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Thus, in the science of history, the preservation of our race in Noah's ark is an historical fact, which history never would arrive at without revelation. The transition from belief on the purely internal ground of personal assent to belief on the purely external ground of Church authority is certainly abrupt and hard to explain; but Newman makes it habitually, without any consciousness of a salto mortale.
The saying went, that owing to the multitude of churches at Ravenna every day was there a saint's day. A poor jeu de mots, mortaio, mortar, being substituted for mortale. I.e. argued preposterously, the goat being the last animal to carry a rider comfortably downhill.
The XII statute remember to observe For all the paine thou hast for love and wo All is too lite her mercie to deserve Thou musten then thinke wher er thou ride or go And mortale wounds suffre thou also All for her sake, and thinke it well besette Upon thy love, for it maie not be bette. Chaucer's 'Court of Love'
"sub pectore forti Vivit adhuc patriae pietas; stimulatque sepultum Libertatis amor: pondus mortale necari Si potuit, veteres animo post funera vires Mansere, et prisci vivit non immemor aevi." They are the words of old Mantuan. Montesinos. I am to understand, then, that you cannot see into the ways of futurity? Sir Thomas More.
Stroking his knees, he gave a cough, laughed, and said: "It's a comedy, it really is. . . . I look and I cannot believe my eyes: for what devilry has destiny driven us to this accursed inn? What did she want to show by it? Life sometimes performs such 'salto mortale, one can only stare and blink in amazement. Have you come from far, Madam?" "No, not from far," answered the young lady.
"It must have belonged to the coffin you seek." "What says it?" "Ye mortale remains of Marmaduke Bannerworth, Yeoman. God reste his soule. "It is the plate belonging to his coffin," said Henry, "and now our search is fruitless." "It is so, indeed," exclaimed George, "for how can we tell to which of the coffins that have lost the plates this one really belongs?"
You've heard no doubt the song that the gloating 'Greys' made to immortalize a run down the field that he made on another famous occasion: & never mortale Manne shall knowe How ye Thynge came about But from yt close-pressed Masse of Menne Ye Feet Balle poppeth oute.
I agree, and there are still sadder things; but I shall answer you: Sors tua mortalis, non est mortale quod optas. Ovid, Met. "You have a man's fate, and a god's desires." Once again, it seems that the nature of every principle of things is the Creator's secret.
How would she be able to clear with a salto mortale not only her own obstacles, but at the same time the obstacles of modern nations, obstacles which she must actually feel to mean a liberation to be striven for from her real obstacles? A radical revolution can only be the revolution of radical needs, whose preliminary conditions appear to be wholly lacking.
Cave ne cadas! I'm not going to play monte with you any more, and we'll not set up a bank together. You deny the omnipotence of God, peccatum mortale! You deny the existence of the Holy Trinity three are one and one is three! Take care! You indirectly deny that two natures, two understandings, and two wills can have only one memory! Be careful! Quicumque non crederit anathema sit!"
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