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"Nay, first," says Beltane, sitting up, "are there many hurt?" "Aye, never fear for that, my blood-thirsty dove, they be all most completely dead save one, and he sore wounded, laus Deo, amen!" "Dead!" cried Beltane, shivering, "dead, say you?" "Aye, Sir Paladin, all sweetly asleep in Abraham's bosom. We three here accounted for some few betwixt us, the rest fell 'neath that great blade o' thine.
Likewise Paul saith in another place, Visum est Deo per stultitiam praedicationis salvos facere credentes; "It pleased God to save the believers through the foolishness of preaching." But, peradventure, you will say, "What, shall a preacher teach foolishness?"
I could not write before, having been so incessantly occupied with those confounded dances. Laus Deo, I have got rid of them at last, but only of what was most pressing. The rehearsal of the third act went off admirably. It was considered very superior to the second act. Raaff's last air, too, is still more regretted, but we must make a virtue of necessity.
"Aude, hospes, contemnere opes, et te quoque dignum Finge Deo . . . " For my part, I am lost in the admiration of it. I contemn the world when I think on it, and myself when I translate it.
By the Moslems, however, it is carried to a superstitious excess, and the En shallah ان شاء الله "Deo Volente," is continually in their mouths. They cannot even say, "Yes," to anything, although la, la, "no, no," is heard frequently enough. The aywah, ايوه, "yes," means rather "well done," than "yes."
He wanted to know what the priests of Hanuman know about monkeys; and what mahouts of famous elephants like Neela Deo and Mithi Baba and Gunpat Rao of the Chief Commissioner's stockades, know about elephants. At this point one reflection was irresistible. The priests of Hanuman gave all they had care, patience, tenderness, even their lives, to the monkey people.
As probably no one ever made verses on such an occasion before or since, they are deserving of quotation: "Stigmata maxillis referens insignia Laudis, Exultans remeo, victima grata Deo."
And voices sang in his ears "Gloria! Gloria in excelsis Deo!" mingling with the muffled chanting of priests at some distant altar; and he thought he made an attempt to touch the royal velvet pall that draped her beautiful lifeless body, when he was roughly thrust back by armed men with swords and bayonets who asked him "What do you here? Are you not her murderer?" and he cried out wildly "No, no!
If, said the emperor, or his lawyers for him, the civil power is from God, as it must be, since non est potestas nisi a Deo, the state stands on the same footing with the church, and the imperial power emanates from as high a source as the Pontifical.
Over the high altar of her chapel she writes SOLI DEO HONOR ET GLORIA. "It is the way to make no one jealous," she remarks. She was rather inclined toward Jansenism, but she could not fathom all the subtleties of her friends the Port Royalists, and begged them to "have the kindness, out of pity for her, to thicken their religion a little as it evaporated in so much reasoning."
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