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I maintained that Horace was wrong in placing happiness in Nil admirari, for that I thought admiration one of the most agreeable of all our feelings; and I regretted that I had lost much of my disposition to admire, which people generally do as they advance in life.
The social life of the New-World, with all its freshness and vigour, was moving before my eyes, like a panorama; and despite of my assumption of the nil admirari, I could not help wondering as I went. And one of my earliest surprises one that met me on the very threshold of Transatlantic existence was the discovery of my own utter uselessness.
As we advance in life, we crystallize into habit; and "NIL ADMIRARI" too often becomes our motto. It is well to encourage the admiration of great characters while the nature is plastic and open to impressions; for if the good are not admired as young men will have their heroes of some sort most probably the great bad may be taken by them for models. Hence it always rejoiced Dr.
In former times people were warned especially against taking the day or the moment too seriously: the nil admirari was recommended and the care of things eternal. Now there is but one kind of seriousness left in the modern mind, and it is limited to the news brought by the newspaper and the telegraph.
He talked motor, thought motor, and would have accepted I won't say with enthusiasm, for Alfred's motto was 'Nil admirari' but without hesitation, an offer to drive in the greatest race in the world.
Johnson has much of the nil admirari in smaller concerns. That survey of life which gave birth to his Vanity of Human Wishes early sobered his mind. Besides, so great a mind as his cannot be moved by inferior objects: an elephant does not run and skip like lesser animals. Mr.
Augustus had been at College during that bright brief period of the attempted apotheosis of the dirty-minded little Decadent whose stock in trade was a few Aubrey Beardsley drawings, a widow's-cruse-like bottle of Green Chartreuse, an Oscar Wilde book, some dubious blue china, some floppy ties, an assortment of second-hand epigrams, scent and scented tobacco, a nil admirari attitude and long weird hair.
I can see her studying in his provincial dialect until she becomes the Champollion of New England or Western or Southern barbarisms. Nothing surprises her. The highest breeding, you know, comes round to the Indian standard, to take everything coolly, nil admirari, if you happen to be learned and like the Roman phrase for the same thing.
Bon-Bon had by this time made up his mind to the nil admirari, and endeavoured to hand down the bottles in question. He was, however, conscious of a strange sound in the room like the wagging of a tail. Of this, although extremely indecent in his Majesty, the philosopher took no notice: simply kicking the dog, and requesting him to be quiet.
Nil admirari, prope res est una, Numici, Solaque, quae possit facere et servare beatum. "I have the honor to be, "Dear sir, "Your most obedient servant, "ANDREW LOFTUS. "St. PETERSBURG, September, 1792."
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