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"I would venture," said the President, "to remind your Highness that you are yourself a bachelor." "Laws," said Duke Deodonato, "do not bind the Crown unless the Crown is expressly mentioned." "True, sir; but I humbly conceive that it would be pessimi exempli " "You are right; I will marry myself," said Duke Deodonato. "But, sir, three weeks!
"I would venture," said the President, "to remind your Highness that you are yourself a bachelor." "Laws," said Duke Deodonato, "do not bind the Crown unless the Crown is expressly mentioned." "True, sir; but I humbly conceive that it would be pessimi exempli " "You are right; I will marry myself," said Duke Deodonato. "But, sir, three weeks!
"The interest of our client goes certainly before all, but the world does not come to an end with James Stewart." Whereat he cocked his eye. "I might condescend, exempli gratia, upon a Mr. George Brown, a Mr. Thomas Miller, and a Mr. David Balfour. Mr.
Possibly the common form of instruction to little girls, dwelling on their exclusion by statute or usage from advantages enjoyed by little boys, may have had its weight. Little girls, exempli gratia, may not lie on their backs and kick their legs up. Little boys are at liberty to do so, subject to unimportant reservations, limiting the area at their disposal for the practice.
It is evident that no one person can be expected to supply a full list of such words, but on the other hand there must be very many of our members who could contribute one or two; and such contributions are invited. Exempli gratia. Here are two words with very different titles and claims, nesh and hyppish.
Exempli gratia: One night, having raised my window-curtain to look over a moonlit snowy landscape, as I pulled it down the lines of a popular comic song flashed across me. Fatal error! The train instantly took it up, and during the rest of the night I was haunted by this awful refrain: "Pull down the bel-lind, pull down the bel-lind; simebody's klink klink, O don't be shoo-shoo!"
"Sister Grizel, this is abominable," interrupted Oldbuck; "I vow to Heaven ye might have raised the ghosts of every abbot of Trotcosey, since the days of Waldimir, in the time you have been detailing the introduction to this single spectre. Learn to be succinct in your narrative. Imitate the concise style of old Aubrey, an experienced ghost-seer, who entered his memoranda on these subjects in a terse business-like manner; exempli gratia At Cirencester, 5th March, 1670, was an apparition. Being demanded whether good spirit or bad, made no answer, but instantly disappeared with a curious perfume, and a melodious twang' Vide his Miscellanies, p. eighteen, as well as I can remember, and near the middle of the page."
Lex quamvis ratio Ciceroni summa vocetur, Et bene laudetur lex que ratione probatur, Invenies inter legistas raro logistas: Moris et exempli leges sunt juraque templi. But this fashion we leave to them who will have all their anomalies taken for analogies. It becometh not the spouse of Christ, endued with the spirit of meekness, to command anything imperiously, and without a reason given.
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