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So the days fled by and I wonder if our friends across the Rapidan, who were going to crush us, were as gay as the folk about to be crushed? The future looked stormy, but we laughed and we did right, did we not, friend? That mirth was not unseemly not unworthy of approval. It is evidence at least of "game," non fractum esse fortuna et retinere in rebus asperis, dignitatem is it not?

The custom of the church is not enough to pitch on, and it is found oftentimes expedient to change a custom of the church. Nullus pudor est ad meliora transire, saith Ambrose to the Emperor Valentinian. And again, Corrigendum est quod illicite admittitur, aut a praedecessoribus admissum invenitur. A politic writer admonisheth retinere antiqua, only with this caution, Si proba.

Cicero, on the contrary, supposes it certain and universally acknowledged in the following passage. 'Quis enim vestrum, judices, ignorat, ita naturam rerum tulisse, ut quodam tempore homines, nondum neque naturali neque civili jure descripto, fusi per agros ac dispersi vagarentur tantumque haberent quantum manu ac viribus, per caedem ac vulnera, aut eripere aut retinere potuissent?

The heathenish priests laboured, per varietatem ceremoniarum, rem in precio retinere. The use for which Papists appoint their ceremonies, is, ut externam quandam majestatem sensibus objiciant; and so are the ceremonies urged upon us, though to conciliate reverence and due regard to divine worship, and to stir up devotion.