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It travelled back to the old record of the conversation with Lord Clarendon, more than a year and a half before, took up the old exceptions, warmed them over into grievances, and joined with them whatever the 'captatores verborum, not extinct since Daniel Webster's time, could add to their number.
How one does tremble with rage at his own intense momentary stupidity about things he knows perfectly well, and to think how he lays himself open to the impertinences of the captatores verborum, those useful but humble scavengers of the language, whose business it is to pick up what might offend or injure, and remove it, hugging and feeding on it as they go!
Tell me, Carew, do I wake or dream or, stay, was it a soul I heard? Ay, Carew, 'twas a soul: the lad's own white, young soul. My faith, I said he was of no account! Satis verborum say no more. Humanum est errare I am a poor old fool; and there's a sour bug flown in mine eye that makes it water so!" He wiped his eyes, for the tears were running down his cheeks.
Since they have so excellent a talent, such a Copia Verborum, or plenty of words, it is pity they should not put it to some use. If the female tongue will be in motion, why should it not be set to go right?
Next to the perfection of contracts by the intervention of things re, were obligations contracted by verbis solemn words and by literis or writing. The verborum obligatio was contracted by uttering certain formal words of style, an interrogation being put by one party and an answer given by the other. These stipulations were binding. In England all guarantees must be in writing.
The sources of this superstition are easily traced. The English have created the noblest literature in the world, and are candidly ashamed of the fact. In their view anybody who succeeds in words must necessarily fail in business. The Irishman on the contrary luxuriates, like the artist that he is, in that splendor verborum celebrated by Dante.
As old Villotte says from whose work I first contrived to pick up the rudiments of Armenian 'Est verborum transitivorum, quorum infinitivus but I forgot, you don't understand Latin. He says there are certain transitive verbs, whose infinitive is in outsaniel; the preterite in outsi; the imperative in one; for example parghatsout-saniem, I irritate "
It travelled back to the old record of the conversation with Lord Clarendon, more than a year and a half before, took up the old exceptions, warmed them over into grievances, and joined with them whatever the 'captatores verborum, not extinct since Daniel Webster's time, could add to their number.
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