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All this part of the speech he had prepared, paragraph by paragraph: a defense of Catholicism, an apology pro fide, so intimately bound up with the history of Spain. He could now use impassioned outbursts and tremors of lyric enthusiasm, as if he were preaching a new crusade.

She looked up quickly: "I think it's much deeper than that." Ashurst felt again that wish to dominate. "You think so," he said; "but wanting the 'quid pro quo' is about the deepest thing in all of us! It's jolly hard to get to the bottom of it!" She wrinkled her brows in a puzzled frown. "I don't think I understand."

We have flown at a great rate during the day, and we must be more than half way across the Atlantic. We have passed over some twenty or thirty vessels of various kinds, and all seem to be delightfully astonished. Crossing the ocean in a balloon is not so difficult a feat after all. Omne ignotum pro magnifico. The latter could not be improved.

It was essential that something should be done, and one Manilius, a Tribune, a man of no repute himself, but whose name has descended to all posterity in the oration Pro Lege Manilia, proposed to the people that Pompey should have the command. Then Cicero first entered, as we may say, on political life.

His friend Elbridge Gerry had endeavored to dissuade him from risking his life in this perilous conflict, "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," replied Warren, as if he had foreseen his fate a fate to be envied by those ambitious of an honorable fame. He was one of the first who fell in the glorious cause of his country, and his name has become consecrated in its history.

Critics do, and the actor seeks to affect the audience and the critics, and not the brother "pro." occasionally found in the auditorium. The merit of his work lies entirely in affecting an audience in the way intended by the author. The technical devices adopted have nothing to do with the question.

But Mike Costello, who was in the clerk's room, happened to catch a few words of what was being read. In he rushed, despatched a messenger for me, and began a single-handed filibuster. The Speaker pro tem called him to order.

He looked at her appealingly, and, though she pressed his hand sympathetically, she remained silent, weighing pro and con what she had heard. She shook her head slowly. "It's a bad case, and the thing is to convince them " "But, my God, Frona, I am innocent! I have not been a saint, perhaps, but my hands are clean from blood." "But remember, Gregory," she said, gently, "I am not to judge you.

But though his care for the lowly heroes proved the Mayor of Falaise a good republican, he showed himself in the popular estimation also a scholar, for he wound up with the old tag the grand old tag which inspired so many noble souls in the proudest of ancient empires and civilizations, and which will retain the power of moving and thrilling generations yet unborn in both the Western and the Eastern worlds: "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."

Kennedy waited for him, and as a great bell began to ring, said 'Pro caena, and conducted him towards the great hall while Malcolm felt much impelled to make himself known, but was conscious that he had not so comported himself towards his cousin at Paris as to deserve much favour from him. A high table was spread in the hall, with the usual appliances befitting princes and nobles.