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If that is so, join a party like that and live carefully. Good-bye. Your mother sends her love. Your affectionate father, John Amorbach. Bruno, satis admirari non possum quid agas vt tot pecunias consumas. Consumimus omnes de capitali. Habeo prouidere domui meae. No answer came back, and on 18 August John Amorbach wrote again.

Such a repast was formerly used by the noble youth, from whom this nation boasts its descent, and whose manners it still partly imitates, according to the word of the poet: "Heu! mensas consumimus, inquit Iulus."

Newman, we know what we are about and what to expect; "'Caedimur, et totidem plagis consumimus hostem. We give you a sharp cut and you return it.... But we at least have not professed to be composing an Eirenicon, when we treated you as foes." Like Archbishop Manning, Dr. Newman is reminded "of the sword wreathed in myrtle;" but Dr.

Machiavelli's writings, for example, were solid enough for the subject, yet were they easy enough to be controverted; and they who have done so, have left as great a facility of controverting theirs; there was never wanting in that kind of argument replies and replies upon replies, and as infinite a contexture of debates as our wrangling lawyers have extended in favour of long suits: "Caedimur et totidem plagis consumimus hostem;"

Or again, the lines with which he opens the fourth book, weakened as their effect is by what follows them, a tedious enumeration of events showing the power of destiny over human fortunes, are worthy of a great poet: Quid tam sollicitis vitam consumimus annis, Torquemurque metu caecaque cupidine rerum?