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And I think that the angel Gabriel spoke with Mary just as he spoke with Daniel, when he called him "Chamudoth" and "Ish chamudoth, vir desiriorum", that is "Dear Daniel." That is the way Gabriel speaks, as we can see in Daniel.
About 1140, one Thomas de Cuckney founded the Abbey at Welbeck, which was to become an important centre for the Order, as in 1515 there were no fewer than 35 Premonstratensian monasteries in England, all subordinate in importance to Welbeck. Thomas de Cuckney was a vir bellicosus, and having built a castle at Cuckney, was a formidable subject during the troublous times of King Stephen's reign.
Upon both occasions that celebrated foreigner expressed his astonishment at Johnson's Latin conversation. When at Paris, Johnson thus characterised Voltaire to Freron the Journalist: 'Vir est acerrimi ingenii et paucarum literarum. In the course of this year Dr. Burney informs me that 'he very frequently met Dr. Johnson at Mr.
Significant is the introduction of the great navigator: Christophorus quidam Colonus, vir ligur. There was nothing more to know or say about the sailor of lowly origin and obscure beginnings, whose great achievement shed glory on his unconscious fatherland and changed the face of the world.
He who hungers and thirsts after righteousness is conscious of an inward void, in respect to righteousness, that must be filled from abroad. He who is meek is sensible that he is dependent for his moral excellence. He who is poor in spirit is, not pusillanimous as Thomas Paine charged upon Christianity but, as John of Damascus said of himself, a man of spiritual cravings, vir desideriorum.
For if we lose the piot and liquor of the grape, we lose all, both sense and law. If you restore them unto us at my request, I shall gain by it six basketfuls of sausages and a fine pair of breeches, which will do my legs a great deal of good, or else they will not keep their promise to me. Ho by gob, Domine, a pair of breeches is good, et vir sapiens non abhorrebit eam.
Virtue, re Aristippus; Aristippus must appear 23 in person. Vir. I ought to speak first. Aristippus is mine; his words and his deeds alike proclaim him mine. Lux. On the contrary, any one who will observe his garlands and his purple robes and his perfumes will agree that he is mine. Just. Peace! This suit must stand over, until Zeus has decided the appeal re Dionysius. The cases are similar.
Sorry poor old Eleanor isn't up to it." Maurice frowned; "Look here, Edith, that isn't respectful." Edith looked so blankly astonished that Mrs. Newbolt defended her: "But Eleanor does look old! And she'll lose her figger if she isn't careful! My dear grandmother used to say, 'Girls, I'd rather have you lose your vir "
He began to learn Greek when he was about thirty-five, but it was not till he had turned forty that he took up the study of it in real earnest; and, writing some years later, he gives quotations from a Latin version of Aristotle. These treatises bristle with quotations, Horace being his favourite author. "Vir in omni sapientiæ genere admirandus."
Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 15: Vir qui uxorem suam secundum sacram scripturam habet in potestate, similiter et in servis suis potestatem habebit, et omnia quae cum servis uxoris suae vel suis in expeditione acquisivit, in sua potestate permaneant. Lex Wisigothorum, iii, Tit. i, 6. Lex Ripuariorum, 37, 1. Leges Liutprandi, iv, 4. That is, for the common people.
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