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Maria montesque polliceri cæpit, Minari interdum ferro, nisi obnoxia foret. A woman, master. Among all those of Senatorial rank—and they were very many—who were participants of the intended treason, one alone was absent from the assemblage of the Order on that eventful night.
"My father has been called away on important business to Walton Heath. Cannot I act as his substitute?" "Do you know anything about the law?" "Do I know anything about the law!" echoed Sam, amazed. "Do I know ! Why, I was reading my Widgery on Nisi Prius Evidence when you came in." "Oh, were you?" said Billie interested. "Do you always read on the floor."
The work was finished with the fourth week, to General Ford's satisfaction, and Bart was then set to try his teeth on Buller's "Nisi Prius," made up of the most condensed of all possible abstracts of intricate cases, stated in the fewest possible words, and those of old legal significance, the whole case often not occupying more than four or five lines.
After walking for half an hour you come to a bit of high ground, where you have often stood before, and, resting your gun against a wall, you gaze at the view beyond. "Quocunque adspicias, nihil est nisi gramen et aer." Nothing particularly striking, perhaps, is visible to the eye, yet to my mind there is a charm about it which the pen is quite unable to describe.
'Non audet, nisi qua didicit, dare quod medicorum est; Promittunt medici tractant fabrilia fabri," As he repeated these lines with much emphasis, the doctor permitted his patient's arm to drop from his hand, that he might aid the cadence with a flourish of his own. "There," said he to the spectators, "is what none of you understand no, by Saint Luke, nor the Constable himself."
Limits permitting, it would be pleasant to refer at length to various other marked graces of Punch, such, for example, as his care for true Art, by exposing to merited contempt the abortions of statuary, painting, and architecture that come under his accurate eye, his concern for good letters, exhibited in fantastic parodies of affectations, mannerisms, absurdities of plot, and vices of style in modern poets and novelists, his "nil nisi bonum," and, where there is no "bonum," his silent "nil," of the dead, whom when living he pursued with unrelenting raillery, his cool, eclectic judgments, freedom from extremes, and other manifestations of clear-headedness and refined sentiment, glimmering and shooting through his rollicking drollery, quick wit, and quiet humor.
"Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret Quem nisi mendosum et mendacem?" Thus we see how all the judgments that are founded upon external appearances, are marvellously uncertain and doubtful; and that there is no so certain testimony as every one is to himself.
Self-made statesmen, scions of fallen dynasties, ex-premiers, and ministers, who formerly swayed the fortunes of the world, whom one might have imagined capaces imperii nisi imperassent, were now the unnoticed inmates of unpretending hotels.
"It is related of the Ancient Egyptians that they ever had a corpse among the guests at their feasts." "Were their cooks so bad?" said Alison. "To remind them that all men are mortal. Now you see why we keep Harry." "I wonder if he looked as happy when he was alive," said Alison, surveying his wooden face. "De mortuis nil nisi bonum," Geoffrey laughed. "No jests about the dead, Alison.
Clinton," replied the other, with a shrug, "de mortuis nil nisi bonum; but as touching beauty, in what sense do you ask my opinion?" "Whether now, for instance, would your learned taste prefer Miss Cavanagh or Miss Dora M'Mahon? and give your reasons." "Taste, Mr. Hycy, is never, or at least seldom, guided by reason; the question, however, is a fair one."
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