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The duel at the Diamond in the Desert is admittedly one of the happiest things of the kind by a master in that kind, and if the adventures in the chapel of Engedi are both a little farcical and a little 'apropos of nothing in particular, the story nowhere else halts or fails till it reaches its real 'curtain' with the second Accipe hoc!
He proceeded, and had consecrated the Host hoc est corpus meum when cry of terror arose from the affrighted congregation. "Mylord, fly, and save yourself! Captain Smellpriest and his gang are upon us." The bishop never once turned round, nor seemed to hear them; but Reilly did, and saw that the whole congregation had fled, and that there only remained the bishop and himself.
This comes of not attending to the Latin maxim 'Hoc age' mind the object before you. Dr. Alison, a wise man, 'hoc egit: Coleridge 'aliud egit. And we see the result. In a case which suited him, by interesting his peculiar feeling, Coleridge could command 'Attention full ten times as much as there needs.
Hoc solum mihi potest jocundium esse Quod divi parentes me, Ludovicus et Beatrix Mediolanenses duces genuere, M.C.C.C.C.LXXXXVII. Tertio Nonas Januarii."
"Caput xxviii. De capitulo generali cubi et rerum æqualium numero, Magistri Nicolai Tartagliæ, Brixiensis Hoc capitulum habui
It may amuse him for a time, as a child, by the novelty and variety of objects, which excite an unmeaning admiration. To act thus, adds the learned stoic, is not to travel, it is to wander, and lose both one's time and labour. "Non est hoc peregrinari, sed erraie." Wherefore Horace, in imitation of Homer, says, in praise of Ulysses, "Qui mores hominum multorum vidit, et urbes."
The First Consul received, the day of his arrival at Havre, only a part of the authorities of the city, and soon after retired, saying that he was fatigued; but at six o'clock in the morning of the next day he was on horseback, and until two o'clock he rode along the seacoast and low hills of Ingouville for more than a league, and the banks of the Seine as far as the cliffs of Hoc.
Or if thou hadst no thought of me, Nor what I have endured for thee, Yet shame and honour might prevail To keep thee thus from turning tail: For who would grudge to spend his blood in His honour's cause?" Quoth she, A pudding. Part I., Cant. 3, 183. Third Paper. Hoc est quod palles? Cur quis non prandeat, hoc est? PERS., Sat. iii. 85.
Peter's little sister was swinging herself on her crutches, in the place where the wax doll did not come up, tipping her little face up, and smiling just like the dolls around her. "Why, what is this!" said the father. "Hoc credam! I thought that wax doll did not come up. Can my eyes deceive me? non verum est! There is a doll there and what a doll! on crutches, and in poor, homely gear!"
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