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With that reflection, nevertheless, he was about to withdraw his feet from their voluntary dilemma, when the crazy stick suddenly gave way and the partition fell back into its clasp. Dr. Riceabocca was fairly caught, "Facilis descensus sed revocare gradum!" True, his hands were at liberty, but his legs were so long that, being thus fixed, they kept the hands from the rescue; and as Dr. Dr.
"Jam fuerit, nec post unquam revocare licebit." Yet did not this thought wrinkle my forehead any more than any other.
We turned out of one of the streets not far from the hotel, and found ourselves facing an ascent which looked like what I should suppose would be a pretty steep toboggan slide. We both drew back. "Facilis ascensus," I said to myself, "sed revocare gradum." It is easy enough to get up if you are dragged up, but how will it be to come down such a declivity?
revocare gradus, superasque evadere ad auras and to get up moreover to make jokes with malice prepended there was the "labour," there the "work." No Egyptian taskmaster ever devised a slavery like to that, our slavery. No fractious operants ever turned out for half the tyranny, which this necessity exercised upon us.
I did so, having insinuated myself with vast exertion through the iron stanchions which secured the window; ‘sed revocare gradum.’ Whilst I was thrusting might and main through the stanchions, on my way out—suddenly, oh, horrible! the schoolroom door flew open, and on the threshold stood the Reverend Mr. Storey—a fiery, frightful, formidable spectre!
These mariners made us wait while they finished their preparations. It meant a long voyage to them, a facilis descensus Averni; sed revocare gradum, a very long pull. Then the bow was poled off, the current took us in its arms and swung us out into the stream, and the crowd on the shingle dropped perspectively astern.
What does our friend Thucydides remark on the subject? "Conscia mens recti, nec si sinit esse dolorem Sed revocare gradum." Very well then. 'But why should you think anything's up? asked Tony. 'Perhaps nothing is, but it's jolly fishy. You see Thompson and the Old 'Un pacing along there? Well, they've been going like that for about twenty minutes. I've been watching them.
I tripped lightly down the long northern slope with facilis descensus on my lips, and toiled up again, repeating sed revocare gradum.
Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. VIRG. AEn. vi. 126. The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return and view the cheerful skies; In this the task and mighty labour lies.
I tripped lightly down the long northern slope with facilis descensus on my lips, and toiled up again, repeating sed revocare gradum.
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