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At the head of one of his poems, Henry Vaughan has this Latin translation of the verse: I do not know whether he found or made it, but it is closer to its sense than ours: 'Etenim res creatae exerto capite observantes expectant revelationem filiorum Dei. 'For the things created, watching with head thrust out, await the revelation of the sons of God. Why?
They are her dutiful subjects like all the inhabitants of the Netherlands." "It is quite true," said Burghley, after having made some critical remarks upon the military system of the Provinces, "and a very common adage, 'quod tunc tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet, but, nevertheless, this war principally concerns you.
And in the following proposition, the seventh, of the same part, he adds: conatus, quo unaquoeque res in suo esse perseverare conatur, nihil est proeter ipsius rei actualem essentiam that is, the endeavour wherewith everything endeavours to persist in its own being is nothing but the actual essence of the thing itself.
In tendering his invitation to Mr. Carter, Mr. Townsend had explained that with him the res angusta domi, which was always a prevailing disease, had been heightened by the circumstances of the time; but that of such crust and cup as he had, his brother English clergyman would be made most welcome to partake. In answer to this, Mr.
Who would counsel his son to undergo the countless risks of poor married life, to remove the beloved girl from comfort and competence, and subject her to debt, misery, privation, friendlessness, sickness, and the hundred gloomy consequences of the res angusta domi? I look at my own wife and ask her pardon for having imposed a task so fraught with pain and danger upon one so gentle.
The experience of the past has taught me that in the English alliance is Wales's only hope of tranquillity and true independence and civilization. When such men as this Res ap Meredith break into revolt against Edward, it is time for us to rally round his standard.
After which valiant plunge in medias res, came a great lump of deception, after the manner of youths of the island, and the whitehouses, and the banana groves, and above all, the single volcano towering over the whole, which Shaking a sinful isle with thundering shocks, Reproved the worshippers of stones and stocks.
"I will even do as Horace says, sir," I answered, smiling, "and carry you in medias res." He nodded as if he was well pleased, and indeed his scrap of Latin had been set to test me. For all that, and though I was somewhat encouraged, the blood came in my face when I added: "I have reason to believe myself some rights on the estate of Shaws."
Now, some of these beginnings are, of course, for very young children, but they all have the same advantage, that of plunging in medias res, and, therefore, arrest attention at once, contrary to the stories which open on a leisurely note of description. In the same way we must be careful about the endings of stories.
"On the principle of knowing the worst I understand," said Margaret. "As long as people understand each other," Claudius put in, "it is always better to plunge in medias res from the first." "Yes, Dr. Claudius, you understand that very well;" and Margaret turned towards him as she spoke. "The Doctor understands many things," said Barker in parenthesis.
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