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'Tis a ground and principle in the law, said Triptolemus, that things do not ascend, but descend in it; and I make no doubt 'tis for this cause, that however true it is, that the child may be of the blood and seed of its parents that the parents, nevertheless, are not of the blood and seed of it; inasmuch as the parents are not begot by the child, but the child by the parents For so they write, Liberi sunt de sanguine patris & matris, sed pater & mater non sunt de sanguine liberorum.
The contest excited the keenest interest and was expected on all hands to be very close. Mr. Gladstone in his address to the electors of his Alma Mater confessed that in the earlier part of his public life he had been an advocate for the exclusive support of the national religion of the state, but it had been in vain; the time was against him.
"I sure will if he keeps his disguise on," she rumbled back. "The old horned toad is most as funny as Jackson." Really, I mean to say, they talked most amazingly. I was but too glad when they moved on and we could follow with the bags. "Calls her 'Maw' all right now," hissed Cousin Egbert in my ear, "but when that begoshed husband of hers is around the house she calls her 'Mater."
But it has its own share of historic associations, and although the big elm in the center of the campus was not planted until 1812 it has shaded many youths who in later years have by good deeds and great accomplishments endeared themselves to country and alma mater.
"Well, Mater, what the devil's the use of all this? You know.... By Jove! you ought to!" "Hold on, young feller! I don't understand. Your wages ain't large enough, you say? What do you mean? You was goin' to be married, wasn't you?" Mrs. Dunn plunged to the rescue, a forlorn hope, but desperate, and fighting to the end. "An outrage!" she blurted.
It is over! it is over! it is done! and it cannot be undone! But I never never will forgive that man for the part he played in the drama!" "Ave Maria, Mater Dolorosa! Was ever a mother so sorrowful as I? Holy saints and angels! how you shock me. Don't you know, wretched child, that you are committing deadly sin? Don't you know, alas! the holy church would refuse you its communion?" "Let it!
There was a light too, in the large window of the church, and that told me that the bigger girls were saying their night prayers. Creeping close to the convent wall I heard the girls' voices rising and falling, and then through the closed door of the church came the muffled sound of their evening hymn "Ave maris stella Dei Mater Alma "
'Look here, Harland' he said 'You are taking up all the conventions and traditions with which our poor old Alma Mater is encrusted, and sticking them over you like burrs. They'll cling, remember!
In the evening Signor Mardoni, who had arrived, and Madame Isola Bella, favored them with what they called sacred music; principally prayers from operas and a grand Stabat Mater. Lord Culloden invited Lothair into a farther saloon, where they might speak without disturbing the performers or the audience.
It may be mentioned that, once the run of a piece had begun, he was sufficiently volatile, and in private life he was almost excessively so a fact which had been noted at an early date by the keen-eyed authorities of his University, the discovery leading to his tearing himself away from Alma Mater by request with some suddenness.
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