United States or Austria ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Bacon, knowing all that he did, thinking all that he thought, was content to be the echo and the instrument of the cleverest, the foolishest, the vainest, the most pitiably unmanly of English kings. Commons' Journals, March 17, April 27; iii. 560, 594-6. Commons' Journals, iii. 578. In his copy of the Novum Organum, received ex dono auctoris, Coke wrote the same words. "Auctori consilium.
Pleydell took snuff, and eyed him with a glance equally shrewd and sarcastic "I'll teach him," he said aside to Mannering, "the value of the old admonition, No accesseris in consilium antequam voceris." "But perhaps I intrude, gentlemen?" said Glossin, who could not fail to observe the coldness of his reception. "Is this an open meeting?" "For my part," said Mr.
It is the difference between a written oration and one bursting from the unpremeditated exertions of the speaker, which have always something the air of enthusiasm and inspiration. I would not have young authors imitate my carelessness, however; consilium non currum eape. Read a few pages of Will D'Avenant, who was fond of having it supposed that Shakespeare intrigued with his mother.
Wickedness contrives torments against itself: "Malum consilium consultori pessimum." Apud Aul. as the wasp stings and hurts another, but most of all itself, for it there loses its sting and its use for ever, "Vitasque in vulnere ponunt." Cantharides have somewhere about them, by a contrariety of nature, a counterpoison against their poison.
Vain were all the attempts of the courtiers to persuade and mollify this inflexible patriot, he solemnly protested against their proceedings, and hastily withdrew; so that the mareschal was obliged to dissolve the assembly, and recourse was had to a senatus consilium, to concert proper measures to be taken in the present conjuncture.
In later years writing to his friend Marliano, he observed: De bello autem si consilium amici vis, bella gerant bellatores. Philosophis inhæreat lectionis et contemplationis studium.
Gillespie has sent me an excellent consilium medicum, all solid practical experimental knowledge. Heberden and Dr. I have just begun to take vinegar of squills. The powder hurt my stomach so much, that it could not be continued. 'Return Sir Alexander Dick my sincere thanks for his kind letter; and bring with you the rhubarb which he so tenderly offers me. 'I hope dear Mrs.
All story is full of such examples, and every man is able to produce so many to himself, or out of his own practice or observation, that I sometimes wonder to see men of understanding give themselves the trouble of sorting these pieces, considering that irresolution appears to me to be the most common and manifest vice of our nature witness the famous verse of the player Publius: "Malum consilium est, quod mutari non potest."
Indeed, Sulla and Caesar boasted more of their good luck than of their prudence. The hero of the Aeneid proceeds only under the direction of a God. It was very great praise offered to the Emperors if one said that they were victorious both through their troops and through their gods whom they lent to their generals: 'Te copias, te consilium et tuos praebente Divos, said Horace.
De Dominis fled to Brussels, and there wrote his Consilium Reditus, giving his reasons for rejoining the Roman Church, and expecting daily his promised reward a cardinal's hat and a rich bishopric. His hopes were doomed to be disappointed.
Word Of The Day