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The Prince of Neuburg is sending his chancellor here 'cum mediis componendae pacis, in appearance good and reasonable, in reality deceptive . . . . If their Majesties, My Lords the States, and the princes of the Union, do not take an energetic resolution for making head against their designs, behold their League in full vigour and ours without soul.
He took the most interest, naturally, in the political career of his son, John Quincy Adams, whom he persuaded to avoid extremes, so that it is difficult to say with which political party he sympathized the most. In mediis tutissimus ibis. In tranquil serenity the ex-president pondered the past, and looked forward to the future.
If such people could retain their physical superiority and their courage, and combine them with our acquirements, they would surpass us in every way, Extat ut in mediis turris aprica casis. They would be, in comparison with us, as a giant to a dwarf, a mountain to a hill: Quantus Eryx, et quantus Athos, gaudetque nivali Vertice se attollens pater Apenninus ad auras.
The Prince of Neuburg is sending his chancellor here 'cum mediis componendae pacis, in appearance good and reasonable, in reality deceptive . . . . If their Majesties, My Lords the States, and the princes of the Union, do not take an energetic resolution for making head against their designs, behold their League in full vigour and ours without soul.
In fairness, I must also disclaim the flattering side of the portrait. I am no 'young Penthesilea mediis in millibus, but a plain country parson's daughter. "Once more I thank you, and that with a full heart. Immediately after the republication of her sisters' book she went to Miss Martineau's. I never shall forget last autumn!
In mediis tutissimus ibis, is not indeed an agreeable maxim to zealots and partisans and dialectical logicians, but it seems to be induced from the varied experiences of human life and the history of different ages and nations, and applies to all the mixed sciences, like government and political economy, as well as to church institutions.
The Prince of Neuburg is sending his chancellor here 'cum mediis componendae pacis, in appearance good and reasonable, in reality deceptive . . . . If their Majesties, My Lords the States, and the princes of the Union, do not take an energetic resolution for making head against their designs, behold their League in full vigour and ours without soul.
The Prince of Neuburg is sending his chancellor here 'cum mediis componendae pacis, in appearance good and reasonable, in reality deceptive . . . . If their Majesties, My Lords the States, and the princes of the Union, do not take an energetic resolution for making head against their designs, behold their League in full vigour and ours without soul.
Juvenal attributes this quality to oysters which, together with mussles, have in this respect become vulgarly proverbial. "Quis enim Venus ebria curat? Inguinis et capitis quæ sint discrimina nescit Grandia quæ mediis jam noctibus ostrea mordet." "For what cares the drunken dame? Wallich informs us that the ladies of his time had recourse, on such occasions, to the brains of the mustela piscis.
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