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Anthony of Miranella and other patrons of mine, I have very happily extricated myself. And here I am in the parlour of the "Bugle" at Yarmouth, by a Christian fire, having but lately come off the sea and writing this for the edification and confirmation of honest souls. What, then, of the question, Quid de quuerendo? Quantum? Qualiter? Ubi? Cur? Quid? Quando? Quomodo? Quum? Sive an non? Ah!
Beppo sent a stinging reproof in verse to Peppina by the new gardener, and the Little Genius read it to us, to show the poetic instinct of the discarded lover, and how well he had selected his rebuke from the store of popular verses known to gondoliers and fishermen of Venice: "No te fidar de l' albaro che piega, Ne de la dona quando la te giura.
We know that there is a legal presumption against men, quando se nimis purgitant; and if a charge of ambition is not refuted by an affected humility, certainly the character of fraud and perfidy is still less to be washed away by indications of meanness. Fraud and prevarication are servile vices.
The Egyptian sculptors were more happy in seizing the figure of animals than that of man. These lions of the Capitol are nobly peaceful, and their physiognomy is the true image of tranquillity in strength. "A guisa di leon, quando si posa." "In the manner of the lion, when he reposes."
‘Excuse me,’ said I, ‘but does Noah ever appear as Janus?’ ‘He—he—he!’ said the Rabbi, ‘he only appeared as Janus once—una vez quando estuvo borracho; which means—’ ‘I understand,’ said I; ‘when he was . . . ’ and I drew the side of my right hand sharply across my left wrist. ‘Are you one of our people?’ said the Rabbi. ‘No,’ said I, ‘I am one of the Goyim; but I am only half enlightened.
She was, however, so far from being ashamed of her profession of courtesan that in one of her poems she affirms she has been taught by Apollo other arts besides those he is usually regarded as teaching: "Cosi dolce e gustevole divento, Quando mi trovo con persona in letto Da cui amata e gradita mi sento."
Et de hac concessione sicut quando ligiam fidelitatem domino regi & domino Henrico filio suo fecerint, ita eos inde assecurauerint. Similiter hæredes regis Scotiæ & baronum & hominum suorum homagium & ligiantiam facient hæredibus domini regis contra omnem hominem.
"Thou art mistaken, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "according to the maxim quando caput dolet, etc." "I don't understand any language but my own," said Sancho.
At the time of my being in Rome, said Luther, there died a Cardinal very rich, and left behind him great store of money; shortly before his death he made his will, and laid it in a chest where the money was. After his death the chest was opened, and therein, by the money, was found lying a bull, written on parchment, with these words: Dum potui, rapui; rapiatis, quando potestis.
In Lima the tertulias, or chit-chat parties, and even the gaiety of the public promenade, had almost disappeared, and quando se acabara esto? 'When will this end? was constantly ejaculated. "In Santiago every scene was reversed. Mirth and gaiety presided at paseos, confidence and frankness at the daily tertulias.
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