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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test, you may pronounce it true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment, you may conclude it to have been a Punn. In short, one may say of a Punn, as the Countryman described his Nightingale, that it is vox et praeterea nihil, a Sound, and nothing but a Sound.
Next to Bible and Prayer-book comes old Moore's rubric in the farmhouse that rubric which declares the 'vox stellarum. There are old folk who still regret the amendments in the modern issue, and would have back again the table which laid down when the influence of the constellations was concentrated in each particular limb and portion of the body.
The Jew's harp has three different tones; the bass tones of the first octave bear some resemblance to those of the flute and clarionet; those of the middle and high, to the vox humana of some organs; lastly, the harmonical sounds are exactly like those of the harmonica.
All its old-fashioned surroundings appear in keeping with my feelings: the carved galleries, the quaint, up-standing pulpit with its massive sounding board, the monumental tablets on the walls, the open-raftered roof; and, when, sitting in the high box-pew, where I first saw her, the organ gives forth its tremulous swell before some piercingly pitched note from the vox humana stop, cries out like a soul in agony like mine I can almost believe I see her again sitting opposite me, her sweet madonna face bent down over her Bible, or upturned in adoration, as I then noticed it!
To wag the tongue with dexterous acceptability, there is for human worth and faculty, in our England of the Nineteenth Century, that one method of emergence and no other. Silence, you would say, means annihilation for the Englishman of the Nineteenth Century. The worth that has not spoken itself, is not; or is potentially only, and as if it were not. Vox is the God of this Universe.
The English clap their hands and throw their caps in the air when they hear anything published favourable to us, but, it must be confessed, they are now taking very dismal views of affairs. 'Vox populi vox Dei." The rejoicing in Paris was scarcely less enthusiastic or apparently less sincere than in London.
I thought your husband's " "Oh, yes, all that helped. He was splendid. But we shouldn't have done it without the keeper's daughter." "Vox populi, vox Dei; they're both so hard to understand." "I've been longing for you," she said, seeming to awake suddenly from her half-dreamy half-playful account of the life she had been living.
The rumour had spread by this time that John was 'a scholar, and was 'writing bits of books on paper, and though the vox populi of Helpston thought not the better of John for this acquirement, but rather condemned him as a practically useless creature, the parish-clerk, being teacher also of the Sunday-school, and, as such, representative of learning in the village, held it to be his duty to take notice of and patronize the young man.
Smoky as the air was, the three men saw that a very strong feeling was aroused against them, and that none of their own side was at hand to back them up. And the language of the English though they could not understand it was clearly that of bitter condemnation. The least resolute of them became depressed by this, being doubtless a Radical who had been taught that Vox populi is Vox Dei.
This clause effectually confounds all the assertions of the anti-federalists, respecting the representatives not being sufficiently acquainted with the different local interests of their constituents; for a representative, qualified as the constitution directs, must be a greater numbskull than a Vox Populi or an Agrippa, not to have a knowledge of the different concerns of the Confederation.
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