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She could have wished, in her simple kindness, to follow him, and make peace; but he was now in a coterie of strangers; and shortly afterwards he left the room, and she did not see him again for weeks. NIHIL est aliud magnum quam multa minuta.* VETUS. AUCTOR. * "There is nothing so great as the collection of the minute."
The American Bittern is not mentioned in Professor Ansted's list, no specimen having been found in the Channel Islands till after the publication of his list, and of course there is no specimen in the Museum. LITTLE BITTERN. Ardetta minuta, Linnaeus. French, "Heron Blongios."
This latter speech having been delivered during a halt, the Corporal had heard it: he grinned delightedly as he touched his hat to Sir Peter, who now trotted off, and muttered to his young master: "Most sensible man, that, Sir!" Nihil est aliud magnum quam multa minuta. Vetus Auctor.
Should it be in my power to render any service in it, I shall do it with cheerfulness; but I repeat, that I think you are the only person authorized. I received, a few days ago, the Nuova Minuta of Tuscany, which Colonel Humphreys will deliver you. I have been so engaged that I have not been able to go over it with any attention.
He thus described his triumph: Domum tanquam ex Olympo victorem primarii me comitantur. I ministri o i lor segretari ne faceano la minuta in ispagnuolo, ed egli le recava nella lingua che era allora adoperata come lingua internazionale.
This latter speech having been delivered during a halt, the Corporal had heard it: he grinned delightedly as he touched his hat to Sir Peter, who now trotted off, and muttered to his young master: "Most sensible man, that, Sir!" Nihil est aliud magnum quam multa minuta. Vetus Auctor.
The lectus at which the cup began to circulate was summus, the next medius, the last imus. Asin. 5, 2, 41. See Becker's Gallus, p. 471 et seq. SICUT ... EST: 'as we find'; so Off. 1, 32 ut in fabulis est, and often. MINUTA: see n. on 52.
There are two specimens in the Museum, both in breeding plumage. LITTLE STINT. Tringa minuta, Leishler. French, "Becasseau echasses," "Becasseau minute." The Little Stint is only an occasional and never numerous autumnal visitant. I have seen one or two in the flesh at Mr. Couch's, killed towards the end of October, but I have never seen one alive or shot one myself.
Hull's estimate, no less than 3450 feet in Cheshire, and it covers a large extent of country between Lancashire and Devonshire. In Worcestershire and Warwickshire in sandstone belonging to the uppermost part of the Keuper the bivalve crustacean Estheria minuta occurs.
In Varro's time the Roman fever had begun to sap the vitality of the Roman people, and the "animalia minuta" in this passage suggests that Varro had a curious appreciation of what we call the modern science of the subject. Not the least profitable chapters in this book are those devoted to the preparation of manure in composts, to be ripened in pits as Varro advises in the text.
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