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"Non, ut olim, universæ legiones deducebantur, cum tribunis, et centurionibus, et sui cujusque ordinis militibus, ut consensu et caritate rempublicam efficerent; sed ignoti inter se, diversis manipulis, sine rectore, sine affectibus mutuis, quasi ex alio genere mortalium repente in unum collecti, numerus magis quam colonia." Tac. Annal. lib. 14, sect. 27.
You can't miss his place, and he'll pocket his fee like a wise man ind ask no questions." "You've done very well, sir," said I. "The blood has almost ceased to flow. I'm greatly beholden to you." "Say no more!" he cried earnestly. "It's a boon you've conferred on me, if you only knew it. Nemo repente turpissimus, as we say." "Video proboque, as we also say," I countered, smiling. "Oddones!
-Repente ad studium hunc se applicasse musicum Amicum ingenio fretum, haud natura sua-. And in the later prologue to the -Adelphi- he says
Livy, speaking of the Roman army in Spain, says that for the loss of the two brothers, their great captains: "Flere omnes repente, et offensare capita." 'Tis a common practice.
Sed, ut in dubiis consiliis, naves deerant: ratio et constantia ducis transvexit. Depositis omnibus sarcinis, lectissimos auxiliarium, quibus nota vada et patrius nandi usus, quo simul seque et arma et equos regunt, ita repente immisit, ut obstupefacti hostes, qui classem, qui naves, qui mare expectabant, nihil arduum aut invictum crediderint sic ad bellum venientibus.
"Nemo repente turpissinus semper fait, No man is wholly bad all at once." "The father did as you would have advised, brother. He kept the youth; he remonstrated with him: he did more, he gave him the key of the bureau. 'Take what I have to give, said he; 'I would rather be a beggar than know my son a thief." "Right! And the youth repented, and became a good man?" exclaimed my father.
"But Kenrick puzzles me. `Nemo repente fuit turpissimus' one used to think; yet that boy has dropped from the society of such a noble fellow as Power, with his exquisite mind and manners, plumb into the abyss of intimacy with Harpour. There must be something all wrong." A very little observation showed Mr Percival that his conjectures about Kenrick were correct.
Such a theory, however well it may fit certain theological systems, does not fit the facts of human life, or, as I hold, the teaching of Scripture. Such terrible crimes are not committed by men in a right state of mind. Nemo repente fuit turpissimus. He who commits adultery, treachery, and murder, must have been long tampering, at least in heart, with all these.
See ante, ii. 227. 'Fortunam reverenter habe, quicumque repente Dives ab exili progrediere loco. Ausonius, Epigrammata, viii. 7. A lively account of Quin is given in Humphry Clinker, in the letters of April 30 and May 6. See ante, i. 216. A few days earlier Garrick wrote to a friend: 'I did not hear till last night that your friends have generously contributed to your and their own happiness.
There was a conversation about the admission of solicitors to the roll, and the long time it took before they were eligible to pass from their stage of pupilage to that of solicitor, amounting, I think, to seven years; upon which Lord Young said, "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus."
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