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That a lady of fortune, family, and education, whose youth had been passed in the most refined circles of private life, should present herself to the people as a public lecturer, would naturally excite surprise any where, and the nil admirari of the old world itself, would hardly be sustained before such a spectacle; but in America, where women are guarded by a seven- fold shield of habitual insignificance, it caused an effect that can hardly be described.
"Yes, sir, directly, directly." "That's the way to talk to these fellows," said Mick with a self-satisfied air, and perfectly repaid by the admiring gaze of his companions. "It's pretty Miss Harriet," said Mick looking up at the ceiling with a careless nil admirari glance. "Oh! it is beautiful," said Harriet. "You never were here before; it's the only place.
'No, said he, 'certainly not nothing will ever surprise me again. Very many men nowadays, besides the archdeacon, adopt or affect to adopt the nil admirari doctrine; but nevertheless, to judge from their appearance, they are just as subject to sudden emotions as their grandfathers and grandmothers were before them. 'What do you think Mr Arabin has done? 'Mr Arabin!
It is the τετράγωνος of the Peripatetic, and has the “nil admirari” of the Stoic,— Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Lady Brassey evidently belongs not to the nil admirari school, but enjoys keenly and heartily everything that is fresh and new a bright bit of colour or a picturesque detail. It is this which makes her book so enjoyable.
He lived from hand to mouth, never quite growing up. It seemed, indeed, that he never could grow up in the accepted sense of the term, for his motto was the reverse of nil admirari, and he found himself in a state of perpetual astonishment at the mystery of things.
Yet as we have nobody like him in the whole body of our literature, we can welcome even another edition portable, complete, and cheap of his letters to his son with as much enthusiasm as is compatible with the graces, and with the maxim, so dear to his lordship's heart, Nil admirari!
The pose of superiority to emotion was not uncommonly held in those times to be the mark of a sage Horace's "nil admirari". The writers of the Gospels do not conceal that Jesus had feelings, and expressed them. Above all, we find him again and again "moved with compassion." We saw the leper approach him, with eyes fixed on the face of Jesus.
We are not one of those, so common in these days, who have adopted the nil admirari for their motto. Genius, well or ill guided, is still genius; and if we load with shame the former life of Smith and his present abominable religious impositions, still we are bound to do justice to that conquering spirit which can form such vast ideas, and work such a multitude to his will.
"No," said he, "certainly not nothing will ever surprise me again." Very many men now-a-days besides the archdeacon adopt or affect to adopt the nil admirari doctrine; but nevertheless, to judge from their appearance, they are just as subject to sudden emotions as their grandfathers and grandmothers were before them. "What do you think Mr. Arabin has done?" "Mr. Arabin!
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