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It was foredoomed to failure, because it depended upon the iniquity known as "quick returns." De mortuis nil nisi bonum. That a one-act play is fully able to create a veritable sensation, as keen as any that a five-act drama might evoke, was instanced at the Manhattan Theater, when Mrs. Fiske produced a little drama, written by herself, and called "A Light from St. Agnes."
Surface, and gave Sharlee's hands a desperate squeeze. "But my " "Well, we're transacting some important business down here. Never should have found you but for Mr. Dayne's happening along. Did you know that West had resigned?" "No, has he? But I started " "Peace to his ashes. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. The directors are meeting now to elect his successor. Only one name has been mentioned.
Lord Westbury may have quoted it from Chesterfield or hit on it by accident, or the old story may have been assigned to him. In the same way Mr. Rutherford may have had his dream or the following tale of St. Except for the piece of Portuguese gold St. Augustine practically tells the anecdote in his De Cura pro Mortuis Habenda, adding the acute reflection which follows.
Is it given out of compliment to the dead or the living?" "Nay," said the Deacon, "I don't see how it could be much of a compliment to the dead." "Except upon the principle, De mortuis nil, nisi bone 'em!" suggested Miss Hurribattle, with such perfect gravity that neither Miss Prowley nor the clergyman suspected the jocular atrocity that was hidden in her speech.
We may imagine that, had it not pleased him to be generous had he not been governed by that feeling of "De mortuis nil nisi bonum," which is now common to us all he might have said much that was not good. Cato had endeavored to live up to the austerest rules of the Stoics a mode of living altogether antagonistic to Cicero's views.
"I know your secretary," he said, as he got into the cab. "A cunning rogue and a beast the kingdom of heaven be his such as you don't often come across." "Come, Grisha, it is not the thing to abuse the dead." "Of course not, aut mortuis nihil bene, but still he was a rascal." The friends overtook the funeral procession and joined it.
"I never claimed either for him," the first eagerly broke in. "Only I didn't want to deny the poor fellow that bit of piety which is demanded. De mortuis " And both voices withdraw into the distance. "O you grave-robbers!" I cried and shook my fist after them. "Now I know what your friendship was worth.
Roger wouldn't believe me when I told him about it afterwards. He said I was drunk myself and that he heard me tumbling up the stairs to bed. Which is a lie. I did see it, and it was drunk. I heard it hiccough! I wouldn't say it was drunk if it wasn't. De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Quinny, and it would be a very dirty trick to slander a poor bogey that can't defend itself.
"It is related of the Ancient Egyptians that they ever had a corpse among the guests at their feasts." "Were their cooks so bad?" said Alison. "To remind them that all men are mortal. Now you see why we keep Harry." "I wonder if he looked as happy when he was alive," said Alison, surveying his wooden face. "De mortuis nil nisi bonum," Geoffrey laughed. "No jests about the dead, Alison.
However, if, like the poor devil of a painter, we must conform to the pious canon, 'De mortuis, &c., which I own has a spice of piety in the sound of it, and be obliged to paint both our angels and our devils out of the same pot, I then infer that our Sydenhams and our Sangrados, our Lucretias and our Messalinas, our Somersets and our Bolingbrokes, are alike entitled to statues, and all the historians or satirists who have said otherwise since they departed this life, from Sallust to S e, are guilty of the crimes you charge me with, 'cowardice and injustice. But why cowardice?
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