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By legislation is meant the making of law its primary enactment or subsequent alteration. Jurisprudence is the science of what the law is or means, and its practical application to cases as they arise. The province of legislation is jus dare of jurisprudence, jus dicere. The latter is entirely in the hands of lawyers as a body the former almost entirely.

The Admiral, thus peremptorily summoned, within five days, without assistance, without documents, and from the walls of a prison, to answer to these charges, 'solos ex vinculis causam dicere', undertook his task with the boldness of innocence.

On such a subject as the Philosophy of Protestantism 'satius erat silere, quam parcius, dicere. Better were absolute silence, more respectful as regards the theme, less tantalizing as regards the reader, than a style of discussion so fragmentary and so rapid. But, before we go farther, what are we to call this bold man?

'Difficile EST PROPRIE COMMUNIA DICERE. Lambin's Comment is, 'Communia hoc loco appellat Horatius argumenta fabularum

And, in our mind, though far inferior as a moralist to the Stoics, Aristotle is often less of a pagan than Paley. Coleridge's dislike to Sir Sidney Smith and the Egyptian Lord Hutchinson fell under the category of Martial's case. 'Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare, Hoc solum novi non amo te, Sabidi.

Pace mihi liceat, coelestes, dicere vestra; Mortalis visust pulchrior esse deo-. The author of this epigram, Greek in its tone and inspired by Greek enthusiasm for art, was no less a man than the conqueror of the Cimbri, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, consul in 652. IV. XII. Course of Literature and Rhetoric

They must have arrived to the degree of quicquid conabar dicere, to make verses, almost whether they will or not. "If they are anything below this, it will look rather like the design of two, than the answer of one. It will appear that your Actors hold intelligence together; that they perform their tricks, like fortune tellers, by confederacy.

Of the relation of this voyage by Alvarez, which Purchas published in an abbreviated form, from a translation out of the Italian in the collection of Ramusio, found among the papers of Hakluyt, Purchas gives the following character: "I esteem it true in those things which he saith he saw: In some others which he had by relation of enlarging travellers, or boasting Abassines, he may perhaps sometimes rather mendacia dicere, than mentiri."

"In this house you are different from other people," replies Harry. "I don't know how, but I always feel quiet and happy somehow when I come to you." "Quis me uno vivit felicior? aut magis hac est Optandum vita dicere quis potuit?" calls out General Lambert. "Do you know where I got these verses, Mr.

The Latin phrase for that distinction is jus dare, and jus dicere. In early England, in Anglo-Saxon times, the Parliament never did anything but tell what the law was; and, as I said, not only what it was then, but what it had been, as they supposed, for thousands of years before. The notion of a legislature to make new laws is an entirely modern conception of Parliament. How did it arise?