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Every one suspected the worst, but no one really knew what was on foot, for up to this time not a word was heard of suffrage for women. Only one man besides Judge Regis seemed to know what was going forward. This was Magnis Carter, and he refused to tell what he knew.
Both his health and spirits are bad, two very disqualifying circumstances for that employment; yours, I hope, will enable you, some time or other, to go through with it. In all events, aim at it, and if you fail or fall, let it at least be said of you, 'Magnis tamen excidit ausis'. Adieu. LONDON, April 5, 1754
"Hear anything about the will?" When there was no answer to this question, Carter looked up at his wife. "I say did you hear anything about Sarah Mosely's will?" Still no reply. "Then you did hear something? What was it?" His manner had become suddenly serious. "You'll know soon enough, Magnis." "Can't you tell me?" "No, I cannot!" "Secrets from your husband?"
Avia Pieridum peragro loca nullius ante Trita solo; iuvat integros accedere fontes Atque haurire, iuvatque novos decerpere flores Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam Unde prius milli velarint tempora Musae: Primum quod magnis doceo de rebus, et artis Religionum animum nodis exsolvere pergo, Deinde quod obscura de re tam lucida pango Carmina, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore.
A surprise of unexpected joy does likewise often produce the same effect: "Ut me conspexit venientem, et Troja circum Arma amens vidit, magnis exterrita monstris, Diriguit visu in medio, calor ossa reliquit, Labitur, et longo vix tandem tempore fatur."
As for my own private opinion, I own I rather wish than hope success. However, should our expedition fail, 'Magnis tamen excidit ausis', and that will be better than our late languid manner of making war.
My Father's acts of supplication, as I used to witness them at night, when I was supposed to be asleep, were accompanied by stretchings out of the hands, by crackings of the joints of the fingers, by deep breathings, by murmurous sounds which seemed just breaking out of silence, like Virgil's bees out of the hive, 'magnis clamoribus'. My Father fortified his religious life by prayer as an athlete does his physical life by lung-gymnastics and vigorous rubbings.
Magnis Carter as editor of the Signal was naturally loquacious, especially in print. He published the news with all the fluency which liquefied language permits. It was only in this manner that he was able to fill the few inside columns of the Signal. The outside pages were "patented," of course, and contained matter taken from other papers and magazines.
So Diodorus, speaking to the same purpose, ventures no farther than to say that in the mountains of Helicon there grows a certain weed which bears a flower of so damned a scent as to poison those who offer to smell it. Lucretius gives exactly the same relation. "Est etiam in magnis Heliconis montibus arbos, Floris odore hominem retro consueta necare." Lib. 6.
It is, indeed, with fear and trembling that the Author undertakes such a great and important task as this. If he fail, however, he may well say "Quem si non tenuifc, tamon magnis excidit ausis."
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