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Or should they, in the enumeration of population, be reckoned, in accordance with the civil law, as pro nullis, pro mortuis, pro quadrupedibus, and therefore not to be counted at all? Or should they, as those who owned them insisted, be counted, if included in the basis of taxation, as fractions of persons only?
De mortuis nil nisi bonum is a traditional and sacred duty to departed workers; but does it exhaust human charity, or require contemptuous crusade against equally honest, living toilers? Are antiquity and foreign birthplace imperatively essential factors in the award of praise for even faithful and noble work?
"De mortuis nil nisi bonum," said Cyprian, "let the dead repose in peace." Just then the carriage which Lothair had sent for on account of Theodore's still invalid condition, came rolling up, and the friends went back in it to town.
Clinton," replied the other, with a shrug, "de mortuis nil nisi bonum; but as touching beauty, in what sense do you ask my opinion?" "Whether now, for instance, would your learned taste prefer Miss Cavanagh or Miss Dora M'Mahon? and give your reasons." "Taste, Mr. Hycy, is never, or at least seldom, guided by reason; the question, however, is a fair one."
Jasper colored, but kept his temper. Aggie, however, spoke up indignantly. "Mr. McCutcheon's car was a very fine racer when it was built." "De mortuis nil nisi bonum," remarked Mr. Ellis, and getting up said good-night. Jasper sat on the steps and watched him disappear. Then he turned to Tish.
His two brothers got themselves speared served them right. They went in for robbing Dyak graves. Gold ornaments in them you know. Serve them right. But he kept respectable and got on. Aye! Everybody got on but I. And all through that scoundrel who brought the Arabs here." "De mortuis nil ni . . . num," muttered Almayer's guest.
This sounds almost too horrible to be true; but I was careful to ascertain that the eldest girl, though in domestic service in Greenwich, slept at the "home." More horrible still is the fact disclosed, that they had a second room, yet had not the decency to use it. "De mortuis nil nisi bonum." They lived according to their light; but they had very little light, literally or figuratively.
Why didn't she think about Brayfield? She turned round and fixed her distressed eyes on him. "Which is best, to be charitable or to be truthful?" she said, without any vibration of excitement. "De Mortuis it's a kindly saying. A true Turk, one of the old Osmanlis, might have said it. If you hadn't brought me that letter and the message I should probably never have mentioned Brayfield to you again.
Walters, whose legal training had imbued in him a respect for Latin tags, subscribed to the adage, de mortuis nil nisi bonum.
As to Metellus de mortuis, etc. yet there has been no citizen die these many years past who . Well, I am willing to warrant your getting the money: for what have you to fear, whomsoever he made his heir, unless it were Publius?
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