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For that matter, does not the aggregate of enjoyment of a score of cannibals outweigh the suffering of the one man whom they have sacrificed to their appetite, or the delirious excitement with which a brutal crowd witnesses a lynching overbalance the pain of their solitary victim? Yet our souls revolt against such things. We cry, ruat caelum, fiat justitia! Justice is prior to all expediency!
At last he spoke. You will be bound over to come up for judgment at the end of the war if called upon. You will deposit a cautionnement of twenty francs. And now, gentlemen, we are at your service." "Fiat justitia ruat coelum," whispered A to me, as the prisoner, deeply impressed, opened a leather purse and counted out four greasy five-franc notes. It is a misdemeanour according to Belgian law.
If my good resolves go this way, like snaw aff a dyke the Lord help me! March 4. Last night I had a letter from Lockhart, who, speaking of Malachi, says, "The Ministers are sore beyond imagination at present; and some of them, I hear, have felt this new whip on the raw to some purpose." I conclude he means Canning is offended. I can't help it, as I said before fiat justitia, ruat coelum.
The Law!" He wheeled slowly, and stepped forward, until he was directly before the emblazoned arms of Alleghenia which hung upon his wall. "Justitia Lex Integritas!" he said. "Many a time, when the way seemed darkest, I've read those words over to myself, and found hope in them.
Sir John Newport stated that the Irish nation took a virtuous interest in this noble cause. He ridiculed the idea, that the trade and manufactures of the country would suffer by the measure in contemplation; but, even if they should suffer, he would oppose it. "Fiat justitia, ruat coelum." Upon a division, there appeared for the second reading one hundred, and against it forty-two.
They must set an honourable example, as just and upright citizens and fearless magistrates, who hold that old saying in honour 'Fiat justitia et pereat mundus; which means, 'Let justice be done, though life and fortune perish. But the punishment of the wheel was, he confessed, altogether too severe for the poor youth; and therefore he counselled that they should hang him, as Otto had hung his brother."
The Parson would argue; I've had enough of his arguings; and the old man is the last whom my own arguings could deceive. Fiat justitia." "Don't, sir, don't; you are breaking my heart 'tis a shame, sir," sobbed the poor faithful rebel. "Well, Dick, then I must see it done myself; and you shall go on first to Sorrento, and hire some villa to suit us.
Paul, especially in that of the epistle to the Romans, Erasmus had failed to conceive the idea of justitia correctly, had paid too little attention to original sin: he might profit by reading Augustine.
In France, the word had the sense of what Spelman calls justitia tutelaris. Ballivus occurs frequently in the Regiam Majestatem, in the sense of a judge. Spelman.
To crush out the rebellion without meddling with the institutions of the South was at first the main spring of the war; fiat justitia, ruat coelum, is now the voice of the whole people; and the very fact that the nation has so earnestly taken hold of the work, so sternly determined to sacrifice everything but its existence to the demolition of this bloody god, is of itself an evidence of the purity of our civilization.
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