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The Dean therefore calmly altered all that Wood had written of the Philosopher of Malmesbury, and so maligned Hobbes that the old man, meeting the King in Pall Mall, begged leave to reply in his own defence. Charles allowed the dispute to go on, and Hobbes hit Fell rather hard. The Dean retorted with the famous expression about irritabile illud et vanissimum Malmesburiense animal.
Rousseau, indeed, made some account of penmanship, even made it a source of livelihood, when he copied out the HELOISE for DILETTANTE ladies; and therein showed that strange eccentric prudence which guided him among so many thousand follies and insanities. It would be well for all of the GENUS IRRITABILE thus to add something of skilled labour to intangible brain- work.
She is a fair specimen of the quick, impulsive, frank class of women. She says she belongs to the genus irritabile. She is easily excited to every good emotion, and also to the nobler failings of anger, indignation, and pride. But she is so far above any meanness or littleness, that she don't know them when she sees them.
As it was well understood that the author was never to get beyond that passage until he had acknowledged it absurd and egregiously foolish, anybody who knows anything about the genus irritabile will be certain, that if he lived till "the crack of doom," Don Silva would never have passed the Rubicon.
"Because there are insects in the bed, and they sting you?" If you are thin-skinned, and the reptiles bite, they keep you from sleep." "There are some men who cry out at a flea-bite as loud as if they were torn by a vulture," I growl. "Men of the genus irritabile, my worthy good gentleman! and you are one."
'Irritabile genus poetarum. But one is so accustomed to that among literary men, one never expects them to be like anybody else, and so takes their whims and oddities for granted." "And their sins too, eh?" "Sins? I know of none on his part." "Don't you call temper a sin?"
Yet he was destined to know wedded happiness some years later. And he showed that he could make happy a woman who could understand him. As Mr. Finck comments: "The world is apt to side with the woman in a case like this, especially if her partner is of the irritabile genus, a man of genius.
I knew I was not to bother him with questions, nor look over his shoulder and breathe in his ear they didn't like it, this genus irritabile; but there was nothing about staring in my code of instructions, the point having somehow been overlooked: so, squatting down on the grass, I devoted myself to a passionate absorbing of every detail.
Rousseau, indeed, made some account of penmanship, even made it a source of livelihood, when he copied out the "Héloïse" for dilettante ladies; and therein showed that strange eccentric prudence which guided him among so many thousand follies and insanities. It would be well for all of the genus irritabile thus to add something of skilled labour to intangible brain-work.
He was for 30 years Master of the Charter-house, and set himself against James II. in refusing to admit a Roman Catholic as a Poor Brother. No. 39. Saturday, April 14, 1711. Addison. 'Multa fero, ut placem genus irritabile vatum, Cum scribo. Hor.
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