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And yet the story is instructive. Mutato nomine, de te Fabula narratur. We see our natural faces in the glass of history, and turn away and straightway forget what manner of men we are. The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. From St. Anselm to Mr. Emerson, from the 'Acta Sanctorum' to the 'Representative Men; so far in seven centuries we have travelled.
Sure they have their chaplains to pray for them but my soul to glory those that pray by proxy will go to heaven by proxy and so they ought. Eh faith I'm peppering you." "De te fabula narratur. Don't you live by praying for others? What are your masses?" "Fabula, why, a fibula for your fabula, man alive. What is your new fangled creed, but a fabula from the beginning?"
The story was now left for me to tell, not for the Lady Hasselton; and that makes all the difference in the manner a story is told, me narrante, it is de te fabula narratur; te narrante, and it is de me fabula, etc. Poor Lady Hasselton! to be laughed at, and have Tarleton for a lover!
That censor and reprover of others, Cato, was reproached that he was a hard drinker: "Narratur et prisci Catonis Saepe mero caluisse virtus." Horace, Od., xxi. 3, 11. Cyrus, that so renowned king, amongst the other qualities by which he claimed to be preferred before his brother Artaxerxes, urged this excellence, that he could drink a great deal more than he.
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