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In a word what man could do to repair my defeat, I did. They were handed about in confidence at court, and made a frightful sensation: "IS IT POSSIBLE?" "'Come to the dance, the Briton said, And forward D-r-th-a led, Fair, fresh, and three-and-twenty! Ah, girls; beware of Britons red! What wonder that it TURNED HER HEAD? SAT VERBUM SAPIENTI."
Girls in her position are not nice as to terms when they can greatly better themselves. You have money enough to lodge her like a princess compared with her present condition. Verbum sat sapienti." Vinton replied indignantly that he knew nothing about Mildred. "Oh, I know all about women," was the confident reply; "have forgotten more than you ever knew."
"Aye, verily," cried the archer, "that do I in sooth Verbum sat sapienti good friar." "Not so," growled Roger, "'tis but a pestilent archer that seeketh but base hire. I only am my lord's man, sworn to aid him in his vow." "I also," quoth Walkyn, "an so my lord wills?" "So shall it be," sighed Beltane, his hand upon his throbbing brow. "And what have ye in mind to do?"
The whole thing is an allegory, a continuous metaphor. You understand me? Sapienti sat." But several most honourable gentlemen did not rest satisfied with this explanation; the history of this automaton had sunk deeply into their souls, and an absurd mistrust of human figures began to prevail.
Oppression is a powder magazine exposed always to the danger of explosion from spontaneous combustion. Verbum sat sapienti. Another curious circumstance connected with this history, was the trial and conviction of four white men, on indictments for attempting to incite the slaves to insurrection.
But, be the incentives what they may, it might not be amiss on our part to suggest to those impelled by them that the ignoring of Negro opinion in their calculations, though not only possible but easily practised fifty years ago, is a portentous blunder at the present time. Verbum sapienti. Mr. Froude must see that he has set about his Negro-repression campaign in too blundering a fashion.
I had intended to effect an insurance on my life, but was deterred therefrom by a circular from one of the offices, in which the sudden deaths of so large a proportion of the insured was set forth as an inducement, that it seemed to me little less than a tempting of Providence. Neque in summâ inopiâ levis esse senectus potest, ne sapienti quidem. Thus far concerning Mr.
But what sayeth the proverb, verbum sapienti a word is more to him that hath wisdom than a sermon to a fool.
Ottmar thought that he could have felt a certain amount of interest about it if it had been written in a book. Cyprian said that the sapienti sat, was enough as regarded it. In the meantime, Theodore had gone into the next room, and now came back with a veiled picture, which he placed on a table against the wall, setting two candles in front of it.
There are sterile knotty sciences, chiefly hammered out for the crowd; let such be left to them who are engaged in the world's service. I for my part care for no other books, but either such as are pleasant and easy, to amuse me, or those that comfort and instruct me how to regulate my life and death: "Tacitum sylvas inter reptare salubres, Curantem, quidquid dignum sapienti bonoque est."
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