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For as long as every man holdeth this Right, of doing any thing he liketh; so long are all men in the condition of Warre. This is that Law of the Gospell; "Whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them." And that Law of all men, "Quod tibi feiri non vis, alteri ne feceris." What it is to lay down a Right
The proper inscription for the most part of mankind, I began to think, is the cynical jeer, cras tibi. That, if anything, will stop the mouth of a carper; since it both admits the worst and carries the war triumphantly into the enemy's camp. Greyfriars is a place of many associations.
Mac-Donald of Barrisdale, one of the very last Highland gentlemen who carried on the plundering system to any great extent, was a scholar and a well-bred gentleman. He engraved on his broad- swords the well-known lines Hae tibi erunt artes pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos.
When the solemn moment of the Crucifixion is reached on Good Friday, when the officiating priests advance in turn to adoration while the Cross itself lifts its voice in "Reproaches" to the multitude with Palestrina's music, who does not feel the dramatic directness of the representation? Popule meus, quid feci tibi? aut in quo contristavi te? responde mihi.
Johnson, who reminds us also of a saying of Aristotle himself, that as students we ought first to examine and understand what has been written by the ancients, and then cast our eyes round upon the world. And Johnson prefaces both quotations by another: Tibi res antiquae laudis et artis ingredior, sanctos ausus recludere fontes.
"Quid tibi incommodi?" says the Pope, axing him what ailed him. "Habesne id quod Anglicè vocamus a looking-glass," says his Riv'rence.
I woke about two o'clock; dressed, sipped my chocolate, and was on the point of arranging my hat to the best advantage, when I received the following note: "My Dear Pelham, "Me tibi commendo. I heard this morning, at your hotel, that you were here; my heart was a house of joy at the intelligence.
I saw one die, who, at his last gasp, complained of nothing so much as that destiny was about to cut the thread of a chronicle he was then compiling, when he was gone no farther than the fifteenth or sixteenth of our kings: "Illud in his rebus non addunt: nec tibi earum jam desiderium rerum super insidet una." We are to discharge ourselves from these vulgar and hurtful humours.
For Macdonald was essentially a scholar; he did not merely mug up notes by German commentators an hour before the lesson. For him the classics lived; and he made his form realise this. To do Aristophanes with him was far better than any music hall. Horace he hated. One day when they were doing Donec gratus eram tibi, he burst out with wrath: "Horrible little cad he was! Can't you see him?
And they may well have been much influenced on this side by a man who had long before written that 'the original and supreme power resides in the whole of a free people, and is incapable of being surrendered, insomuch that an incorrigible tyrant may always be 'deposed by that people as by a superior authority. For even Fergus the First, he narrates, 'had no right' other than the nation's choice, and when Sir William Wallace was yet a boy, he was taught by his Scottish tutor to repeat continually the rude inspiring rhyme, 'Dico tibi verum Libertas optima rerum. These views as to the rights of man, and of Scottish men, may well have fanned, or even kindled, the strong feeling of independence in secular matters and as a citizen, which burned in the breast of Knox.
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