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These vile books I discovered by accident carefully hidden away in my son's bedroom. "Facilis descensus Averni!" You will easily imagine the humiliation of a parent who, having devoted his life to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the heathen, finds that his own son has fallen as low as the lowest savage.
It is all very well to talk about the facilis descensus Averni; but in all kinds of climbing, as Catalani said of singing, it is far more easy to get up than to come down. In the present instance I have no sympathy at least no pity for him who descends. He is that monstrum horrendum, an unprincipled man of genius.
We've grafted a dollar whenever we saw one that had a surplus look to it. But we never went after the simoleon in the toe of the sock under the loose brick in the corner of the kitchen hearth. There's an old saying you may have heard 'fussily decency averni' which means it's an easy slide from the street faker's dry goods box to a desk in Wall Street.
When once the feeling has come upon an editor or a critic that he may allow himself to be influenced by other considerations than the duty h owes to the public, all sense of critical or of editorial honesty falls from him at once. Facilis descensus Averni. In a very short time that editorial honesty becomes ridiculous to himself.
Facilis descensus Averni! To paint, one must at least know how to mix colours and handle a brush; to compose, one must be familiar with the meaning of strayed spiders' legs on curious parallel bars, and there are strange disconcerting rumours of "orchestration." But to produce literature you have simply to dip pen in ink or open your mouth and see what God will give you.
"Facilis ascensus Averni sed...;" without allowing the quotation to lead me into difficulties, I will explain that while it is usually easy to advance against an Asiatic, all retirements are matters of danger. While the village was being destroyed the enemy had been collecting.
I do not know that his theory is one more comfortable for his country than my own. Whether or no any backward step can now be taken whether these elections can again be put into the hands of men fit to exercise a choice in such a matter may well be doubted. Facilis descensus Averni. But the recovery of the downward steps is very difficult.
The intruder, however, had not reflected that he might be unable to secure his retreat by the way through which he had entered facilis descensus averni. To spring upward, especially after a heavy supper, was a laborious effort; and no doubt the villain had grown sufficiently uneasy in his mind before the early hour at which the farm-servant opened the door to liberate the fowls.
Facilis descensus Averni! The reverence for truth, and purity, and uprightness that had come to me in the atmosphere of home soon died. I recognised that those virtues belonged to a bygone period, but I was going to be up-to-date, in the forefront: nobody should surpass me!
"Lopez, I say!" continued he, calling louder. "Aca, aca!" "Lopez, these I perceive are gentlemen of rank, and we must send them out of the world a little more gracefully, do you hear?" "Yes, Captain," answered the other, with stoical composure. "Over the cliffs, Lopez. Facilis descensus Averni but you don't understand Latin, Lopez. Over the cliffs, do you hear? You understand that?"
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