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Nous avons un bon pere et une bonne mere means, we have a good father and a good mother. Puer is boy in Latin, and Mutter is mother in German. I will teach Mildred many languages when I come home. TO MRS. SOPHIA C. HOPKINS Tuscumbia, Ala. Dec. 11th, 1888. My dear Mrs. Hopkins: I have just fed my dear little pigeon. My brother Simpson gave it to me last Sunday. I named it Annie, for my teacher.

"Vivit, et est vitae nescius ipse suae." Ovid. We have now reached the second phase of life; infancy, strictly so-called, is over; for the words infans and puer are not synonymous. The latter includes the former, which means literally "one who cannot speak;" thus Valerius speaks of puerum infantem. When children begin to talk they cry less.

Say that over again, my good sir," quoth Sir Richard, who had thus arrived, as we have seen, at the second count of the indictment. "I say, good sir, whence dost thou hear all these pretty stories?" "My son Jack, Sir Richard, my son Jack, ingenui vultus puer." "But not, it seems, ingenui pudoris. Tell thee what, Mr.

or the carol: Congaudeat turba fadelium! Natus est rex, Salvator omnium In Bethlehem. and we joined in; and at last all went together to see Ann to her home. Next evening there were more costly gifts, but albeit Puer natus was still to be heard in the streets, we no longer were moved to join in.

The external world seemed much farther away to him than it does to us. The second effect of his misfortune was to render him malicious. He was malicious, in fact, because he was savage; he was savage because he was ugly. There was logic in his nature, as there is in ours. His strength, so extraordinarily developed, was a cause of still greater malevolence: "Malus puer robustus," says Hobbes.

"Saville, a game at ecarte." As the lion in the Tower looked at the lapdog, so in all the compassion of contempt looked Saville on Lord Falconer. "Infelix puer!" muttered Godolphin; "Infelix puer atque, impar congressus Achilli." "With all my heart," said Saville at last. "Yet, no we've been talking of death such topics waken a man's conscience, Falconer, I never play for less than " "Ponies!

The western cave is the earlier, but it is the earlier not because it was a shrine of Iuppiter puer, but because the ancient road which came through the forum turned up to it, because it is the least symmetrical of the two caves, and because the temple faced it, and did not face the forum.

Across the high-road a stile faced us, and a little church, with an acre framed in elms and set about with trimmed yews. She led the way to the low and whitewashed porch, and pushed open the iron-studded door. As I followed, the name of Van der Knoope repeated itself on many mural tablets. Almost at the end of the south aisle she paused and lifted a finger and pointed. I read Heu miserande puer!

"He is welcome, Montagu, to our poor house," said the archbishop, rising, and complacently glancing at his palace, splendidly gleaming through the trellis-work. "'Puer ingenui vultus. Thou art acquainted, doubtless, young sir, with the Humaner Letters?"

"Well, but you might have got all the grub at the same shop." "Ay; but I've procured a more refined article. Guess what it is?" The two boys didn't guess, and Eric said, to enlighten them, "Will you have a whiff, Monty?" "A whiff! Oh! I see you've been wasting your tin on cigars alias, rolled cabbage-leaves. Oh fumose puer!" "Well, will you have one?"