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But the purpose of Ovid's visit appears, from his own acknowledgment, to have been not entirely free from blame, though of what nature we know not: Non equidem totam possum defendere culpam: Sed partem nostri criminis error habet. De Trist. Lib. iii. Eleg. 5. I know I cannot wholly be defended, Yet plead 'twas chance, no ill was then intended. Catlin.
So far are we governed by the catenations of motions, which affect both the body and the mind of man, and which begin with our irritability, and end with it. Haud equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illis Ingenium, aut rerum fato prudentia major. Virg. Georg. I. Instinctive actions defined. Of connate passions. II. Of the sensations and motions of the foetus in the womb.
"'In after-life, when the judgment corrects the extravagance of early impressions, I saw him on several occasions, but saw nothing to admonish me of any extravagance in my early impressions. "Credo equidem, nee vana fides, genus esse Deorum." ""Nil desperandum, Teucro duce, et auspice Teucro."
Burke with vehemence denied the success: the performance, he said, had the pomp, but not the force of the original; the nodosities of the oak, but not its strength; the contortions of the sibyl, but none of the inspiration. When Burke showed the old sage of Bolt Court over his fine house and pleasant gardens at Beaconsfield, Non invideo equidem, Johnson said, with placid good-will, miror magis.
Non equidem hoc studeo bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat, dare pondus idonea fumo. PERS., Sat. v. 19. 'Tis not indeed my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise. There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.
He was a scholar and man of the world, who had a retentive memory, and, says Bayle, 'could say a thousand good things in a thousand pleasing ways. No. 61. Thursday, May 10, 1711. Addison. 'Non equidem studeo, bullalis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescal, dare pondus idonea fumo. Pers.
Thomas Leland, told Mr. Courtenay, that when Mr. Edmund Burke shewed Johnson his fine house and lands near Beaconsfield, Johnson coolly said, 'Non equidem invideo; miror magis.*
Again, in the Protemium of the "Novum Organum": "There was but one course left, to commence a total reconstruction of sciences, arts, and all human knowledge, raised upon the proper foundations." And in the Dedication to the same work, he says, with characteristic confidence, "Equidem Organum praebui," "I have provided the Instrument."
Equidem jam effeci ut maxime plebs et qui antea noster fuit populus vester esset." Caelius to Cicero, Ad Fam., viii. 71. Caesar says nothing of his putting to sea in a boat, meaning to go over in person, and being driven back by the weather. The story is probably no more than one of the picturesque additions to reality made by men who find truth too tame for them.
... Equidem credo, quia sit Divinitus illis Ingenium ... Virg. My Friend Sir Roger is very often merry with me upon my passing so much of my Time among his Poultry: He has caught me twice or thrice looking after a Bird's Nest, and several times sitting an Hour or two together near an Hen and Chickens.
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