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Certainly the Stoics bestowed too much cost upon death, and by their great preparations, made it appear more fearful. Better saith he, qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae. It is as natural to die, as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful, as the other.
Some of us who are old fail at last because we are old. It would be well that each of us should say to himself, "Solve senescentem mature sanus equum, ne Peccet ad extremum ridendus." But many young fail also, because they endeavour to tell stories when they have none to tell. And this comes from idleness rather than from innate incapacity.
I will go to Sicily: "Extremum hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem." October 25, 1859. My resolve had been taken and my preparations made; it only remained for me to notify my housekeeper. I must acknowledge it was a long time before I could make up my mind to tell her I was going away. I feared her remonstrances, her railleries, her objurgations, her tears.
SED TAMEN etc.: 'but for all that it was inevitable that there should be something with the nature of an end'. So 69 in quo est aliquid extremum, 43 aliquid pulchrum. Tusc. 1, 31 arbores seret diligens agricola, quarum aspiciet bacam ipse numquam TERRAEQUE FRUCTIBUS: here = cereals, roots, vegetables and small fruits.
Thrale's house 'in order to be constantly near London. Fitzmaurice's Shelburne, iii. 242. Mr. Croker quotes the following from the Rose MSS.: 'Oct. 6, Die Dominica, 1782. Non laetus accubui, cibum modicè sumpsi, ne intemperantiâ ad extremum peccaretur. Si recte memini, in mentem venerunt epulae in exequiis Hadoni celebratae. Streathamiam quando revisam? 'Mr. Metcalfe is much with Dr.
Windham, two days earlier, he had given a copy of the New Testament, saying: 'Extremum hoc munus morientis habeto. Windham's Diary, p. 28. Gardiner see ante, i. 242. John Desmoulins was the son of Mrs. Johnson mentions him in a letter to Mrs. Thrale in 1778. 'Young Desmoulins is taken in an under-something of Drury Lane; he knows not, I believe, his own denomination. Piozzi Letters, ii. 25.
to pronounce supremum for extremum; at which Johnson's critical ear instantly took offence, and discoursing vehemently on the unmetrical effect of such a lapse, he shewed himself as full as ever of the spirit of the grammarian. Having no near relations, it had been for some time Johnson's intention to make a liberal provision for his faithful servant, Mr.
But if so, what is the extremum which Cicero advises Quintus to accept? Prof. Tyrrell, besides, points out that the quæstors could hardly refuse to pay anything for provincial expenses. It is a question between cistophori and denarii. I quite agree with your letter. Sampsiceramus is getting up a disturbance. We have everything to fear. He is preparing a despotism and no mistake about it.
Omnia certo tramite vadunt, Primusque dies dedit extremum. Non illa deo vertisse licet Quae nexa suis currunt causis. It cuique ratus, prece non ulla Mobilis, ordo. Here we have in all its naked repulsiveness the Stoic theory of predestination.
Johnson expressed himself much satisfied with the application. On another day after this, when talking on the subject of prayer, Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal, 'Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano, and so on to the end of the tenth satire; but in running it quickly over, he happened, in the line, 'Qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat,
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