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I have some plain common-sense, some promptitude and keenness, some pleasure in hardy danger, some fortitude in bearing pain, qualities for which I bless Heaven, for they are qualities good and useful in private life. But in the forum of men, in the market of fortune, are they not flocci, nauci, nihili?
The interest of 6,000 pounds invested in the Bank of England was flocci nauci to the voluptuous spendthrift, Gabriel Varney. Now, these trustees were selected from the painter's earlier and more respectable associates, who had dropped him, it is true, in his days of beggary and disrepute, but whom the fortune that made him respectable had again conciliated.
I have some plain common-sense, some promptitude and keenness, some pleasure in hardy danger, some fortitude in bearing pain, qualities for which I bless Heaven, for they are qualities good and useful in private life. But in the forum of men, in the market of fortune, are they not flocci, nauci, nihili?
'Flocci, nihili' A feather brain, a nonentity. 'Classis primæ exultimis' Always the first in his class, counting from the bottom. And how about his morals? He is a wine-bibber. 'Ubi vinum intrat, ibi ratio exit' When the wine's in, the wit's out. He is a dancer and a serenader. He goes about with musicians and other lewd fellows.
I want to walk to Wellington, to get some things at Cherry's." Pike? Ah! I am very glad of that. But I fear it can only be fly-books." "I want a little Horace for eighteen-pence the Cambridge one just published, to carry in my pocket and a new hank of gut." "Which of the two is more important? Put that into Latin, and answer it." "Utrum pluris facio? Flaccum flocci. Viscera magni."
The interest of 6,000 pounds invested in the Bank of England was flocci nauci to the voluptuous spendthrift, Gabriel Varney. Now, these trustees were selected from the painter's earlier and more respectable associates, who had dropped him, it is true, in his days of beggary and disrepute, but whom the fortune that made him respectable had again conciliated.
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