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Wise and exquisite policy of my foes, 'Frustra Cassium amovisti, si gliscere et vigere Brutorum emulos passurus es.* But I have no time to lose: farewell, my friend; God bless you; you are saved from these storms; and even intolerance, which prevented the exercise of your genius, preserves you now from the danger of having applied that genius to the welfare of your country.
Their virtues are blended in their children, and diffuse through the whole family a perpetual spirit of benevolence, complacency, and satisfaction. No. 129. Vertentem sese frustra sectabere canthum, Cum rota posterior curras & in axe secundo. PERS. Sat. v. ver. 71. Thou, like the hindmost chariot-wheels, art curst Still to be near, but ne'er to be the first.
This attack continued with little intermission for more than a week, and, during this period, he suffered great pain, attended with want of sleep and temporary delirium, during which, he frequently exclaimed, Ne frustra vixisse videor. On the 24th he recovered from this painful situation, and became perfectly tranquil. His strength, however, was gone, and he saw that he had not many hours to live.
He turned it over and looked closely at the inside: cut into the soft gold he saw the one word 'Frustra, that he himself had carved into it with his penknife the night before the memorable wedding. 'Where did you get this? he asked the child. 'Mrs. 'Alliss give it me, the little one answered, beginning to cry. Arthur ran lightly down the steps again, and knocked at the door of Mrs.
The sixth was the knight of the stormes, whose helmet was round moulded like the Moone, and all his armour like waues, whereon the shine of the Moone sleightly siluerd, perfectly represented Mooneshine in the water, his bases were the banks or shores that bounded in the streames. The spoke was this, Frustra picus, as much to say, as fruitles seruice.
The Wife grows wise by the Discourses of the Husband, and the Husband good-humour'd by the Conversations of the Wife. Their Virtues are blended in their Children, and diffuse through the whole Family a perpetual Spirit of Benevolence, Complacency, and Satisfaction. No. 129. Saturday, July 28, 1711. Addison. 'Vertentem sese frustra sectabere canthum, Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.
Ah, not frustra pius was Virgil, as you say, Horace, in your melancholy song. In him, we fancy, there was a happier mood than your melancholy patience.
If you choose a worse climate, you may come to London; but if you choose a better and a warmer, you may go to Nice en Provence, where Sir William Stanhope is gone to pass his winter, who, I am sure, will be extremely glad of your company there. I go to the Bath next Saturday. 'Utinam de frustra'. God bless you! BATH, September 19, 1767.
The revelation was indeed so novel and unexpected, that when the slight deformation of the planet's shape was first detected by him, he did not venture to announce it in plain terms but veiled it, according to the prevailing fashion of the time, under a Latin anagram. His celebrated sentence "Haec immatura a me jam frustra leguntur." forms, by transposing the letters, the more definite statement,
Non libet enim mihi deplorare vitam, quod multi et ei docti saepe fecerunt, neque me vixisse paenitet, quoniam ita vixi, ut non frustra me natum existimem, et ex vita ita discedo tamquam ex hospitio, non tamquam e domo; commorandi enim natura divorsorium nobis, non habitandi dedit.
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