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His present politics, being loco-foco, are in Ellisland considered contra bonos mores.
Spirit. c. xiv. p. 14: "Si dicerent tibi aliquid quod sit contra fidem, et contra Scripturam Sacram, aut contra bonos mores, ahhorreas earum visionem et judicia, tanquam stultas dementias, et earum raptus, sicut rabiamenta" which word the Saint translates by "rabiamientos." Psalm liv. 7: "Quis dabit mihi pennas sicut columbae?" Job iv. 17: "Numquid homo Dei comparatione justificabitur?"
"Know ye not, my children, that the king sent the wretch neck and crop out of the palace for having bewitched the Earl of Warwick and his grace the Lord Clarence, so that they turned unnaturally against their own kinsman, his highness? But 'Manus malorum suos bonos breaket, that is to say, the fists of wicked men only whack their own bones. Ye have all heard tell of Friar Bungey, my children?"
"Know ye not, my children, that the king sent the wretch neck and crop out of the palace for having bewitched the Earl of Warwick and his grace the Lord Clarence, so that they turned unnaturally against their own kinsman, his highness? But 'Manus malorum suos bonos breaket, that is to say, the fists of wicked men only whack their own bones. Ye have all heard tell of Friar Bungey, my children?"
The officers, to the surprise of the other guests, rose to take their leave, and some were inclined to insist on their stopping. "It is altogether contra bonos mores, gentlemen, to leave us at this hour with only half a cargo on board," exclaimed Mr Peter Vashan, one of the sheriffs of the city; "we shall suspect you of being no true men. Sit down and help us to finish another dozen of claret."
He may sternly affirm that he sits there to interpret the law as he finds it, not to make it accord with his personal notions of right and justice. Or he may declare that it could never have been the Legislature's intention to do wrong, and so, shielded by the useful phrase contra bonos mores, pronounce that illegal which he chooses to consider inexpedient.
"To the true house-friend, and beloved Irelandish youth. "'Sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. "WACKERBART, Professor at the Grand-Ducal Kalbsbraten-Pumpernickelisch Gymnasium." Another writes, "'Wander on roses and forget me not. "AMALIA v. "GEB. v. with a flourish, and the picture mayhap of a rose.
In the early history of insurance, objection was continually made that it was of the nature of a wager, and consequently not only unlawful, but contra bonos mores; yet the courts of law in England from the first drew a distinction between a wager and a contract founded on the principle of indemnity, which principle runs through and underlies the whole subject of insurance.
This was the race of the Regatta, and excited much interest. Various were the opinions as to the result, and to use a phrase of the turf, "bets were even;" not that any serious amounts of money were risked, for that would have been "contra bonos mores;" but several suppers and sundry boxes of segars hung on the balance.
The keepers are my bonos socios, as the host says in the Devil of Edmonton , and would as soon shoot a child as a dog of mine. But there are scamps and traps, and I am ashamed to say how reluctantly I left the poor little terrier to its fate. She came home to me, however, about an hour and a half after we were home, to my great delectation. Our visitors dined with us. July 21.
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