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Queer dogs! nothing can damp the warm ardour of their comic vein all the solemnity of a court of justice the look of the bar and the bench the voice of the crier the blue bags of briefs the “terrible show,” has no effect on their minds “ruat cœlum,” they will have their joke.
Each must have resigned a practice very far exceeding perhaps doubling, or even trebling their present salaries of office. On this sore subject we shall not dwell, nor do we feel bound to offer any opinion of our own as to the alleged merits or demerits of the new Poor-Law; but it certainly looks as though Ministers had resolved to do what they believed to be right, ruat caelum.
Now, as all sin must be repented of at once, it is the duty of the passengers and crew to put the ship about, and deliver it to the owners in Glasgow! Perhaps we should not think it best to put in force the 'ruat coelum' doctrine, especially if we had had some 'ruat coelum' storms, and it was late in the season.
"You are poor creatures, both of you," said Lady Bellamy; "but we will, then, decide to go on." "Fiat 'injuria' ruat coelum," said Sir John, who knew a little Latin; and, frightened as he was, could not resist the temptation to air it.
She having observed Sarah at the top of the kitchen stairs telegraphing for assistance, had endeavoured to make her way to her friend while Tom Mackenzie and Mrs Slumpy were still upon the stairs; but the tyrant, though he had seen the cook's distress, had refused and sternly kept the girl a prisoner behind him. Ruat dinner, fiat genteel deportment.
I should be falling into the little pit that he has dug for me." "He couldn't hurt you. What have you got to be afraid of? Ruat coelum."
Heywood Broun, says on page 33 of the November issue of your worthy magazine that The Easiest Way is the father of all modern American tragedy. Sir, does Mr. Broun forget that there once lived a man named William Shakespeare? Is it possible to overlook such immortal tragedies as Hamlet and Othello? I think not. Fiat justitia, ruat colum. Sincerely, SHERWIN G. COLLINS.
For that matter, does not the aggregate of enjoyment of a score of cannibals outweigh the suffering of the one man whom they have sacrificed to their appetite, or the delirious excitement with which a brutal crowd witnesses a lynching overbalance the pain of their solitary victim? Yet our souls revolt against such things. We cry, ruat caelum, fiat justitia! Justice is prior to all expediency!
Sir John Newport stated that the Irish nation took a virtuous interest in this noble cause. He ridiculed the idea that the trade and manufactures of the country would suffer by the measure in contemplation; but, even if they should suffer, he would oppose it. "Fiat justitia, ruat coelura," Upon a division, there appeared for the second reading one hundred, and against it forty-two.
Nature, it seems, is waiting for me round the corner because I venture to stick to my principles. 'Ruat caelum! I cry; and in my humble opinion it's Nature, not I, that cuts a poor figure!" "My dear Ellis," protested Wilson, "what's the use of talking like that? It's not really sublime, it's only ridiculous!" "Certainly!" retorted Ellis; "it's you who are sublime. I prefer the ridiculous."
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