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So above adulescentia = adulescentes. AGENS ALIQUID: this phrase differs from agat in that while the subjunctive would express the fact of action, the participial phrase expresses rather the constant tendency to act. Agens aliquid forms a sort of attribute to senectus, parallel with operosa. Moliri differs from agere in that it implies the bringing into existence of some object. Cf.
See section 2. Section 7, supra. See ch. xxiii. section 14. Ch. xxiv. section 5. There were in Spain, and elsewhere, many women who were hypocrites, or deluded. Inner Fortress, vi. 1, section 4. Ch. xxvi. section 5; Inner Fortress, vi. 9, section 7. See ch. xxv. section 18. 2 Paralip. xx. 12: "Sed cum ignoremus quid agere debeamus, hoc solum habemus residui, ut oculos nostros dirigamus ad Te."
Sive perfidia, sive pertinacia id egerit, certe philosophiae schola interitum viri descripsisses. Longam tibi cantilenam narravi ocii causa, nihil agens aliquid agere volui, et res tibi narrare paulum similes histories priscorum.
He was not learned in his profession: And his eloquence, though viciously copious, yet was neither correct nor agreeable. Swift. Like Burnet's eloquence. Burnet, on Algernon Sidney's trial, observes, that: Finch aggravated the matter of the book, as a proof of his intentions, pretending it was an overt act, for he said, Scribere est agere. Swift.
Corfield: her motto was velle est agere; and a resolve once taken was like iron at white heat, struck into the shape of deed on the instant. Darting up from her chair, birdlike and angular, she put away her work. "Order the trap," she said briskly, "and come with me. We will go at once, before that poor creature has had time to do anything, wild, or silly."
Many Protestant churches declare, that the Bible, and the Bible only, contains their creed: but, do they not all mean by this the Bible, as it is explained by the Articles, the Formulary, or the Confession received by their church? Grotius's Treatise De Jure summarum potestatum circa sacra. And, Commentatio ad loca quædam Novi Testamenti, quæ de Antichristo agunt, aut agere putantur.
And the object of oratory is "id agere, ut iudici quae proposita fuerint, vera et honesta videantur": i.e. the object is not truth, but persuasion. We might get an idea of how such a training would fail in forming character, if we could imagine all our liberal education subordinated to the practice of journalism.
When several actors took part in a piece, each was said mimum agere, though this phrase originally applied only to the single actor. Laberius appears to have been a more careful writer. Syrus was not a literary man, but an improvisator and moralist. Being little known, they are worth quoting as a popular denunciation of luxury
You hadn't made your appearance then, and naturally I couldn't do much. But now now if you vill give me de pleesure " "Then an agent is one who can do nothing for you when you want help, but when you don't want it " The man laughed to carry off his audacity. "Veil, you know vhat they say of us agent from agere,'to do, and we're always 'doing. Ha, ha!
Quod cum fecisse Socraten in fidibus audirem, vellem equidem etiam illud, discebant enim fidibus antiqui, sed in litteris certe elaboravi. IX. 27 Ne nunc quidem viris desidero adulescentis, is enim erat locus alter de vitiis senectutis, non plus quam adulescens tauri aut elephanti desiderabam. Quod est, eo decet uti et quidquid agas agere pro viribus.
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