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A judge who grants a judicial separation is deciding that a marriage has ceased to be real or valid, and he divorces the couple a mensa et thoro, though leaving them without the power to marry again. He actually "puts them asunder" more rigidly than a divorced couple.
Re-enter W. Beverley through trap-door." "Talking about trap-doors " "Don't," said Antony, getting up. "Some talk of Alexander and some of Hercules, but nobody talks about what's the Latin for trap-door? Mensa a table; you might get it from that. Well, Mr. Beverley," and he slapped him heartily on the back as he went past him "I shall see you later.
She had long been living with the Duke, but in 1769 she obtained a divorce a mensa et thoro, which she believed erroneously annulled the marriage. The Duke died in 1773, when all his titles became extinct. His Duchess was in the following year tried before the House of Lords for bigamy, found guilty, but, pleading benefit of peerage, was discharged.
So, after three lessons in Latin grammar, one might correct a fellow student, whose knowledge did not embrace the ablative of "mensa." "Picture what picture?" Katharine asked. "Oh, at home, you mean that Sunday afternoon. Was it the day Mr. Fortescue came? Yes, I think I remembered it."
As the lawyers say, is it a 'vinculo', or only a 'mensa et thoro? And if this divorce is permanent, is it a good thing for literature or the stage? Is the present condition of the stage a degeneration, as some say, or is it a natural evolution of an art independent of literature?
So he pulled out two three-legged stools, and very soon I was trying to fix my wandering wits and decline mensa. After this I came on every half-holiday for nearly a year. Of course the tenant of the glass-house was a nine days' wonder in the town.
J 's gone to the Commons to Jenner swears she'll have a diworce, a mensa et thorax, I think she calls it wish she may get it sick of hearing her talk about it Jenner's the only man wot puts up with her, and that's because he gets his fees. Batsay, my dear! you may damp another towel, and then get me something to cool my coppers all in a glow, I declare complete fever.
As the lawyers say, is it a 'vinculo', or only a 'mensa et thoro? And if this divorce is permanent, is it a good thing for literature or the stage? Is the present condition of the stage a degeneration, as some say, or is it a natural evolution of an art independent of literature?
He plunged into the declination of mensa with the fervour of a convert. He translated the text-book's colomba est timida with a sense of performing a sacred rite. Days went by before he dared to admit to himself that his interest was waning, Even then he went on studying without a thought of rebellion. The habit of application had become deeply rooted.
Unum opus, et requiem pariter disponimus ambo: Atque verecunda laxamus feria mensa. Sat. v. Can I forget how many a summer's day, Spent in your converse, stole, unmarked, away? Or how, while listening with increased delight, I snatched from feasts the earlier hours of night? Gifford.
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