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It would be Penelope's web. Our education is too aesthetical. Unless a cultivated taste be overpowered by personal vanity, it is very difficult to complete any composition. I can most truly say that I have never done anything, speaking or writing, of which I could say, on the review, mihi plaudo. We have a great difference of opinion in the members of the Digest Commission.
Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca. That private ipse plaudo he may have in this business, which is a business of money; but the applause of no other human creature will he have for giving such an account as he admits this to be, irregular, uncertain, problematical, and of which no one can make either head or tail.
Upon one point, certainly, all agree constant distrust and depreciation of England; and, all things considered, I know no one spot on God's earth, where the hackneyed old line can be quoted so complacently by a Britisher: Sibilat populus, mihi plaudo. It would be unfair, not to give the American Press credit for great energy and ability in collecting intelligence from the different seats of war.
"Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca." And never did a man submit to infamy for anything but its true reward, money.
'Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca. 'I'm hissed in public; but in secret blest, I count my money and enjoy my chest. Horace, Sat. i. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 26.
The principle of 'At mihi plaudo ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca, is sufficient to make a wide interval between the opinions of the plaintiff and defendant in such cases. In short, to banish law and leave all plaintiffs to trust to the desire of reputation on the opposite side, would only be transporting the theory of the Whigs from the House of Commons to Westminster Hall."
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