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I find not that he was any way ensnared in the factions of the court, which were all his times strong, and in every man's note, the Howards and the Cecils of the one part, and my Lord of Essex, &c., on the other, for he held the staff of the treasury fast in his hand, which made them, once in a year, to be beholden to him; and the truth is, as he was a wise man and a stout, he had no reason to be a partaker, for he stood sure in blood and in grace, and was wholly intentive to the Queen's service; and such were his abilities, that she might have more cunning instruments, but none of a more strong judgment and confidence in his ways, which are symptoms of magnanimity, whereunto methinks this motto hath some kind of reference, AUT NUNQUAM TENTES, AUT PERFICE. As though he would have charactered, in a word, the genius of his house, or express somewhat of a higher inclination, than lay within his compass; that he was a courtier is apparent, for he stood always in her eye and in her favour.
"With 'Nunquam non paratus' for my motto," gaily returned the young man, "it were odd, indeed, if a mere scratch like this should prevent me from establishing my claim to it by following wherever my gallant captain leads." "Most courteously spoken, and little in the spirit of a man yet smarting under the infliction of a rifle wound, it must be confessed," remarked Lieutenant Leslie.
I remember the wolves howling outside his door in the big frost of Ten Fifty-Nine.... Essewelde hundredum nunquam geldum reddidit. "After all," the Grey Cat continued, "atmospere is life. It is the influences under which we live that count in the long run.
But in respect of all facts and principles which lie really at the basis of things, the Conservative party was, as a whole, dumb. I began to say to myself daily, "Semper ego auditor tantum? Nunquam ne reponam?" "Will no one wake up this unhappily lethargic mass, and by forcing the weapons of knowledge and reason into their hands provoke them and enable them to meet the enemy at the gate?"
Nunquam enim hoc convenisse naturae auctori parentique rerum omnium bonarum. Sed hanc utilitatem rei majoris alia quaedam incommoditas extrinsecus consecuta est, ut fieret caput tenuiter munitum et ictibus offensionibusque parvis fragile. Proinde morbi quoque et aegritudines partae sunt, dum salus paritur.
The Order, which has never been reformed Cartusia nunquam reformata Quia nunquam deformata and has uniformly followed the Rule approved by Pope Innocent XI., recognises three classes of brethren, the fathers, the conversi or lay brethren, and nuns.
'Tis true, I never make a promise nunquam facio votum, except in certain cases, or, in other words, Dionysius, exceptis excipiendis in which is the essence, as it were, of a proper vow. In the meantime he proceeded 'With regard to your prospects in the church, I can only say, in the first place, and I say it with much truth and sincerity that I'm badly off for a horse; that, however, is, as I said, inter nos sub sigillo.
"Never mind," said Erskine, laughingly, "we will revenge your death, my boy." "Besides, consider the nunquam non paratus, Johnstone," slily remarked Lieutenant Leslie. "What, again, Leslie?" energetically responded the young Scotsman. "Yet think not I hesitate, for I did but jest: make fast a rope round my loins, and I think I will answer for the result."
"Never mind," said Erskine, laughingly, "we will revenge your death, my boy." "Besides, consider the nunquam non paratus, Johnstone," slily remarked Lieutenant Leslie. "What, again, Leslie?" energetically responded the young Scotsman. "Yet think not I hesitate, for I did but jest: make fast a rope round my loins, and I think I will answer for the result."
Fallitur, egregio quisquis sub principe credit Servitium, nunquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub rege pio. On Johnson's character, as a political writer, we cannot dwell with pleasure, since we cannot speak of it with praise.
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