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So that Galileo might have concluded not doubtfully, but with assured confidence that the appendage is a thin flat ring nowhere attached to the planet, or, as Huyghens said some forty years later, Saturn 'annulo cingitur tenui, plano, nusquam cohærente. Whether such reasoning would have been accepted by the contemporaries of Galileo may be doubtful.
The story of the country mouse, who must needs see the town, occurs forcibly to his recollection, and he exclaims aloud: "me sylva, cavusque Tutus ab insidiis tenui solabitur ervo." On overhearing which, Mr. It is an axiom among fox-hunters that the hounds they individually hunt with are the best compared with them all others are "slow." Of this species of pardonable egotism, Mr.
Two ladies got out of it, and were asking their way of the porters; the major looked by chance at the panel of the carriage, and saw the worn-out crest of the eagle looking at the sun, and the motto, "nec tenui penna," painted beneath. It was his brother's old carriage, built many, many years ago. It was Helen and Laura that were asking their way to poor Pen's room.
Far to the right lay what had once been called horresco referens the duckpond, where "Dulce sonant tenui gutture carmen aves." But the ruthless ingenuity of the head-artificer had converted the duck-pond into a Swiss lake, despite grievous wrong and sorrow to the assuetum innocuumque genus, the familiar and harmless inhabitants, who had been all expatriated and banished from their native waves.
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