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No. 77. Tuesday, May 29, 1711. Budgell. 'Non convivere licet, nec urbe tota Quisquam est tam prope tam proculque nobis. Mart. My Friend WILL HONEYCOMB is one of those Sort of Men who are very often absent in Conversation, and what the French call a reveur and a distrait.
Phrases like Trahimur sub nomine pacis Momentumque fuit mutatus Curio rerum, recall the pen of Tacitus. Others are finer still Caesar's energy is rivalled by the line "Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum." The duty of securing liberty, even at the cost of blood, was never more finely expressed than by the noble words: "Ignoratque datos ne quisquam serviat enses."
"Quisquam Vix radicitus e vita se tollit, et eicit; Sed facit esse sui quiddam super inscius ipse, Nec removet satis a projecto corpore sese, et Vindicat." Bertrand de Guesclin, dying at the siege of the Castle of Rancon, near unto Puy, in Auvergne, the besieged were afterwards, upon surrender, enjoined to lay down the keys of the place upon the corpse of the dead general.
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