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JOHNSON. 'Depend upon it, Sir, every man will have as fine a thing as he can get; as a large diamond for his ring. BOSWELL. 'Pardon me, Sir: a man of a narrow mind will not think of it, a slight trinket will satisfy him: "Nec sufferre queat majoris pondera gemmae."
Höffler assigned to it in 1897 although on grounds more or less hypothetical a mean parallax corresponding to a light-journey of 192 years, which would give to the marching squadron a total extent of at least fourteen times the distance from the sun to Alpha Centauri, while implying for its brightest member Eta Ursæ Majoris the lustre of six hundred suns.
JOHNSON. 'Depend upon it, Sir, every man will have as fine a thing as he can get; as a large diamond for his ring. BOSWELL. 'Pardon me, Sir: a man of a narrow mind will not think of it, a slight trinket will satisfy him: "Nee sufferre queat majoris pondera gemmae ."
Nunquam enim hoc convenisse naturae auctori parentique rerum omnium bonarum. Sed hanc utilitatem rei majoris alia quaedam incommoditas extrinsecus consecuta est, ut fieret caput tenuiter munitum et ictibus offensionibusque parvis fragile. Proinde morbi quoque et aegritudines partae sunt, dum salus paritur.
Sed supplementum videtur mensurari per indigentiam; majoris enim valoris est supplementum quod majorem supplet indigentiam.... Item hoc probatur signo, quia videmus quod illo tempore quo vina deficiunt quia magis indigeremus eis ipsa fiunt cariora....
He said if you wish to assure yourself that ê Coronæ is a double star, first direct your telescope to a Geminorum, to z Aquarii, to m Draconis, to r Herculis, to a Piscium, to e Lyræ. Look at those stars for a long time, so as to acquire the habit of observing such objects. Then pass on to x Ursæ majoris, where the closeness of the two members is still greater.
Desmond and John joined in this hunt of the right word with enthusiasm. One evening the four boys encountered the simple sentence "majoris pretii quam quod aestimari possit." "'Priceless' 'll cover that," said Caesar. "Or 'inesteemable," said the Demon. The three other boys stared at the Demon, and then at each other. The Caterpillar, something of a purist in his way, drawled out
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