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To sneer and snap our fingers at the energies and organizing powers of others is often but a poor excuse for our own inertia. It is certainly no argument. Fas est ab hoste doceri. The lesson has often a sting, but it is a lesson. . . . We need organization! . . . The Congress is the great medium of organization. What are we going to do?
I write considerably in the dark; but, if it is Mr. Gifford that I am addressing, I am persuaded that, in an appeal to his humanity and justice, he will acknowledge the fas ab hoste doceri.
It is the Catholic body expressing itself with one voice and one heart in the work and in the interests common to us all as Catholics." The N.C.W.C. Bulletin, Oct., 1920. Fas est ab hoste doceri. . . . Powerful is the example of a brother, but often, stronger and more pungent is the example that comes from an enemy. There are times indeed, when shame and honour are stronger than love.
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.
Mason's efforts and arguments at the same bar. Fas est ab hoste doceri; and I must have been unintelligent, indeed, not to have learned something from the constant displays of that power which I had so much occasion to see and to feel.
We shall not undertake to anticipate their reply, but I shall content ourselves with pointing out, on the principle of fas est ab hoste doceri, what they may learn from this attack, and especially what hints may be derived from it in regard to the proper objective point of their proposed operations.
We are living in an age of efficiency through co-operation. Fas est ab hoste doceri. The lesson coming from our separated brethren should strike home. One has to go West to see the feverish activities of the different denominations in that new field.
"Forewarned, forearmed!" replied Duplessis, imperturbably, "Fas est ab hoste doceri, I mean, 'It is right to be taught by an enemy; and I never remember the day when you were otherwise, and yet I am not a bankrupt, though I receive you in a house which, thanks to you, is so modest in point of size!" "Bah! that was a mistake of mine, and, ha! ha! you had your revenge there that forest!"
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Several Relief Committees assembled in Dublin, but not one of them was constituted after the plan suggested by O'Connell, although many influential persons expressed their warm approval of it, one landlord, whilst he did so, offensively applying to its originator the vile quotation: fas est ab hoste doceri. Towards the end of September Mr.
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