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Nor would the exemption of an editio princeps from everyday sordid work restrain his sacrilegious hands. If it should contain the thing he desires to see, what is to hinder him from wrenching out the twentieth volume of your Encyclopédie Méthodique, or Ersch und Gruber, leaving a vacancy like an extracted front tooth, and carrying it off to his den of Cacus?
It finally passed through Congress on the last night of this session by a single vote, and was ratified by only three States! As soon as Lincoln was inaugurated there was no more talk of compromise, and Seward was firmness itself. These facts tell their own tale. After Seward and Chase had left the Senate Sumner was facile princeps.
It was this instrument which gave me the idea of the phonograph while working on the telephone." Arrived in Cincinnati, where he got employment in the Western Union commercial telegraph department at a wage of $60 per month, Edison made the acquaintance of Milton F. Adams, already referred to as facile princeps the typical telegrapher in all his more sociable and brilliant aspects.
"I am Rene Descartes," replied the soldier, gently. "How, sir!" cried De Thou. "Are you so happy as to be related to the author of the Princeps?" "I am the author of that work," replied Rene. "You, sir! but still pardon me but are you not a military man?" stammered out the counsellor, in amazement. "Well, what has the habit of the body to do with the thought? Yes, I wear the sword.
He gained the Pureell challenge-cup at Belfast for an Angus ox, which was kept by the Prince Consort at the Royal Farm, Windsor, till his death, when his age was seventeen. Mr Watson bred many celebrated bulls, but "Old Jock" was facile princeps. He carried everything before him, and in 1844 was sold for a hundred guineas a large price at that time.
This resulted in another quarrel with her husband, who had issued the command from Luichart but it was their last on the subject, for Gloriana died on the 4th of the following May, 1857, at Paris: "The most queen-like woman I had ever known or seen, by nature and by culture facile princeps she, I think, of all great ladies I have ever seen."
Rudolf Goethe's 'Mitteilungen ueber Obst- und Gartenbau' is one of the standard works on horticulture. "And finally," said Cooper with a flash of pride quite unusual in him, "the treasure of my little library Homer; again a first edition." "Homer!" I cried. "An editio princeps!" "Nearly one hundred and fifty years old," he said. "The Rev.
Harvey Rolfe was a lady of the utmost personal and social charm; that her beauty was not easily described without the use of terms that would sound extravagant; that as a violinist she had stood for a year or two facile princeps amid lady amateurs; that she had till of late lived in romantic seclusion 'amid the noblest scenery of North Wales', for the sole purpose of devoting herself to music; and that only with the greatest reluctance had she consented to make known to the public a talent nay, a genius which assuredly was 'meant for mankind'. She was the favourite pupil of that admirable virtuoso, Herr Wilenski.
At Rugby, under Dr. Arnold; then, for a year or two, living among the ennobling associations of Trinity College; then at Guernsey, as a young soldier, under Sir William Napier; then in India, with James Thomason, Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Provinces, one of the best rulers that India ever knew, "facile princeps of the whole Indian service"; and finally passing from him to serve under Sir Henry Lawrence, the noblest soldier of India, a man for whom common words of praise are insufficient, Hodson had an unrivalled set of masters, and his life proves him to have been worthy of them.
The Man who should do it, must do it from Rome: and Rome had first to be put into such condition as to be capable of being used. It devolved upon Augustus to do that first, or his greater work would be impossible. He had to win Rome to acquiescence in himself as Princeps. So his primary need was a personality of infinite tact; and that he possessed.