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Updated: June 3, 2025
"They always ask that," she thought; and the momentary reality she had shown hardened into the easy lying of her business: she told this or that the cruel father of fiction, who tried to drive her into marriage with the rich old man; the wicked lover who destroyed trusting innocence; the inevitable facilis descensus Batty at last.
And the design of killing Caesar was as safely communicated to Cimber, though he would often be drunk, as to Cassius, who drank nothing but water. We see our Germans, when drunk as the devil, know their post, remember the word, and keep to their ranks: "Nec facilis victoria de madidis, et Blaesis, atque mero titubantibus."
But we have furnished another instance to be added to the long and melancholy list already existing, to prove that, "facilis descensus Averni, Sed revocare gradum Hoc opus hic labor est," if poetry is not fiction. Success in the Missouri struggle late as it was would have placed the cause of freedom in our country out of the reach of danger from its inexorable foe.
"Poh!" said Jorrocks, "did you ever know a Surrey fox not take to the hills? If he does not, I'll eat him without mint sauce," again harping on the quarter of lamb. Facilis descensus Averni two-thirds of the field went down, leaving Jorrocks, two horse-dealers in scarlet, three chicken-butchers, half a dozen swells in leathers, a whip, and the Yorkshireman on the summit.
There were shadows galore in this narrow gully, and the place itself looked almost as dark as the entrance to the Pit. Cumshaw, who had a classical education and had not been able to forget it, any more than the fact that he had once been a gentleman, murmured under his breath. "What's that?" Bradby asked sharply. Cumshaw repeated his quotation. "Facilis est descensus Averno," he said.
With that reflection, nevertheless, he was about to withdraw his feet from their voluntary dilemma, when the crazy stick suddenly gave way and the partition fell back into its clasp. Dr. Riceabocca was fairly caught, "Facilis descensus sed revocare gradum!" True, his hands were at liberty, but his legs were so long that, being thus fixed, they kept the hands from the rescue; and as Dr. Dr.
What was to be done? We applied for work at several "honourable shops"; but at all we received the same answer. Their trade was decreasing the public ran daily more and more to the cheap show-shops and they themselves were forced, in order to compete with these latter, to put more and more of their work out at contract prices. Facilis descensus Averni!
Facilis descensus Averni! The reverence for truth, and purity, and uprightness that had come to me in the atmosphere of home soon died. I recognised that those virtues belonged to a bygone period, but I was going to be up-to-date, in the forefront: nobody should surpass me!
I tripped lightly down the long northern slope with facilis descensus on my lips, and toiled up again, repeating sed revocare gradum.
She no longer retained her peculiar characters, or produced that appropriate frame of spirit by which her followers had been characterized. Facilis descensus. The example thus set was followed during the present century, and its effect was aided by various causes already pointed out.
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