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We have not, however, got a certificate of success yet." "Patientia fit levior ferendo! Have patience, man. Wait till we see the Counsellor!" He had scarcely uttered the last words when that gentleman entered. "Well, Counsellor," said the priest, "is it a hit?" "Pray what is your Christian name, Mr. O'Shaughnessy?" inquired the lawyer o! young Denis.
Man remained, the sad stern manhood of the Stoic, the spirit that breathes through the character of Æneas, enduring, baffled, yet full of a faith that the very storms that drove him from sea to sea were working out some mysterious and divine order. Man was greater than his fate: "Quo fata trahunt retrahuntque sequamur, Quicquid erit, superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est."
However, as my commander was absolute, his orders peremptory, and my obedience necessary, I resolved to avail myself of a philosophy which hath been of notable use to me in the latter part of my life, and which is contained in this hemistich of Virgil: Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est. The meaning of which, if Virgil had any, I think I rightly understood, and rightly applied.
The husbandman cannot command either the nature of the earth or the seasons of the weather, no more can the physician the constitution of the patient, and the variety of accidents. There is no science or art till that step is taken. 'In these things, therefore, it is left unto us to proceed by APPLICATION. Vincenda est omnis fortuna ferendo: and so likewise Vincenda est omnis natura ferendo.