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The women rulers of the Bugis have invariably shown themselves as astute, capable and warlike as the men, the princess who ruled in Boni during the middle of the last century having defeated three powerful military expeditions which the Dutch sent against her. Everything considered, the Bugis are perhaps the most interesting race in the entire archipelago.
She was kind, and seemed pleased to see us; said I should henceforward be her son, and that nothing but her fear of the Boni Rajah prevented her receiving me in the best way in her power; but pointing to the roof and to the floor, she repeated, 'I have nothing. I presented her with such articles as I thought would be acceptable to her; and, in return, she gave me a sarong.
A broad stream of light came out through the open doorway of the farm-house, and with it a great clatter and buzz of talk that increased tenfold as we entered, and a cry of "Bòni fèsto!" came from the whole company at once.
It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Omnes boni nobilitati semper favemus, was the saying of a wise and good man. It is indeed one sign of a liberal and benevolent mind to incline to it with some sort of partial propensity.
Boni judicis est ampliare justitiam, that is, to make open and liberal justice. But in criminal matters this parity of reason and these analogies ever have been and ever ought to be shunned. Whatever is incident to a court of judicature is necessary to the House of Commons as judging in elections.
The devotion which was, in its origin, an ideal tendency grown conscious and expressed in fancy may thus become a mechanical force vitiating that ideal. For this reason it is very important that the first objects to fix the soul's admiration should be really admirable, for otherwise their accidental blemishes will corrupt the mind to which they appear sub specie boni.
Gregory VII sanctioned the formation of an Order, but Stephen and his first followers called themselves simply boni homines.
The other explanation, viz. that it means simply to put money at interest, makes the last clause wholly superfluous. Servatur. Is secured, sc. abstinence from usury, or the non-existence of usury, which is the essential idea of the preceding clause. Ideo vetitum esset, sc. ignoti nulla cupido! Cf. 19: boni mores, vs. bonae leges. Guen.
But the charms and popular specifics of Gilbert are often introduced with a sort of apology, implying his slight belief in their efficacy. "Carmine. "Tres boni fratres per viam unam ibant, et obviavit eis noster dominus jesus christus et dixit eis, tres boni fratres quo itis, etc." Emperica
Boni judicis, says the old maxim, ampliare jurisdictionem. To compare small things with great, a committee of this kind has been found of the highest value in institutions where there are various departments requiring large expenditure.
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