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'Ce n'est pas pour leurs beaux yeux au moins'. No, but for their own sakes, for commendations and applause. Let me then recommend this principle of vanity to you; act upon it 'meo periculo'; I promise you it will turn to your account. Practice all the arts that ever coquette did, to please. Be alert and indefatigable in making every man admire, and every woman in love with you.
"And I will vouch for Edie Ochiltree, meo periculo, in like manner," said Oldbuck. "So let your clerk draw out the bail-bond, and I will sign it."
"They know that flag, sir," said the good-natured old tar, quite solemnly, in the evening afterwards: "they respect it, sir." The authority of Her Majesty's lieutenant on board the steamer is stated to be so tremendous, that he may order it to stop, to move, to go larboard, starboard, or what you will; and the captain dare only disobey him suo periculo.
and that there is nothing naturally so contrary to our taste as satiety which proceeds from facility; nor anything that so much whets it as rarity and difficulty: "Omnium rerum voluptas ipso, quo debet fugare, periculo crescit." "Galla, nega; satiatur amor, nisi gaudia torquent."
"Behold," cried the pedant, "our guiding star! as welcome to us weary travellers, lost in the desert, as the polar star to the distressed mariner 'in periculo maris. That blessed star yonder, whose rays shine far out into the darkness, is a light burning in some warm, comfortable room, which forms Heaven be praised! part of the habitation of human and civilized beings not Laestrygon savages.
"Is this necessary to the making of gold?" asked Gregory. "Surely," Padraig assured him. "The pupil cannot do the work of the master, the master must not be compelled to labor as the pupil. It is written in our books Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno sapit Those are fortunate who learn at the risk of another, and again, He is wise who profits by others' folly."
Oldbuck, everybody in Fairport is always willing to oblige you and besides, I know that you are a prudent man, and one that would be as unwilling to lose forty, as four hundred merks. So I will accept your bail, meo periculo what say you to that law phrase again? I had it from a learned counsel. I will vouch it, my lord, he said, meo periculo."
"And I will vouch for Edie Ochiltree, meo periculo, in like manner," said Oldbuck. "So let your clerk draw out the bail-bond, and I will sign it."
Oldbuck, everybody in Fairport is always willing to oblige you and besides, I know that you are a prudent man, and one that would be as unwilling to lose forty, as four hundred merks. So I will accept your bail, meo periculo what say you to that law phrase again? I had it from a learned counsel. I will vouch it, my lord, he said, meo periculo."
I offer, periculo meo, a different conjecture, of which I shall show reason to believe that Dr. Munro may not disapprove. The number of the dwellers in the structure, and the duration of their occupancy, does not affect my argument.
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