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Cras ingens iterabimus sequor. Ah me! I leave my new Salamis behind! But on that last evening he insisted on writing letters to Langham and Newcome. 'I will spare Langham the sight of me, he said, smiling sadly. 'And I will spare myself the sight of Newcome I could not bear it, I think! But I must say good-by for I love them both.
Work without hope of profits! That cannot be, for it would be self-destruction. He would like to, perhaps; he has not the courage. Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor. The retired proprietor is really the owl of the fable gathering beech-nuts for its mutilated mice until it is ready to devour them.
"And conscious of it in every issue. One long and pious scold, after a high-minded, bad-tempered formula of its own." "Then I'll give you a motto for your Ledger." Edmonds puffed it out enjoyably, decorated with bluish and delicate whorls. "'Meliora video proboque, deleriora sequor." "No; I won't have that.
"The two lovers the old one and the new: how she wanted to marry the second, but felt she ought to marry the first; so that she neglected the better course to follow the evil, like the poet Ovid I've just been construing: 'Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor." "O no; she didn't follow evil exactly!" said Lucetta hastily.
"Video meliora, proboque, I see the better, and approve it; deteriora sequor, I follow after the worse: 'tis that natural dislike to what is good, pure, holy, and true, that inrooted selfishness, totally insensible to the claims of" Here the worthy man was interrupted by Miss Letty. "Do come, if you can, grandpapa," said the young girl; "here is a poor old black woman wants to see you so much!"
The chaplain was touched by Harry's gift of the horse; and felt a genuine friendliness towards the lad. "You see, sir," says he, "I am of the world, and must do as the rest of the world does. I have led a rough life, Mr. Warrington, and can't afford to be more particular than my neighbours. Video meliora, deteriora sequor, as we said at college.
He could not live without work, while pleasure palled upon him. In a letter to a stranger who sought to convert him, he showed anything but anger or contempt. "Do me," says he, "the justice to suppose, that Video meliora proboque, however the deteriora sequor may have been applied to my conduct." Alas, he could not undo the mischief he had done!
"Video meliora, proboque, I see the better, and approve it; deteriora sequor, I follow after the worse; 't is that natural dislike to what is good, pure, holy, and true, that inrooted selfishness, totally insensible to the claims of" Here the worthy man was interrupted by Miss Letty. "Do come, if you can, grandpapa," said the young girl; "here is a poor old black woman wants to see you so much!"
"You have exprest yourself extremely well," cries Booth; "and I entirely agree with the justice of your sentiments; but, however true all this may be in theory, I still doubt its efficacy in practice. And the cause of the difference between these two is this; that we reason from our heads, but act from our hearts: -Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor.
As for "prosequi" it was not so difficult, as "sequor" was a familiar word; and, after some cogitation, Jack announced his discoveries. "If this thing were in English, now," he said, "a fellow might understand it.
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