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"Don't say a word but 'uh-huh," whispered Dan quickly to Frank. "You'll be glad if you do it. It's all right." "Uh-huh," said Frank obediently, but thinking somethings that would have startled the men with him if they had guessed them. "Ipse dixit, de facto, as we say in the law," proceeded the judge pompously. "That's all, I think." The speaker dipped a pen in ink.
I shall change my opinion if you do not agree with me, but in that case I beg of you to give me clear reasons for your disagreement; for although I feel bound to bow to a man of your judgment, yet in a point of such importance, I consider that I ought to give way rather to a reasoned statement than to an ipse dixit.
"Sine qua non Ips Dixit Quid pro quo cui bono Ad infininim E Unibus plurum." Brown. Two hours later. Return we again to the Banditti's Cave. Revelry still holds high carnival among the able and efficient bandits. A knock is heard at the door. From his throne at the head of the table the Chief cries, "Come in!" and an old man, haggard, white-haired, and sadly bent, enters the cave.
On January 14, 1707, a Roman chronicler noted the arrival of "a Saxon, an excellent player on the harpsichord and a composer of music, who has to-day displayed his ability in playing the organ in the church of St. We owe the discovery of this important document to Mr. Newman Flower. The next date known to us is that of April 11 on the manuscript of Handel's Dixit Dominus, composed in Rome.
It claims to impose silence at will on any matters, or controversies, of doctrine, which on its own ipse dixit, it pronounces to be dangerous, or inexpedient, or inopportune.
I must again be permitted to remind him, that although my ipse dixit may not be as great as his, yet it somewhat reduces the force of his calling my attention to the enormity of my making a like charge against him. Go on, Judge Douglas. Mr.
Some of the hearers of Pythagoras were content with his ipse dixit; while others were taught in secret those doctrines which were not deemed fit to be communicated to profane and insufficiently prepared ears.
Let us then to another verse: "Walkyn a mighty axe did sway, Black Roger's sword some few did slay, Yet Giles slew many more than they, Dixit!" "Here now, we have each one his line apiece, which is fair and the lines trip it commendingly, how think ye?" "I think it a lie!" growled Roger. "Aye me!" sighed the archer, "thou'rt fasting, Rogerkin, and an empty belly ever giveth thee an ill tongue.
Lincoln has not character enough for integrity and truth merely on his own ipse dixit to arraign President Buchanan, President Pierce and nine Judges of the Supreme Court, not one of whom would be complimented by being put on an equality with him.
"Thrax puer, astricto glacie dum ludit in Hebro, Frigore concretas pondere rupit aquas. Quumque imae partes rapido traherentur ab amne, Abscidit, heu! tenerum lubrica testa caput. Orba quod inventum mater dum conderet urna, 'Hoc peperi flammis, cetera, dixit, 'aquis." This is evidently a study from the Greek, probably from an Alexandrine writer.
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