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The boys were all paraded; prizes were administered; each lad being in a new suit of clothes and magnificent dandies, I promise you, some of us were. Oh, the chubby cheeks, clean collars, glossy new raiment, beaming faces, glorious in youth fit tueri coelum bright with truth, and mirth, and honor!
We have become reluctant to grant these, our highest and last honors, further. We would gladly hold them yet back from the little remnant of that immortal band. Serus in coelum redeas. Illustrious as are your merits, yet far, O very far distant be the day, when any inscription shall bear your name, or any tongue pronounce its eulogy!
This word we borrow also, for we use æther in Latin as well as aer; though Pacuvius thus expresses it, This, of which I speak, In Latin's coelum, æther call'd in Greek. As though he were not a Greek into whose mouth he puts this sentence; but he is speaking in Latin, though we listen as if he were speaking Greek; for, as he says elsewhere, His speech discovers him a Grecian born.
To crush out the rebellion without meddling with the institutions of the South was at first the main spring of the war; fiat justitia, ruat coelum, is now the voice of the whole people; and the very fact that the nation has so earnestly taken hold of the work, so sternly determined to sacrifice everything but its existence to the demolition of this bloody god, is of itself an evidence of the purity of our civilization.
'No, said he, gravely. 'Even at the cost of my secret becoming known, I should have the man arrested. 'Well, said Graham, with a shrug, 'you are more of a hero than I am, bishop. The cost of exposing the wretch seems too great. 'Graham! Graham! I must do what is right at all hazards. 'Fiat justitia ruat coelum! muttered the doctor, 'there is a morsel of dictionary Latin for you.
At last he spoke. You will be bound over to come up for judgment at the end of the war if called upon. You will deposit a cautionnement of twenty francs. And now, gentlemen, we are at your service." "Fiat justitia ruat coelum," whispered A to me, as the prisoner, deeply impressed, opened a leather purse and counted out four greasy five-franc notes. It is a misdemeanour according to Belgian law.
Thomas Carew and Edmund Waller were poets of the same stamp graceful and easy, but shallow in feeling. Carew, however, showed a nicer sense of form than most of the fantastic school. Some of his love songs are written with delicate art. There are noble lines in his elegy on Donne and in one passage of his masque Coelum Britannicum.
Things that from a distance seem preposterous and even revolting will often assume a very different guise when seen in their native environment and judged by their inevitable conditions. It is not always true that "coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt" that is, if we allow ourselves to translate "animum" in its Ciceronian sense of "opinion."
Finn, for her Prime Minister. If he could in no other way put an end to such evils as these, he must put an end to his own political life. Ruat coelum, fiat justitia. Now "justitia" to him was not compatible with feminine interference in his own special work.
The latter took a pinch of snuff from a tortoise-shell box, and flicked away a few wandering grains which settled upon the front of his coat. "Yes," he went on, I saw Langworthy off to Russia. Then I saw your son start for Africa. He's an interprising lad, and sure to do well there. coelum non animam mutant, as we used to say at Clongowes.
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