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When that daughter was born to him, Cæsar was simply wild from delight, and received her with extra humanum gaudium. Previously the senate had committed the womb of Poppæa to the gods with the utmost solemnity. A votive offering was made at Antium, where the delivery took place; splendid games were celebrated, and besides a temple was erected to the two Fortunes.

Oh yes, we will talk again. I consent to it. Let us therefore make peace, and give me your hand. Here it is, Monsieur le Curé. Ah, Veronica. Errare humanum est. Yes, I know, Monsieur Fortin often repeated it. That means to say that the devil is sly, and the flesh is weak. It is something like that. So then I trust to your honesty. You can do so without fear. To your discretion.

Yes, to-day, it is not charity which covers the multitude of sins, it is the cloak of religion, and yet 'tis not the fault of creeds, 'tis errare est humanum. Ah me! we gay nineteenth century butterflies are a favoured generation; we are so respectable you know; we give the Church her innings, and that ancient firm of Bacchus and Comus have their innings also.

For the other tenth well, if Burns had been strictly temperate, "the world had wanted many an idle song," and we should not have celebrated his centenary so enthusiastically. The poet expresses the joy and sorrow of the race whose silent emotions become vocal in him, and it is necessary that he should have a full and varied life, from which "nihil humanum" is alien. Mr.

Louis clapped his hands together in sign of admiration. "Monsieur d'Artagnan," he said, "you are positively the cleverest man in my kingdom." "The identical thing M. de Richelieu thought, and M. de Mazarin said, sire." "And now, it remains for us to see if your sagacity is at fault." "Oh! sire, a man may be mistaken; humanum est errare," said the musketeer, philosophically.

He then proceeded to patch his tags together with the help of his Gradus, producing an incongruous and feeble result of eight elegiac lines, the minimum quantity for his form, and finishing up with two highly moral lines extra, making ten in all, which he cribbed entire from one of his books, beginning "O genus humanum," and which he himself must have used a dozen times before, whenever an unfortunate or wicked hero, of whatever nation or language under the sun, was the subject.

Thus, in England, it exists chiefly in a latent condition, finding little or no expression unless pressure is exercised from the centre, while in America the enforced promulgation of the Humanum Genus encyclical has been one of the serious blunders of the present pontificate as regards that country.

The instinct of self-preservation, the longing to relieve a loved one, and above all, the maternal passion for such it is gradually softened the hard race of man tum genus humanum primum mollescere coepit.

After the twelfth century the discussion was conducted on a gradually broadening economic basis appeals to the Fathers, canonists, philosophers, the jus divinum, the jus naturale, the jus humanum, became the order of the day. Before we proceed to discuss the new philosophical or scholastic treatment of usury which was inaugurated for all practical purposes by Aquinas, we must briefly refer to the ecclesiastical legislation on the subject.

But there were certain breeds of heretics who did not mind drinking too much. Also the best could slip sometimes, for, as he had learned from the old Castilian priest who taught him Latin, humanum est, etc. This, then, was the summary of his reflections. That to save the situation, within three months or so he must be united in holy matrimony with Lysbeth van Hout.