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The State, in the condition I have described it, was delivered into the hands of Lord Chatham a great and celebrated name; a name that keeps the name of this country respectable in every other on the globe. It may be truly called Clarum et venerabile nomen Gentibus, et multum nostrae quod proderat urbi.

Insigne gentis obliquare crinem nodoque substringere: sic Suevi a ceteris Germanis, sic Suevorum ingenui a servis separantur in aliis gentibus, seu cognatione aliqua Suevorum, seu quod saepe accidit, imitatione, rarum et intra juventae spatium; apud Suevos, usque ad canitiem, horrentem capillum retro sequuntur, ac saepe in ipso solo vertice religant.

We shall march, cum gentibus, to repulse the invading foe. Here is the royal order, and here is the call to the nation." Count Vavel's face at these words became suddenly transfigured like the features of a dead man who has been restored to life. His eyes sparkled, his lips parted, his cheeks glowed with color his whole countenance was eloquent; his tongue alone was silent. He could not speak.

Maneat, quaeso, duretque gentibus, si non amor nostri, at certe odium sui: quando, urgentibus imperii fatis, nihil jam praestare fortuna majus potest, quam hostium discordiam. XXXIV. Angrivarios et Chamavos a tergo Dulgibini et Chasuarii cludunt aliaeque gentes, haud perinde memoratae. A fronte Frisii excipiunt.

Inhabitants of Norfolk and Suffolk. Rem Romanam huc satietate gloriæ provectam, ut externis quoque gentibus quietem velit. Tacit. Annal. Nam duces, ubi impetrando triumphalium insigni sufficere res suas crediderant, hostam omittebant. Tacit. Annal. Sigonii de Antiquo Jure Provinciarum, Lib. 1 and 2. Cic. in Verrem, I.

Clarum et venerabile nomen Gentibus. Our opinions, our fashions, even our games, were adopted in France, a ray of national glory illuminated each individual, and every Englishman was supposed to be born a patriot and a philosopher.

Our men were not driven to this accomplishment by desire for empty fame, or for money, or to widen our borders motives which drove almost all others who take up or have taken up arms. About these the poet correctly says: Quis furor, o cives, quae tanta licentia ferri, Gentibus invisis proprium praebere cruorem?

'Clarum et venerabile nomen Gentibus, et multum nostrae quod proderat urbi."

Before returning from the author to his books, it is interesting to know how he and his circle appeared at this period to some who did not belong to them. Gibbon, for instance, visited Paris in the spring of 1763. "The moment," he says, "was happily chosen. At the close of a successful war the British name was respected on the continent; clarum et venerabile nomen gentibus.

Non enim dubium est quin recta et breuis via pateat in occidentem Cathaium vsque. In quod regnum, si recte nauigationem instituant, nobilissimas totius mundi merces colligent, et multis gentibus adhuc idololatris Christi nomen communicabunt.