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The volume slipped into his hands and he glanced at it, frowning impatiently. "Poor little book. I ought to have burned it years ago; and I ought to have learned by this time to keep my mouth shut. They've always said I look like an Indian, but an Indian never tells anything. I've told just one story too many. Mea maxima culpa!"
The schoolmen also give liberty to a private man, of proving the statutes of the church, and neglecting the same, if he see cause for doing so, Si causa fit evidens, per se ipsum licite potest homo statuti observantiam praeterire. If any be not able to examine and try all such things, debebant omnes posse, Dei jussu: Deficiunt ergo sua culpa, saith Parcus.
The original form of which mea culpa seized the worthy manager with such an irresistibly ludicrous effect that he left the poor, guilty authoress without being able to address a syllable to her, lest he should explode in peals of laughter instead of decent words of condolence.
Part of the ritual of confession is this: The penitent repeats a formula of three sentences: "Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa," striking the breast with the closed hand as each sentence is uttered. On this occasion the words of the penitent, an old countrywoman, could be distinctly heard outside the cubicle. They were: "Mea culpa, mea oh! dammit I've bruk me poipe."
And from out all their mouths, vaguely stammered in every language, came the dismal utterances of the catacombs. "Ainsi soit-il!" "Mea culpa!" "Asi sea!" "Aro raï!" "Amen!" It was as though the sombre voices of Babel were scattered through the shadows as Heaven uttered its awful refusal to hear them.
In culpa est animus, qui se non effugit usquam . Please yourself with your wife and children, and studies, and practice. 'I have sent a petition from Lucy Porter, with which I leave it to your discretion whether it is proper to comply. Return me her letter, which I have sent, that you may know the whole case, and not be seduced to any thing that you may afterwards repent.
Daughter, in almost every tale of sin and suffering you will find that there has always been sin on one side and suffering on the other; but in this story all sinned deeply, all suffered fearfully!" "Except yourself, sweet mother. You never sinned," said Salome, taking the thin, pale hand of the lady and pressing it to her lips. "Mea culpa!
I did not know before that Saul was among the prophets. My poor husband suffered very much from the constraint imposed on him by my position, and did, for the first time in his life, for my sake do that in secret which he could not speak upon the housetops. Mea culpa all of it!
Perceiving the danger I was in, I wiped my finger across the wet nose of the donkey, crossed myself, and then went down on my knees to the priests, crying out Culpa mea, as all good Catholics do though 'twas no fault of mine, as I said before, for I tried all I could, and tugged at the brute till my strength was gone.
"Well, then, know that thy brother Sybrandt lies in my charge with a broken back, fruit of thy curse." "Mea culpa! mea culpa!" "He is very penitent; be yourself and forgive him this night." "I have forgiven him long ago." "Think you he can believe that from any mouth but yours? Come! he is but about two butts' length hence." "So near? Why, where?" "At Gouda manse. I took him there yestreen.
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