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"O sancta simplicitas!" the chaplain muttered to himself. "Stories, my dear sir, much older than your time or mine. Stories such as were told about everybody, de me, de te; you know with what degree of truth in your own case." "Confound the villain! I should like to hear any scoundrel say a word against the dear old lady," cries the young gentleman.
He was stripped of his clothes, his hands roped behind his back, his neck chained to the stake, wood and straw were piled around him neck-high. They say as an old woman brought her few fagots to the funeral pile, Hus cried out: "O sancta simplicitas!" O holy simplicity. This came true in Luther. In the last moment the Marshal of the realm, Pappenheim, called on Hus to recant and save his life.
Surely he must see that he had not had enough experience of me yet to make so large a proposition, that it was absurd, and so forth. O sancta simplicitas! Even the success chronicled in the preceding chapter did not exhaust the store of good luck destined for my first appearance as a political leader-writer. Fate again showed its determination to force me upon The Spectator.
Oh, sancta not simplicitas, but Oh, clear-sighted Republican! Subsequently, I learned that Senator Wilson was present for a moment, and only by a pure accident, at that ovation.
Townsend, as far as I remember, never talked about the ethics of journalism or the duties of the journalist. It must not be supposed for a moment that this was because he did not realise or respect those duties, or was indifferent. It was rather due to the fact that he had a kind of innocence, a sancta simplicitas, on this as, indeed, on many moral and social questions.
The Vatican seems very familiar, but strangely smaller than of old. I never lost the sense before of confusing vastness. <i>Sancta simplicitas!</i> All my old friends however stand there in undimmed radiance, keeping most of them their old pledges.
So you actually imagined a man of my brains would condescend to anything so flat and stale as the silly and threadbare Old Master deception! And this in the so-called nineteenth century! O sancta simplicitas! When again shall such infantile transparency be mine? When, ah, when? But never mind, dear friend. Though you didn't catch me, we shall meet before long at some delightful Philippi.
They exhibit the three indispensable gifts of the finest authorship: "simplicitas munditiis," "lucidus ordo," "curiosa felicitas."
"Everybody's quite satisfied. What more do they want?" "That is quite true," said Dubova. "Whole columns in the newspapers are devoted to actors and their wonderful performances; it is positively revolting; whereas here ..." "Yet what a good work we're doing!" said Schafroff, with conviction, as he gathered his pamphlets together. "Sancta Simplicitas!" ejaculated Yourii inwardly.
Trusting in the word of an Emperor who had promised him a safe conduct back to his own country, John Hus had gone to Constance to defend his faith. Rome proved all-powerful, prevailed against the promise of an Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and John Hus perished, on his lips, they say, the words, "O Sancta Simplicitas!" But his memory lives, and most surely amongst those of simple faith.
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