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A minute later Septimus Marvin was shaking him by the hand with a vague and uncertain but kindly grasp. "Sep came running to tell me that you were home again," he said, struggling out of his overcoat. "Yes yes. Home again to the old place. And little changed, I can see. Little changed, my boy. Tempora mutantur, eh? and we mutamur in illis. But you are the same." "Of course. Why should I change?
For himself, after the case was decided, he proposed to go on living in the regiment, just to prove for he bore no malice that times had changed, nosque mutamur in illis if we knew what that meant. Infant had curled his legs out of reach, so I was quite free to return thanks yet once more to Allah for the diversity of His creatures in His adorable world.
Yet the facts will change their utterances in spite of us; and we, too, change with age and ages in spite of ourselves, so as to see the facts around us as perhaps even more changed than they actually are. It has been said, "Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis." The passage would have been no less true if it had stood, "Nos mutamur et tempora mutantur in nobis."
The spirit of Pangloss came upon me again as I thought of all I had seen that day, there was nothing like it in my day. King's College keeps pace with the times. "Tempora mutantur!" I mentally exclaimed; and added, not without a pleasant scepticism, as I gazed once more on the pippin-faced master, "I wonder whether nos mutamur in illis?"
Go on; give us Sic vos non vobis, and follow it up with Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis, or any other little House-of-Commons delicacy; only don't say et nos, as some of the senators, who cannot, alas! Be flogged for it, often do." Harry apologised, and they now approached the English officers' quarters, the Egyptian flag marking that of the General commanding the expedition.
Allusion has been already made to seeming inconsistencies in the Doctor's sentiments. There is truth in the adage, "tempora mutantur et nos mutamur cum illis," "times change, and we change with them." And indeed changes are allowable in matters of a circumstantial nature which do not affect moral principle. Moral principle, however, is in its nature immutable.
It's a sore revelation to make to an amorous maiden; but destiny will be triumphant: Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis." The poor girl suddenly laid down the work on which she had been engaged, her face became the color of ashes, and the reply she was about to make died upon her lips.
Fifty years ago, what with the wool from his sheep and the grain that was stored in these barns year by year, the Cotswold farmer was a rich man. Alas! Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis! One can picture the harvest home, annually held in the barn, in old days so cheery, but now often nothing more than a form.
Nor will bread, I warrant, fail me! If Machiavelli, who in this very letter to Vettori quoted Dante, had remembered these words, they ought to have fallen like drops of molten lead upon his soul. But such was the debasement of the century that probably he would have only shrugged his shoulders and sighed, 'Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. See familiar letter, June 10, 1514.
The remembrance made him gloomy and silent. "Tempora mutantur," thought he, "nos et mutamur in illis." "Why, how glum you are," said Wildney, patting him on the head. "O no!" said Eric, shaking off unpleasant memories. "Look," he continued, pointing out of the window to change the subject, "what a glorious night it is! Nothing but stars, stars, stars."
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