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He was successively an assistant-master at Harrow and headmaster of schools at Colchester and Norwich, and having taken orders, finally settled down at Hatton, Warwickshire, where he took private pupils. He was undoubtedly a great Latinist, but he has left no work to account for the immense reputation for ability which he enjoyed during his life.

"Oh!" exclaimed the priest, recognizing him when he approached "you are Dan Fagan's son, and designed for the church yourself; you are a good Latinist, for I remember examining you in Erasmus about two years ago Quomodo sehabet corpus tuum, charum lignum sacredotis"

Like Leo XIII and doubtless in a spirit of rivalry he courted the reputation of being a very distinguished Latinist, and professed a special and boundless affection for Virgil. "I know, I know," he exclaimed, "I remember your page on the return of spring, which consoles the poor whom winter has frozen. Oh! I read it three times over!

The adoption of a universal scholars' tongue would do much to remove the obstacle. When these Southern races coalesce to form the great alliance which I foresee, when the Mediterranean basin is once more the centre of human activity as it deserves to be, some such plan will doubtless be adopted." "Your notion would suit me down to the ground," said the bishop, who was a good Latinist.

I was not convinced, yet I was not willing to try the experiment in any risky way that is, in a way that might cripple the strength and efficiency of the Expedition. I was about at my wits' end when it occurred to me to try it on the Latinist. He was called in. But he declined, on the plea of inexperience, diffidence in public, lack of curiosity, and I didn't know what all.

We are all followers of Christ, and to His glory we all drudge, each for his part. But he knows that now the question is: for or against him! From the brilliant latinist and the man of wit of his prime he had become the international pivot on which the civilization of his age hinged. He could not help beginning to feel himself the brain, the heart and the conscience of his times.

And for the next half-hour he was reciting cases in proof of his sagacity. "Wonderful!" chimed in McLean. "I see it is evident you can tell me how Tommy Sandys will do," but at that Cathro's rush of words again subsided into a dribble. "He's the worst Latinist that ever had the impudence to think of bursaries," he groaned.

Of Shenstone he speaks as "the dear author of the Schoolmistress;" and so on from time to time, as occasion prompts, of Bunyan, Isaac Walton, and Jeremy Taylor, and Fuller, and Sir Philip Sidney, and others, in affectionate terms. These always relate to English authors. Lamb, although a good Latinist, had not much of that which ordinarily passes under the name of Learning.

I was not convinced, yet I was not willing to try the experiment in any risky way that is, in a way that might cripple the strength and efficiency of the Expedition. I was about at my wits' end when it occurred to me to try it on the Latinist. He was called in. But he declined, on the plea of inexperience, diffidence in public, lack of curiosity, and I didn't know what all.

This was not a serious matter to me, for a Latinist's duties are as well performed on crutches as otherwise but the fact remained that if the Latinist had not happened to be in the way a mule would have got that load. That would have been quite another matter, for when it comes down to a question of value there is a palpable difference between a Latinist and a mule.

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