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"Saville, a game at ecarte." As the lion in the Tower looked at the lapdog, so in all the compassion of contempt looked Saville on Lord Falconer. "Infelix puer!" muttered Godolphin; "Infelix puer atque, impar congressus Achilli." "With all my heart," said Saville at last. "Yet, no we've been talking of death such topics waken a man's conscience, Falconer, I never play for less than " "Ponies!
The administration speaks with pride of its forbearing, that is, parleying, policy. The people, the country, requires action. Congressus impar Achilli: Achilles, the people, and Congressus the forbearing administration. Music, parades, serenades, receptions, &c., &c., only no genuine military organization. They do it differently on the other side of the Potomac. There the leaders are in earnest.
"Saville, a game at ecarte." As the lion in the Tower looked at the lapdog, so in all the compassion of contempt looked Saville on Lord Falconer. "Infelix puer!" muttered Godolphin; "Infelix puer atque, impar congressus Achilli." "With all my heart," said Saville at last. "Yet, no we've been talking of death such topics waken a man's conscience, Falconer, I never play for less than " "Ponies!
Impar congressus! like Michelet's Charles the Bold, "il avait trop voulu, des choses infinies." The arts were indifferent to her, and she was insensible to the simplicity of true greatness. She idolized a Zuboff, but Kosciuszko was immured at St. Petersburg till the day of her death, and she never even learned his precise name.
If it is a sort of indirect attack upon an oblique demurrer to Butler's constructive-aggressive orthodoxy in psychology and religion, one is bound to say with all politeness, first, that it is a case of impar congressus, and secondly, that the adventurous knight does not give himself a fair chance.
The science and skill in navigation which made Nelson intrust to him the last soundings, and place under his command the fire-ships which were to lead the way on the following morning, the gallantry with which the captain of the Amazon throw himself, impar congressus, under the fearful fire of the Trekroner battery, to redeem the failure threatened by the grounding of the ships of the line, have all been told with a skilful pen, and forms a picture of a great sailor's last hours, which is cherished with equal pride in the affections of his family and the annals of his country.
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