culturally conceivable in the fourteenth-century European Mediterranean.
Meanwhile, many banks were also profiting from helping wealthy
Latins spirit capital flight dollars overseas into American bank accounts.
Driven by ambition, economies, artistic curiosity, and a desire to pack as much dancing into their lives as they can, they're ballet's new
Latins, and like Russians in the 1970s, they've seized the international spotlight.
The
Latins are powerful technicians, trained to move cleanly.
Struggling with cost-cutting imposed by insurance companies and health maintenance organizations, hospitals target well-to-do
Latins, who often pay cash for services, with slick marketing campaigns and high-tech outreach programs.
* Many
Latins with complex medical conditions seek out facilities with advanced diagnostic or treatment technologies that are not readily available in their home countries.
Cutting-edge mobile phone services Like satellite tracking of a cellular phone user or watching movie previews and soccer highlights on the very small screen has already begun to pop up in some parts of
Latin America.
Now we have a new phenomenon in ballet--a profusion of exciting
Latin dancers.