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For those who do not feel drawn towards the furtive corners of the town, there are many other opportunities of recreation. One of these was built by the city itself, and is called the Obecni Dum, which means Town House, I believe; anyway, when asking your way to it linger on the last word and pronounce it as if written "doom."
Every one that looks towards infinity does, as I have said, at first glance make some very large idea of that which he applies it to, let it be space or duration; and possibly he wearies his thoughts, by multiplying in his mind that first large idea: but yet by that he comes no nearer to the having a positive clear idea of what remains to make up a positive infinite, than the country fellow had of the water which was yet to come, and pass the channel of the river where he stood: 'Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille Labitur, et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.
Because we come from the country we don't propose to be put down suller amongst your cabbages and turnips! I want you to take us to some good rooms; I've paid in advance, dum you! and I'm goin' to stand for my rights." "Yes, sir," sez the man, "they're good rooms."
"No," he agreed and added, "and I'm dum sure I would like a day off now and then from preachin' and callin' on old maids, if I was you. But there's times I might be willin' for to let you take my work for yours." "Now see here, if you'll do my work for a few days, I'll do yours." "Well, what'd I have to do? I 'aint makin' any contract without specifications."
"Don't you know," he gasped, "that the ministers always send up their own sermons, pages upon pages of foolscap?" "Indeed?" murmured Raphael. "What, haven't you noticed all Jewish sermons are eloquent?". "They write that themselves?" "Of course; sometimes they put 'able, and sometimes 'learned, but, as a rule, they prefer to be 'eloquent. The run on that epithet is tremendous. Ta dee dum da.
For very often 'dum Romae disputatur Saguntum perit. Nevertheless, it would be well for you to decide; and, in any event, I do not think it good that you should all take your departure, but that, on the contrary, you should leave some of your number here.
To be "sech a duffer" as to return that money, when by means of a little strategy he might have kept it, made him feel both humiliated and indignant. A hundred and forty dollars; When would he have a chance to get such a windfall again? Pah! he was a fool to copy his identical thoughts: "a gol dum blithering idjit!"
Amen! and so be it: and so it will be, "Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet; imperiumque pater Romanus habebit." Novelty is not the only source of zeal.
Young ready to go on with us the next morning, and thus ended two of the brightest and best of all my Alaska days. From Taku River to Taylor Bay I never saw Alaska looking better than it did when we bade farewell to Sum Dum on August 22 and pushed on northward up the coast toward Taku.
Mihi quidem numquam persuaderi potuit animos dum in corporibus essent mortalibus vivere, cum excessissent ex eis emori; nec vero tum animum esse insipientem cum ex insipienti corpore evasisset, sed cum omni admixtione corporis liberatus purus et integer esse coepisset, tum esse sapientem.
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