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Now I must array myself gorgeously like a Staffordshire miner, and seek the salons of the West. The great desideratum, it still appears to me, is that some man with a name in science should examine the matter, honestly resolving to endorse the facts if true, but to expose them mercilessly if there be a loophole for suspicion. Omne ignotum pro magnifico habetur.
And there was the further, and not altogether unreal, ground of confidence, that the examiner himself might be uneasily conscious of the ever-present possibility that some hidden Hebrew snag might rudely jag a hole in his own vessel while sailing the mare ignotum of oriental literature.
"A thing of price is man," wrote Synesius about 410 A.D., "because for him Christ died." The two things go together Jesus' death and Jesus' Theocentric thought of man. It is a familiar criticism of idealists and other young hearts, that it is easy to idealize what one does not know. "Omne ignotum pro magnifico" is the old epigram of Tacitus.
It was very dark all around her: the noises of distant outcries reached her dimly. 'Vix ignotum, she repeated mechanically, and then the words: 'Surely it were better to pass from the world of unjust judges to sit with the mighty.... A great burst of sound roamed, vivid and alive, from the distant stairhead. She started and cried out.
Oceanus==terrae, quas Oceanus alluit; and belluae==lutrae, mustelae, erminiae, etc., so K. But Gr. says belluae cannot mean such small creatures, and agrees with Lipsius, in understanding by it marine animals, seadogs, seals, &c. Exterior Oceanus==Oceanus extra orbem Romanum, further explained by ignotum mare. Cf. note, 2: adversus Oceanus. Habitus, here==vestitus; in Sec. 4.==forma corporis.
JOHNSON. 'Were I a country gentleman, I should not be very hospitable, I should not have crowds in my house . BOSWELL. 'Sir Alexander Dick tells me, that he remembers having a thousand people in a year to dine at his house: that is, reckoning each person as one, each time that he dined there. JOHNSON. 'That, Sir, is about three a day. BOSWELL. 'How your statement lessens the idea. JOHNSON. 'That, Sir, is the good of counting . It brings every thing to a certainty, which before floated in the mind indefinitely. BOSWELL. 'But Omne ignotum pro magnifico est : one is sorry to have this diminished. JOHNSON. 'Sir, you should not allow yourself to be delighted with errour. BOSWELL. 'Three a day seem but few. JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir, he who entertains three a day, does very liberally.
Mulrooney, taking "omne ignotum pro horribili," became perfectly beside herself at the unlucky phrase. "I'm what? repate it av ye dare, and I'll tear yer eyes out? Ye dirty bla guard, to be lying there at yer ease under the blankets, grinning at me. What's your thrade answer me that av it isn't to wait on the ladies, eh?" "Oh, the woman must be mad," said Sir Stewart.
CHILLINGLY GORDON. "I don't see the necessity for that, Sir Peter. We may take the existence of the Baby for granted." Mr. MIVERS. "It is an advantage to the reputation of Sir Peter's work to preserve the incognito. Omne ignotum pro magnifico." THE REV. JOHN STALWORTH CHILLINGLY. "I don't approve the cynical levity of such remarks.
Not that he had done amiss, trust him! but then he knew the amount of his own hoard to a farthing, while of hers he was entirely ignorant; so, on the principle of 'omne ignotum pro mirifico, he pondered on its vastness with indefinite amazement, although probably it might not reach the quarter of his own.
Reviewers are men of like passions with ourselves, and with them as with everyone else omne ignotum pro magnifico. The book was really an able one and abounded with humour, just satire, and good sense. It struck a new note and the speculation which for some time was rife concerning its authorship made many turn to it who would never have looked at it otherwise.
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