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MARCELLUM: the captor of Syracuse in 212 B.C. He fell into an ambush in 208 and was killed; Hannibal buried him with military honors. CUIUS INTERITUM: abstract for concrete = quem, post interitum. CRUDELISSIMUS HOSTIS: this, the traditional Roman view of Hannibal, is the reverse of the truth, so far as extant testimony goes. See Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, Bk. III. Ch. 4; Ihne, Hist. of Rome, Bk.
And again, as Dr. Leslie Stephen, Essays on Freethinking and Plain Speaking. Leslie Stephen's work in Macmillan's Magazine, February 1877, Mr. See also Swift's description of the Duchess of Marlborough, in Last four Years of Queen Anne, bk. i. 'Latitudinarian' is not so neutral a term as could be desired.
Take, for example, the case as he states it generally in the De Civitate Dei, Bk. xii. ch. 21.
This was more than one hundred years before Kircher, Leeuwenhoek and others began to use the microscope and to see animalcula, etc., in water, and so give a basis for the "infinitely little" view of the nature of disease germs. And it was a study of the processes of fermentation that led Pasteur to the sure ground on which we now stand. Varro, in De Re Rustica, Bk.
"Cum enim Aquitaniam, Andegaviam, Normanniam, Hiberniam, Valliamque Angli haberent, adhuc sine bellis in Scotia civilibus, nihil in ea profecerunt, et jam mille octingentos et quinquaginta annos in Britannia Scoti steterunt, hodierno die non minus potentes et ad bellum propensi quam unquam fuerint...." Greater Britain, Bk. i. ch. vii.
The Revolution was not caused by theories, however much it may have been excited or guided by them. But both Morris and Jefferson saw the futility of the application of the abstract dogma of equality and the theories of the Social Contract to the reconstruction of government and the reorganization of society in France. By H. A. Taine. Vol. i., bk. ii., chap. ii., sec. iii. Translation.
That works of sanctity do not justify a man, et contra. That at times we all sin against our will, et contra. That sins are not remitted without confession, et contra. That a lie is never permissible, et contra. That a man may destroy himself for some reasons, et contra. That Christians may not for any reason kill a man, et contra. That it is lawful to kill a man, et non. Jerome on Isaiah, Bk.
But politics are studied, as Aristotle said, 'for the sake of action rather than of knowledge, and the student is bound, sooner or later, to ask himself what will be the effect of a change in his science upon that political world in which he lives and works. Ethics, Bk. I. ch. iii. . [Greek: epeidê tò telos [tês politikês] estìn ou gnêsis all
I am SIR, Your most humble Servant. Bedfordshire, Sept.. 1, 1711 Mr. I am one of those whom every Body calls a Pocher, and sometimes go out to course with a Brace of Greyhounds, a Mastiff, and a Spaniel or two; and when I am weary with Coursing, and have killed Hares enough, go to an Ale-house to refresh my self. Yours in Haste, T. Isaac Hedgeditch. Orat. Bk.
Eodem anno combusta est villa de Cupro casualiter." Bk. x, ch. xxii. Account of Harlaw
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