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They, at least, foresaw the peril that was overhanging Oxford, and they gave such warning as they could. Let that be remembered to their credit. Let that incline us to think more gently of them. In their lives we know, they were infamous, some of them "nihil non commiserunt stupri, saevitiae, impietatis." But are they too little punished, after all?
Gratis anhelans, multa agendo, nihil agens. Upon entering the town, the streets displayed all the bustle and excitement which the approaching meeting was eminently calculated to create in a place ordinarily quiescent and undisturbed: groups of men were scattered in different parts, conversing with great eagerness; while here and there some Demosthenes of the town, impatient of the coming strife, was haranguing his little knot of admiring friends, and preparing his oratorical organs by petty skirmishing for the grand battle of the morrow.
Tu nihil invita facies pingesve Minerva. It would not lower a mechanical dog's efforts, but it must yours. He was unhappy. He heard only one side for days; that side was recommended by his duty, filial affection, and diffidence of his own good sense. He was brought to see his proceedings were eccentric, and that it is destruction to be eccentric.
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