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If it continues, eventually every man of rank will be dubbed by his own countrymen either a knave or a fool. January 31st. Finita la Comedia. Let fall the curtain. The siege of Paris is over; the last balloon has carried our letters through the clouds; the last shot has been fired.
This was how the question stood until 1870. But it stands in that position no longer; for the Church has now spoken Roma locuta est, causa finita. Hence, no Catholic can now deny or call into question the great prerogative of the Vicar of Christ, without suffering shipwreck of the faith.
The ceremonies connected with the obsequies of Pope Innocent VIII lasted as prescribed nine days; they were concluded on August 5, 1492, and, says Infessura naively, "sic finita fuit eius memoria." The Sacred College consisted at the time of twenty-seven cardinals, four of whom were absent at distant sees and unable to reach Rome in time for the immuring of the Conclave.
His hand gripped her own feelingly for a moment and he nodded his head but, in words, he said only: "Yes it would." "I wish I knew her. I wish I could set you straight with her," she told him and after that she rose. "At all events it was worth the experiment," she commented. "Well, 'la comedia e finita. I think now I'll go to bed."
The Potsdam fire-engines would very likely be summoned." "Oh! That too! Well! La comedia e finita! Good-night!" "Sic transit gloria mundi! Sleep well!" Voltaire slept during the night, but not well, and was awakened on the following morning by the sound of salutes fired at Potsdam; from which he concluded that the King was holding manoeuvres.
Thus we attain three clear and distinct ideas, three eternal verities: substantia infinita sive deus, substantia finita cogitans sive mens, substantia extensa sive corpus. By this abrupt contraposition of body and mind as reciprocally independent substances, Descartes founded that dualism, as whose typical representative he is still honored or opposed.
The high gods have granted to their troupe of mimes one boon. Each has it in his power to make the final exit at any moment. For myself I feel that moment is at hand. One last soliloquy, and then like the pagliacco I can say with a sigh, "La commedia e finita the play is played out," and the rest will be silence. At all events I will tell my own story.
Another forty-eight hours, and she'll expect me to drive round London and look at dresses with her. . . ." But if his petulance had made her cry again . . . Eric hunted for a pen and, without involving himself in delicacies of address, wrote "I am not discourteous by preference, but you drive me to it. La comedia è finita."
There is not room on the earth for both of us"... I fired. When the smoke had cleared away, Grushnitski was not to be seen on the ledge. Only a slender column of dust was still eddying at the edge of the precipice. There was a simultaneous cry from the rest. "Finita la commedia!" I said to the doctor. He made no answer, and turned away with horror.
Illustrissima Serenita sta finita, et puede andar en casa." "Your serenity is now ended; and now you may be going home," and so claps on his hat. Sir Win. Rider told the first of his own knowledge; and both he and Sir W. Batten confirm the last. Hence home and to read, and so to bed, but very late again. To church, where a stranger made a very good sermon.
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