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But I had almost made up my mind to change my plan, and leave all to time edax rerum to illuminate or to consume. But I think little Maud would like to contribute to the restitution of her family name. It may cost you something are you willing to buy it at a sacrifice?
It was deemed too good to sit in, except when there was company: there never being company, it was never sat in. Indeed, now the paper was falling off the walls with the damp, and the rats, mice, and moths those "edaces rerum" had eaten, between them, most of the chair-bottoms and a considerable part of the floor.
So far are we governed by the catenations of motions, which affect both the body and the mind of man, and which begin with our irritability, and end with it. Haud equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illis Ingenium, aut rerum fato prudentia major. Virg. Georg. I. Instinctive actions defined. Of connate passions. II. Of the sensations and motions of the foetus in the womb.
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."
Public revenges are for the most part fortunate; as that for the death of Caesar; for the death of Pertinax; for the death of Henry the Third of France; and many more. But in private revenges, it is not so. Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate. Of Adversity Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia.
If they had compelled him to circumcise Titus, falsis fratribus parata erat calumniandi ansa adversus Paulum, saith Pareus, who also inferreth well from this place, that we are taught to beware of two extremes, to wit, the scandal of the weak on the one part, and the pervicacy of false brethren on the other part: Si enim, saith he, usu rerum mediarum videmus, vel illos offendi, hoc est, in fide labefactari vel istos in falsa opinione obfirmari omittendae potius sunt, quia tunc per accidens fiunt illicitae.
"Hinc igitur, praeter pure mathematica et phantasiae subjecta, collegi quaedam metaphysica solaque mente perceptibilia, esse admittenda et massae materiali principium quoddam superius et, ut sic dicam, formale addendum: quandoquidem omnes veritates rerum corporearum ex solis axiomatibus logisticis et geometricis, nempe de magno et parvo, toto et parte, figura et situ, colligi non possint; sed alia de causa et effectu, actioneque et passione, accedere debeant, quibus ordinis rerum rationes salventur.
And a provision is made for the indefinite continuance of disappointment in the lot of even the most successful of men, by the fact in rerum naturu that whenever the wants felt on a lower level are supplied, you advance to a higher platform, where a new crop of wants is felt.
But before we come to show particularly what princes may do, and what they may not do, in making laws about things ecclesiastical, we will first of all lay down these propositions following:— Whatsoever the power of princes be in things and causes ecclesiastical, it is not, sure, absolute nor unbounded. And again, Vis tuam voluntatem esse regulam rerum omnium, ut omnia fiant pro uuo beneplacito?
Then it will be the common privilege, "rerum cognoscere causas"; the word supernatural will have no sense; superstition will be a dimly understood trait of the early race; and where now we perceive an appalling Mystery, everything will be lucid and serene as a geometric demonstration. Such an epoch of Reason might be the happiest the world could know.
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