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Every one can be charmed by a fine novel, few by a fine painting. 'Indocti rationem artis intelligunt, indocti voluptatem. A happy sentence that in Quinctilian, Sir, is it not? But, bless me, I am forgetting the letter of my good friend Dr. Hebraist. The charms of your conversation carry me away. And indeed I have seldom the happiness to meet a gentleman so well-informed as yourself.
And afterwards he has, "Stilphonem, inquam, noveras?" Siet is the word at full length; sit is the contracted form. One may use either; and so we find in the same passage, "Quam cara sint, quae post carendo intelligunt, Quamque attinendi magni dominatus sient." Nor should I find fault with "Scripsere alii rem."
Every one can be charmed by a fine novel, few by a fine painting. 'Indocti rationem artis intelligunt, indocti voluptatem. A happy sentence that in Quinctilian, Sir, is it not? But, bless me, I am forgetting the letter of my good friend Dr. Hebraist. The charms of your conversation carry me away. And indeed I have seldom the happiness to meet a gentleman so well-informed as yourself.
And those who take this sentence in a contrary sense interpret it amiss: "Ista sic reciprocantur, ut et si divinatio sit, dii sint; et si dii lint, sit divinatio." Much more wisely Pacuvius "Nam istis, qui linguam avium intelligunt, Plusque ex alieno jecore sapiunt, quam ex suo, Magis audiendum, quam auscultandum, censeo."
It, peradventure, only appertains to that sole all-potent testimony to tell us. "This is, and that is, and not that other." I am plain and heavy, and stick to the solid and the probable, avoiding those ancient reproaches: "Majorem fidem homines adhibent iis, quae non intelligunt; Cupidine humani ingenii libentius obscura creduntur."
Quæ bruta non faciunt, sed sola ratione hominis propria, non affectione communis naturæ, omnes homines faciunt, fierique opportere intelligunt hoc fit jure gentium. Sect. 4. For my part, I take the law of nature and the law of nations to be one and the same. For what is the law of nations but that which nature’s light and reason hath taught so to all nations?
Sir, Your most humble servant, No. 58. Damnant guod non intelligunt. CIC. They condemn what they do not understand. "What I understand," said Socrates, "I find to be excellent; and, therefore, believe that to be of equal value which I cannot understand."
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