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"Is that your carriage?... You've got a fine pair of horses. Well, one can't be Evelyn Innes for nothing. But if you're stopping to dinner, you'd better stop the night. I'm giving the 'Missa Brevis' to-morrow. I'm giving it in honour of Monsignor Mostyn. It was he who helped me to overcome Father Gordon." "You shall tell me all about Monsignor after dinner."
When you take this back elevation of the question, the inconsistency becomes apparent. And the longa of Art, viewed in conjunction with the brevis of Life, makes it at least reasonable that when a man has faithfully served one exclusive apprenticeship, he will find it too late in the day to serve a second.
Again turn to heathenism, see the apathetic indolence, the unprogressive torpor, 'Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Sin lames for service of God; it leaves the lower nature free to act, and that freedom paralyses all noble activity. Christianity brings the Energising of the Soul It speaks not merely of vita brevis but of vita brevis and an Eternity which grows out of it.
The obscure passages is often affected, brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio; the desire of expressing perhaps a common idea with sententious and oracular brevity: alas! how fatal has been the imitation of Montesquieu!
It has become known within recent times that Spinoza made a very early sketch of the system developed in the Ethics, the Tractatus Brevis de Deo et Homine ejusque Felicitate, of which a Dutch translation in two copies was discovered, though not the original Latin text. This treatise was published by Böhmer, 1852, in excerpts, and complete by Van Vloten, 1862, and by Schaarschmidt, 1869.
Taken as a whole, the tarsal bones, interarticulating and articulating with the tibia and metatarsal bones form the hock joint and this articulation is analagous to the carpus. As with the carpus, there is less movement in the inferior portion of the joint than in the superior part of the articulation. The extensor brevis is visible in the angle between the long and lateral extensor tendons.
One sentence, which has grown into a maxim for ever repeated, is remarkable for the grossest fallacy: Ars longa, vita brevis . I would fain know, what art, compared with the natural duration of human life from puberty to old age, is long. Art is long; life is short.
'My head's a little bit heated ira furo brevis, and he sneered a solitary laugh, more like himself, and went out into his tiny hall, and opened the door, and stood on the step for air, enjoying the cold wind that played about his temples. Presently he heard the hollow clink of two pair of feet walking toward the village.
But proceed, I beg. I will not interrupt you." "But then, on the other hand, it's not to be denied that Mr Chatterton's method of showing his anger was highly reprehensible." "His anger, Major M'Toddy!" "'Deed ay, just his anger ira furor brevis and it's really very excusable in a proud-spirited young man to resent his being jilted in such a sudden and barefaced manner."
It was the altos that were wrong when you heard the 'Missa Brevis. But you didn't hear they were out of tune. That piano has falsified your ear, but it will come back to you." "Dear father, how funny you are! If nothing were more wrong than my ear ..." They glanced at each other hastily, and to change the subject he mentioned that he had had a letter that morning from Ulick.
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