sapentia

Updated: May 25, 2025

"Sit right here by the window, where I can have a good light." Mr. Belford, a physical coward, could not bear pain; and though he was unwilling to be under obligations to one whom he considered a mere boy, he sat down in the proffered chair, and opened his mouth dutifully. "Ah, yes dentes sapentia. It's quite gone. Shall I take it out for you?" "Will it be painful?" "No.

Various - The Galaxy: Vol. 23, No. 1

Besides his work as a reviewer, which was considerable, Maine wrote in an admirable style, and with a scholarship and sense which, in the recrudescence of more barbaric thought, have brought down socialist and other curses on his head many works on the philosophy of law, politics, and history, the chief of which were his famous Ancient Law , Village Communities , Early Law and Custom , with a severe criticism on Democracy called Popular Government . Few writers of our time could claim the phrase mitis sapentia as Maine could, though it is possible that he was a little too much given to theorise.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)