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"Incredible est, Deum illis verbis ad populum fuisse locutum quibus deciperetur," is a verdict in which, for once, Jesuit casuistry concurs with the healthy moral sense of all mankind.
"In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem." Boethius. Carrlyon's Early Years and late Reflections, vol. i. p. 27. The Bristol Lectures Marriage Life at Clevedon The Watchman Retirement to Stowey Introduction to Wordsworth.
For my part I stood amaz'd, and assur'd them, that neither Gito, a bashful lad, was able for the drudgery, nor the girl of years to receive it. "Ita," inquit Quartilla, "minor eat ista quam ego fui, quum primum virum passa sum? Iunonem meam iratam habeam, si umquam me meminerim virginem fuisse.
Mr. L., on behalf of the committee who had reported on that subject, returned thanks. He made an interesting extract from the report, by which it appeared how very much stress had been laid formerly on the mode of tooling, by the fathers, both Greek and Latin. In confirmation of this pleasing fact, he made a very striking statement in reference to the earliest work of antediluvian art. Father Mersenne, that learned Roman Catholic, in page one thousand four hundred and thirty-one of his operose Commentary on Genesis, mentions, on the authority of several rabbis, that the quarrel of Cain with Abel was about a young woman; that, by various accounts, Cain had tooled with his teeth, [Abelem fuisse morsibus dilaceratum
'Expositio Matt. fol. 71. 'I tell the truth to thee, there's nought like Liberty! Major's 'History of Greater Britain. Hume Brown's 'Knox, i. 44. See Scots Acts, A.D. 1471, c. 43. An Petrus Romae fuerit, sub judice lis est: Simonem Romae nemo fuisse negat. On this dark background Knox for the first time appears in history.
Nor was this custom confined to these races, for, in the words of Cicero: Antiquissimum sepulturae genus id fuisse videtur, quo apud Xenophontem Cyrus utitur; redditur enim terrae corpus, et ita locatum ac situm, quasi operimento matria obducitur.
NEMO etc.: this line of argument is often repeated in Cic.; see Tusc. 1, 32 et seq.; Arch. 29. DUOS AVOS ... PATRUUM: see nn. on 29. MULTOS: sc. alios. ESSE CONATOS: loosely put for fuisse conaturos, as below, suscepturum fuisse. So in the direct narration we might have, though exceptionally, non conabantur nisi cernerent for non conati essent nisi vidissent. CERNERENT: see n. on 13 quaereretur.
At Schemnitz he asked the superintendent, an comparcant Dæmunculi vel pygmæi in fodinis? respondit affirmative, et narrat plura exempla; and at Herrengrund, utrum appareant Dæmunculi seu pygmæi? respondit tales visos fuisse, et auditos pluries. Ak. in Wien, B. xliii., 1te Abth., S. 435.
Valerius Maximus says that while the body of the mother of Gorgia Epirotas was being carried to the grave, a loud noise was heard to come from the coffin and on examination a live child was found between the thighs, whence arose the proverb: "Gorgiam prius ad funus elatum, quam natum fuisse."
Caeterum cum non temere cam nauigationem intermissam crederem, opinabar ab Imperatore Russorum et Moscouiae obstaculum aliquod interiectum fuisse.
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