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-Sed sumne ego stultus, qui rem curo publicam Ubi sunt magistratus, quos curare oporteat? and taken as a whole, we can hardly imagine a comedy politically more tame than was that of Rome in the sixth century. The oldest Roman comic writer of note, Gnaeus Naevius, alone forms a remarkable exception.
The records of the French theatre demonstrate this fact; in the "Mystery of Saint Barbara," we find this stage direction: Pausa. Vadunt, et stultus loquitur. And in this way he is frequently brought on between the scenes. It is quite obvious that the terms Clown and fool were used, though improperly, perhaps, as synonymous by our old dramatists.
David's; he seems to have been slow at learning when a child, and his tutors goaded him on not by the birch rod, but by sarcasm by declining "Stultus, stultior, stultissimus." His higher education was not obtained in Wales, and it is singular that he does not notice any place of learning in Wales in all his writings. He studied at Gloucester, and then at Paris, the greatest mediæval university.
Setting down the lantern, he commenced work, and with pious toil engraved on the stone in the Latin of the period: "HAC MAGNUS STULTUS JACET IN FOSSA SEPULTUS. MULIER CUI CREDIDIT MORTUUM ILLUM REDDIDIT." Here he paused, at the end of his strength and of his Latin. "Beshrew my old arms and brains!" he sighed. "Hem!" coughed a deep voice in his vicinity. The monk looked up.
No, no, for all she looks so innocent as it were, take my word for it she is no fool. T. No. 119. Urbem, quam dicunt Romam, Melibaee, putavi Stultus ego huic nostrae similem. VIRG. Ecl. i. v. 20. Fool that I was, I thought imperial Rome Like Mantua.
The weddings and the christenings! do you think I'll have nothing to do in them, you! stultus you?" "But, Denis, is there any harm in the priests enjoying themselves, and they so holy as we know they are?" inquired his mother.
And yet commonly they take advantage of their inability, and would be thought wits of direction. But Solomon saith, Prudens advertit ad gressus suos; stultus divertit ad dolos. Of Wisdom For A Man's Self AN ANT is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard or garden. And certainly, men that are great lovers of themselves, waste the public.
She understands every thing. I'd give ten Pounds to hear her argue with my Friend Sir ANDREW FREEPORT about Trade. No, no, for all she looks so innocent as it were, take my Word for it she is no Fool. No. 119. Tuesday, July 17, 1711. Addison. 'Urbem quam dicunt Romam, Melibaee, putavi Stultus ego huic nostrae similem ... Virg.
Of Buteon, who criticized the treatise on Arithmetic, he says: "Est plane stultus et elleboro indiget." Tartaglia's name is there, and he, according to Cardan, was forced to eat his words; "but he was ashamed to do what he promised, and unwilling to blot out what he had written.
Has "Stultus" forgiven the indignity of being thus characterized? The southeast chamber was the Library Hospital. Every scholar should have a book infirmary attached his library.
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