United States or Brunei ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But when downright business occurred, exchequer bills to be sold, meetings to be arranged, negotiations confided, difficulties to be explained, here and there by possibility a jest or two might be scattered, a witty allusion thrown in, or a sentiment interwoven; but for the main body of the case, it neither could receive any ornamental treatment, nor if, by any effort of ingenuity, it had, could it look otherwise than silly and unreasonable: "Ornari les a ipsa negat, contenta doceri."
'I am quite of that opinion, replied the Fairy; 'and, as you seem by this time to have had pretty plain proofs of the folly of wishing, I will take away my dangerous gift from you; for I hope you will be wiser now than you have ever been before. So saying, the Fairy gave her a stroke with her wand, and Wishie directly found herself in her own little bed, by the side of her sister Contenta, who was sound asleep.
'Well, to be sure! exclaimed she to her herself, as she drew near the rose-bush, 'What a bone Contenta has got there! She has been breakfasting with our master, that's very clear. I'm sure nobody ever gives me such great bones!
Quoi quisque fere studio devinctus adhaeret Aut quibus i rebus multum sumus ante morati Atque in quo ratione fuit contenta magis mens, In somnis cadem plerumque videmur obire. LUCR., iv. 959. What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.
Tertium dant Mosi locum tanquam prolocutori Dei Misso specialiter, ad instruendos Iudaeos. Quartum volant esse Mahomet, sanctum, et verum Dei nuncium ad seipsos missum, cum lege diuina in dicto libro plene contenta.
I had lived by Providence before, when for a long time I had no money at all, and I had always found the Lord a good provider. I made no doubt, therefore, that He who sent the ravens to feed Elijah, and who clothes the lilies, would find some means to sustain me with needful food and raiment; and I had learned by experience the truth of that saying, Natura paucis contenta i.e.
DOÑA MATILDE. Entonces ... ¿dónde dejaré la carta para papá?... y muy contenta que estoy con ella ... ¡oh! me ha salido muy tierna y muy respetuosa ... mucho más tierna que la de Clari en la ópera ... aquí la pondré sobre la mesa ... ahora vamos ... no; me falta todavía que implorar al cielo, y rogar también por mi padre. BRUNO. ¡Si la tocará Dios en el corazón!
I wish Contenta would let me have a bit of it ; and so saying, she threw herself down beside her sister, pretending to look very tired and hungry, and whined out, 'Do, Contenta, give me a bit! I am so hungry! 'Willingly, replied Contenta, who was very good-natured; 'but have you had no breakfast, Wishie, this morning?
And in a minute Wishie fell asleep too, and never awoke till the sun was shining in at the windows. She told all her strange adventures to her father and mother and Contenta; upon which they all held up their paws, and declared they had never heard anything so wonderful.
Style may be good in itself, but inappropriate to the subject. For example, style which may be excellently adapted to a theological essay, may be but ill-suited for a dialogue in a novel. There are subjects of which the poet says Ornari res ipsa vetat, contenta doceri. The matter declines to be adorned, and is content with being clearly stated.
Word Of The Day