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Nemo ergo ex me scire quærat, quod me nescire scio, nisi forte ut nescire discat. AUGUSTINUS. De Civ. Dei, xii. 7. The people who call themselves "Agnostics" have been charged with doing so because they have not the courage to declare themselves "Infidels." It has been insinuated that they have adopted a new name in order to escape the unpleasantness which attaches to their proper denomination.
Barneveld, who turned his eyes, as much as in such an inflammatory age it was possible, from subtle points of theology, and relied on his great-grandfather's motto of humility, "Nil scire tutissima fides" was perhaps nearer to the dogma of the dominant Reformed Church than he knew, although always the consistent and strenuous champion of the civil authority over Church as well as State.
21. -Quam lepide legeis compostae ut tesserulae omnes Arte pavimento atque emblemate vermiculato-. The poet advises him -Quo facetior videare et scire plus quant ceteri -to say not -pertaesum- but -pertisum-. IV. III. Its Suspension by Scipio Aemilianus
'Ut sciam me scire, necessario debeo prius scire. Spinoza will scarcely carry with him the reasoner of the nineteenth century in arguments like these.
We are to content ourselves with the light it pleases the sun to communicate to us, by virtue of his rays; and who will lift up his eyes to take in a greater, let him not think it strange, if for the reward of his presumption, he there lose his sight. "Quis hominum potest scire consilium Dei? Aut quis poterit cogitare quid velit Dominus?"
Boswell's quotation is from Persius, Satires, i. 27: 'Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter. It is the motto to The Spectator, No. 379. She died four months after her father. I cannot find that she received this additional fortune. See ante, ii. 47. See ante, iv. 5, note 2. See ante, iii. 231.
Now where there is no constituted judge, as between independent states there is not, the vicinage itself is the natural judge. It is, preventively, the assertor of its own rights, or remedially, their avenger. Neighbours are presumed to take cognizance of each other's acts. "Vicini vicinorum facta praesumuntur scire."
Barneveld, with his "nil scire tutissima fides," was denounced as a disguised Catholic or an infidel, and as for Paul Buys, he was a "bolsterer of Papists, an atheist, a devil," as it has long since been made manifest. Nevertheless these men believed that they understood the spirit of their country and of the age.
But that graue auncient writer, Cornelius Tacitus, hath a wise, briefe, pithy saying, and it is this: "Nemo tentauit inquirere in columnas Herculis, sanctiusque ac reuerentius habitum est de factis Deorum credere, quam scire."
The Proprietors had done acts, which the Lords in regency had declared amounted to a forfeiture of their charter, and had ordered a writ of scire facias to be taken out, for repealing their patent and rendering the grant void and null.
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