defessa

Updated: July 7, 2026

And in strict conformity with these obvious distinctions, it will be found that, so far as we are able to reduce scientific men of anti-Catholic opinions to the type of the imaginary bookworm to whom I have been alluding, we do actually use them in our schools. Vix defessa senem passus componere membra, Cum clamore ruit magno, manicisque jacentem Occupat.

John Henry Newman - The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine: Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin