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Vera non verba is our maxim to-day; truth, not words, must mark the tribute the college pays to the sober dignity and solid worth of its distinguished son.
Sit modo is, qui dicet aut scribet, institutus liberaliter educatione doctrinâque puerili, et flagret studio, et a naturâ adjuvetur, et in universorum generum infinitis disceptationibus exercitatus; ornatissimos scriptores oratoresque ad cognoscendum imitandumque legerit; næ ille haud sane, quemadmodum verba struat et illuminet, a magistris istis requiret.
It was not long, however, before Grayson issued from the door and advanced to the fence, when Driscol served the process of the court in hæc verba: "Mr. Grayson, the regulators of this settlement have directed me to give you ten days' notice to leave the country.
But more beautiful than the grounds themselves is the inscription which I found at the gates of the loveliest of them all. I wish I had the ipsissima verba of it, for it seemed to be characterised by an admirable simplicity and directness. The sense of it is this, These gardens belong to the public and the owners are requested to protect their property.
The εὐφήμει of the Greeks, and favete linguis, or bona verba quæso, of the Romans, evince the care with which they endeavored to repress the utterance of any word expressive or suggestive of ill fortune; not from notions of delicate politeness, to which their general mode of conduct and feeling had very little reference, but from bona fide alarm lest the event so suggested to the imagination should in fact occur.
The philosophy of the excellent Corporal Nym is the best after all; things must be as they may pauca verba."
Pope wrote to him, "to beg it of him, as a piece of mercy, that he would not laugh at his gravity, but permit him to wear the beard of a philosopher until he pulled it off and made a jest of it himself." Old Weymouth, in the latter part of Anne's reign, said to him, in his lordly Latin, "Philosopha verba ignava opera," and Swift frequently repeated the sarcasm.
And now, good-morrow to "the Muses' son of Promise"; as for "the feats he yet may do," as we do not pretend to say, like himself, "Muse of my native land am I inspired," we shall adhere to the safe old rule of pauca verba. We venture to make one small prophecy, that his bookseller will not a second time venture £50 upon any thing he can write.
"Honi soit qui mal y pense," murmured Don, slowly recovering from his fit of laughter. "Ipsissima verba," said Flamby. Don, who was drying his eyes, turned slowly and regarded her. Flamby blushed rosily. "What did you say?" asked Don. "Nothing. I was thinking out loud." "Do you habitually think in Latin?" "No. It was just a trick of dad's. I wish you could have heard him swear in Latin."
But you cannot go utterly alone. Alas! that I am too old to be of any use. Cripit verba dolor, my dear Prince, at the thought that I am over seventy and of no more account in the world than a cripple in the church porch. It seems that to sit at home and pray to God for the nation and for you is all I am fit for. But there is my son, my youngest son, Peter. He will make a worthy companion for you.