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This was disappointing, inasmuch as it led us to infer that some Boers were yet alive at Magersfontein. And our ardour was further damped by the De Beers directors who instead of formally dispersing until the next day, once more adjourned their meeting sine die. What did it mean?
With the purport, no doubt, of conquering Mithridates, but perhaps with the stronger object of getting him out of Rome, the army had been intrusted to him, with the consent of the Marian faction. Then came those three years, when Sulla was in the East and Marius dead, of which Cicero speaks as a period of peace, in which a student was able to study in Rome. "Triennium fere fuit urbs sine armis."
The subjectivity of sensation is individual, while that of space and time is general or universal to mankind; the former is empirical, individually different, and contingent, the latter a priori and necessary. Space alone, not sensation, is a conditio sine qua non of external perception.
When we can see you command your own sloop of war, I shall be most happy, as I am sure my good friend Somerville will be also, to see you command his daughter, the finest and the best girl in the county of ." No arguments could induce the two old gentlemen to bate one inch from this sine qua non.
This letter put me in an excessively ill-humor. I saw my presentation deferred till doom's day, or, at least, adjourned <sine die>. I questioned my friends: the unanimous advice was that I ought to mention it to the king at one of his evening visits; and I determined to do so without loss of time. When his majesty came I received him very graciously, and then said to him,
In one respect the reigning sovereign was in advance of his age. In his devotion to the Madonna he claimed the same miraculous origin for her mother as for herself. When the prayer "O Sancta Maria sine labe originali concepta" was chanted, he would exclaim with emotion that the words embodied his devoutest aspirations.
"Democriti pecus edit agellos Cultaque, dum peregre est animus sine corpore velox."
This is the sine qua num. Every primary law goes through heaven and earth. Go with it. This is the business and privilege of intellect. When one comes to writing, let his discourse have a beginning and an end. Do not let the end of his essay be merely the end of his sheet, or the place where he took a notion to stop writing, but let it be necessary.
You have been asked whether you will continue fighting until you are exterminated. But there is another alternative. Will you not continue fighting until you are relieved? I maintain that our independence must be a sine quâ non of any negotiations that we make we cannot give it up. So long as we have life we must continue to fight, and we must only lay down our arms when relief arrives."
"I really can't tell you," said Schafroff. They all looked at each other in astonishment, as it seemed odd and not altogether decent to be unable to say who Semenoff's people were. "His sister is at the high school, I believe," observed Sine. "Ah! I see! Well, good-bye!" said the priest, slightly raising his hat with his plump fingers. "Good-bye!" they replied in unison.
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