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The second time that the Prince of Santa Croce saw me at the Duchess of Fiano's, he asked me 'ex abrupta' why I did not visit Cardinal Bernis. "I think of paying my suit to him to-morrow," said I. "Do so, for I have never heard his eminence speak of anyone with as much consideration as he speaks of yourself." "He has been very kind to me, and I shall always be grateful to him."
You shall see them come out with fire and fury sparkling in their eyes: "Rabie jecur incendente, feruntur, Praecipites; ut saxa jugis abrupta, quibus mons Subtrahitur, clivoque latus pendente recedit," There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgment as anger.
Sciant. quibus moris illicita mirari, posse etiam sub malis principibus magnos viros esse: obsequiumque ac modestiam, si industria ac vigor adsint, eo laudis excedere, quo plerique per abrupta, sed in nullum reipublicae usum, ambitiosa morte inclaruerunt. XLIII. Finis vitae ejus nobis luctuosus, amicis tristis, extraneis etiam ignotisque non sine cura fuit.
The second time that the Prince of Santa Croce saw me at the Duchess of Fiano's, he asked me 'ex abrupta' why I did not visit Cardinal Bernis. "I think of paying my suit to him to-morrow," said I. "Do so, for I have never heard his eminence speak of anyone with as much consideration as he speaks of yourself." "He has been very kind to me, and I shall always be grateful to him."
T. is animadverting upon the conduct of certain stoics and republicans, who obtruded their opinions upon those in power, and coveted the glory of martyrdom. Eo excedere. Reach the same height of distinction. Eo Old dat. cf. eo inopiae 28, note. Excedere, lit. come out to, arrive at. Cf. Val. Max. 5, 6, 4: ad summum imperii fastigium excessit. Per abrupta. "Through abrupt and dangerous paths." Ky.
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