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"Torriguiam Tamaris ne spernat; Leighius addet Mox terras terris, inclyte Drake, tuis." "Neat, i' faith, la!" Whereon all the rest, as in duty bound, approved also. "This for the erudite: for vulgar ears the vernacular is more consonant, sympathetic, instructive; as thus:
The boy accordingly went out "Why," said Corcoran, in his absence, "if ever there was a phanix, and that boy will be the bird an Irish phanix he will be, a Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno! There's no batin' him at anything he undher-takes. Why, there's thim that are makin' good bread by their larnin', that couldn't resolve that; and you all saw how he did it widout the book!
"A ghost in the cabin?" said the passenger, laughing; "and in daylight to? Why, Captain Dinks, he must be a sort of rara avis not in terris, however, in this instance." "A ghost in the cabin?" repeated the captain, in a serious tone of voice, with a frown on his forehead that somewhat disturbed the usual good-humoured expression of his countenance; "we must see about this.
Almost might the unfortunate lady have exclaimed, Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?
How his Grace might have got through his difficulty had they been left alone, cannot be told. For at this moment the door was opened, and Lady Glencora Palliser was announced. Rara Avis in Terris "Come and see the country and judge for yourself," said Phineas. "I should like nothing better," said Mr. Monk.
'Nos campis, nos montibus fruimur; nostri sunt amnes, nostri lacus; nos fruges serimus, nos arbores; nos aquarum inductionibus terris fecunditatem damus; nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus; nostris denique manibus in rerum naturâ quasi alteram naturam efficere conamur. We can hardly anticipate, that science shall acquire a similar power of regulating the condition of human society or the progress of human affairs.
This was a woman of mean condition; and, amongst that class of people, 'tis no very new thing to see some examples of rare virtue: "Extrema per illos Justitia excedens terris vestigia fecit." The other two were noble and rich, where examples of virtue are rarely lodged.
Aen. 6, 870: Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata. XIV. Consularium. Cf. note on it, 8. Aulus Plautius. Ann. 13, 32; Dio. 60, 19. Ostorius Scapula. Ann. 12, 31-39. Proxima, sc. Romae. Veteranorum colonia. Camolodunum. Ann. 12, 32. Now Colchester. Dr. Et reges. Kings also, i.e. besides other means. Ut vetere, etc. So in the MSS. and earliest editions.
The character of the Dauphin, whose exemplary life in the midst of a corrupt court, was a tacit reproof which his haughty father could ill brook, is well known. Ostendunt terris hunc tantum fata, neque ultrâ Esse sinunt.
Namque solebat esse Dominus, Romanorum Graecorum, Asiae, Syriae, Iudeae, AEgypti, Arabiae, et Persiae, at nunc solum retinet Greciam, cum aliquibus terris Greciae adiacentibus, sicut Calistrum, Cholchos, Ortigo, Tylbriam, Minos, Flexon, Melos, Carpates, Lemnon, Thraciam, et Macedoniam totam: Suntque sub eo Caypoplij, et alti Pyntenardi, ac maxima pars Commannorum.
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