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"How do you manage it, you silly fellow?" said Madame Latournelle, laughing. "Ah, madame!" said Butscha, "what you call my hump is the socket of my wings." "So that is the explanation of your seal, is it?" cried the notary. Butscha's seal was a star, and under it the words "Fulgens, sequar," "Shining One, I follow thee," the motto of the house of Chastillonest.
I have found it remarked, that, in this important sentence, "Go before, I'll follow," we read a translation of, I prae, sequar. I have been told, that when Caliban, after a pleasing dream, says, "I cry'd to sleep again," the authour imitates Anacreon, who had, like every other man, the same wish on the same occasion.
"May gang to the deevil," interposed Major M'Toddy abeat in malam crucem, as a body may say We've no time for havers, i prae, sequar, as a body may say. What's the number of her room?" "No. 14," said the Captain, and the three gentlemen passed on. "Her room!" said Mr Clam, "another lady! Waiter!" "Yes sir."
I have noted one great advantage they have had in the Plotting of their Tragedies, that is, they are always grounded upon some known History, according to that of HORACE, Ex noto fictum carm n sequar: and in that, they have so imitated the Ancients, that they have surpassed them. "Atque ita mentitur, sic veris falso remiscet, Primo ne medium, media ne discrepet imum.
Porro saith, Zanchius in cultum ipsum excessu ut, peccatur; si quid illi quem Christus instituit, jam addas, aut ab aliis additum sequar is; ut si sacramentis a Christo institutis, alia addas sacramenta; si sacrificiis, alia sacrificia; si ceremoniis cujusvis sacramenti, alios addas ritus, qui merito omnes superstitionis nomine appellantur.
And now, resume thine office, friend Ranald, in respect I am well-breathed; or, to be more plain, I PRAE, SEQUAR, as we used to say at Mareschal-College."
I have found it remarked, that, in this important sentence, Go before, I'll follow, we read a translation of, I prae, sequar. I have been told, that when Caliban, after a pleasing dream, says, I cry'd to sleep again, the authour imitates Anacreon, who had, like every other man, the same wish on the same occasion.
What I have advised hath been as much on your account as on my own: but since you are determined to go on, I am as much determined to follow. I prae sequar te." They now travelled some miles without speaking to each other, during which suspense of discourse Jones often sighed, and Benjamin groaned as bitterly, though from a very different reason.
Like Henry More, he would have wished to take for a motto 'that generous resolution of Marcus Cicero, rationem, quo ea me cunque ducet, sequar. 'Doctrines, he said, 'are vehemently to be suspected which decline trial.
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