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'Nec quaerere nec spernere honores oportet.* It is good to enjoy the blessings of fortune: it is better to submit without a pang to their loss. You remember, when you left me, I was preparing myself for this stroke: believe me, I am now prepared." * "It becomes us neither to court nor to despise honours." And in truth Bolingbroke bore the ingratitude of the Chevalier well.
Maii, et se fide et sacramento non fracto ibi in unam et simul confœderare, et consolidare sicut conjurati fratres ad defendendum regnum contra alienigenas et contra inimicos, unâ cum domino suo rege, et terras et honores illius omni fidelitate cum eo servare, et quod illi ut domino suo regi intra et extra regnum universum Britanniæ fideles esse volunt LL. Ed. Conf. c. 35.
His ergo hominibus dum vivunt, magnos exhibent honores; mortuis vero vel templa vel monumenta extruunt amplissima, eosque contingere ac sepelire maximae fortunae ducunt loco. Audivimus haec dicta et dicenda per interpretem a Mucrelo nostro.
"A! Fredome is a noble thing: Fredome mayse man to haif liking." BARBOUR, The Bruce. "Non enim propter gloriam divitas aut honores pugnanus, sed propter libertatem solummodo, quam nemo bonus nisi cum vita amittit. " Lit. Comit. et Baron. Scotoe ad Pap. "When corn ripeth in every steade Mury it is in feld and hyde; Sinne hit is and shame to chyde.
They are the commonalty of language, private, proletarian words, who do the work, "dum alteri tulerunt honores." They come to us from all handiworks and callings, where you will always find them at their posts. Sharp, energetic, incisive, they do the hard labor of speech, that of carrying heavy loads of thought and shaping new ideas.
We shall remember how even Virgil had to write: 'Hos ego versiculos scripsi: tulit alter honores! And the veriest bumpkin knows the force of the adage about one's shaking the tree, for another to gather up the fruit. But Virgil was patient, and did well at the last; though the chronicles do not tell us how many pears ever came to the teeth of him that did the tree-shaking.
"Rex stetit ante fores, jurans prius urbis honores, Post homo fit papae, sumit quo dante coronam." Lothair, however, never saw this record of his visit.
It was only an animus irritandi , which, happening to be exercised upon a genus irritabile, produced unexpected violence of resentment. Their irritability arose only from an opinion of their own importance, and their delight in their new exaltation. What might have been borne by a Procurator could not be borne by a Solicitor. Your Lordships well know, that honores mutant mores.
He then, under pretence of adding some new ornament, still kept them from me; and at length presented them himself. 'Ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores. This gave him an introduction upon a certain footing to the Hotel de Luxembourg.
Mortoos en iaceo, morte extingovinior honores; At virtus, morte nescia, morte viret. A voussure ornamented with sculptures, as remarkable for their good taste as for the richness of their ornaments, supports an attic, where we find the statues of the twelve apostles, two and two, in elegant niches separated by pilasters.
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