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Nam petere imperium quod inanest nec datur umquam, Atque in eo semper durum sufferre laborem, Hoc est adverse nixantem trudere monte Saxum quod tamen e summojam vertice rusum Volvitur et plani raptim petit sequora campi. In this idyllic existence, in which, as I have said, there is no ambition, several other ills are also wanting. There is, for instance, no News in the village.

We may continually turn our heads this way and that, as in a suspected country: "Quae, quasi saxum Tantalo, semper impendet." Our courts of justice often send back condemned criminals to be executed upon the place where the crime was committed; but, carry them to fine houses by the way, prepare for them the best entertainment you can

We may justly say of it, 'Nullum sine nomine saxum. Far over the rising hills of the north bank rose shaggy Cintra, 'the most blessed spot in the habitable globe, with its memorious convent and its Moorish castle.

One is the enumeration of Pompey's exploits "Quod si tam sacro dignaris nomine saxum " The other is the character which Cato gives of Pompey, "Civis obit, inquit " a pure gem of rhetoric, without one flaw, and, in my opinion, not very far from historical truth. When I consider that Lucan died at twenty-six, I cannot help ranking him among the most extraordinary men that ever lived.

Amen! and so be it: and so it will be, "Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet; imperiumque pater Romanus habebit." Novelty is not the only source of zeal.

Some of his fragments show the same sceptical tendencies that are prominent in Ennius. Pacuvius either improved his later style, or else confined its worst points to his tragedies, for nothing can be more classical and elegant than his epitaph, which is couched in diction as refined as that of Terence Adulescens, tametsi properas, te hoc saxum vocat Ut sese aspicias, delude quod scriptumst legas.

How happy should I have been to have had a kingdom only for the pleasure of being driven from it, and living disguised in an humble vale! As I got further into Virgil and Clelia, I found myself transported from Arcadia to the garden of Italy; and saw Windsor Castle in no other view than the Capitoli immobile saxum.

"Indeed, the infinity of the native names of places, all of which are descriptive and appropriate, is of itself a PRIMA FACIE evidence of their having strong ideas of property in the soil; for it is only where such ideas are entertained and acted on, that we find, as is certainly the case in Australia, NULLUM SINE NOMINE SAXUM. "I am, my dear Friend, "Your's very sincerely, "JOHN DUNMORE LANG.

The author of this pamphlet has chosen as a motto a passage from the Vulgate translation of Job, which is interesting as showing accurate observation of the action of the torrent: "Mons cadens definit, et saxum transfertur de loco suo; lapides excavant aquae et alluvione paullatim terra consumitur." Job xiv. 18, 19. The English version is much less striking, and gives a different sense.

"Indeed, the infinity of the native names of places, all of which are descriptive and appropriate, is of itself a PRIMA FACIE evidence of their having strong ideas of property in the soil; for it is only where such ideas are entertained and acted on, that we find, as is certainly the case in Australia, NULLUM SINE NOMINE SAXUM. "I am, my dear Friend, "Your's very sincerely, "JOHN DUNMORE LANG.