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"Why you must get an augur, and bore a hole down in the middle of it, and make the end of your flag-staff round so that it will just fit in." The boys thought this an excellent plan, and went off after the log. While they were gone, Mary Anna asked Caleb if he had fed his squirrel that evening, and Caleb said he had not. "Hadn't you better go now and feed him before it is too dark?"
And the augur Tolumnius cried, "This is the token that I have looked for. For this eagle is the stranger, and ye are the birds, which before, indeed, have fled, but shall now make him to flee." And he ran forward and cast his spear, smiting a man of Arcadia below the belt, upon the groin.
"I like to hear you speak thus, and I augur well for Edmond from it." "Wait a moment," said Villefort, turning over the leaves of a register; "I have it a sailor, who was about to marry a young Catalan girl. I recollect now; it was a very serious charge." "How so?" "You know that when he left here he was taken to the Palais de Justice." "Well?"
These two reasons by themselves augur badly for the land they live upon, implying a state of armed neutrality, no cohesion, and no settled peace. Under a tribal system the tribe is the unit, not the individual "one for all, and all for one": it follows that transgression and retribution are both upon a wholesale scale, and alike disastrous towards the consolidation of a united nation.
Brotteaux pulled out his Lucretius from the fireplace all black with soot. "Let us make the best of the present," he thought, "for I augur from sundry tokens that our time is straitly measured from henceforth."
Henry, if your industry be only half equal to your genius, I augur that you will do well, and become an ornament and an honor to your profession."
The Peruvian augur might have learned a good lesson of the Roman, to consider every omen as favorable, which served the interests of his country.30 A fire was then kindled by means of a concave mirror of polished metal, which, collecting the rays of the sun into a focus upon a quantity of dried cotton, speedily set it on fire.
All seem to speak in the highest terms of the order and decorum preserved through the whole of this imposing ceremony, and the good feeling which seems to prevail, with but trivial exceptions, is thought to augur well in behalf of the new administration." "I went last night in a carriage with four others Captain Chauncey of the navy; Mr.
"'They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." E. L. Magoon. During Robert Walpole's administration , a stamp duty was proposed. He said "I will leave the taxation of America to some of my successors, who have more courage than I have." Sir William Keith, governor of Pennsylvania, proposed a tax in 1739.
One Scaevola was Pontifex Maximus, another was Augur; Cicero himself was Augur, so was Caesar. The two things were kept quite distinct. Philosophy did not influence political action in any way. It was simply a refuge for the mind, such as all thinking men must have, and which if not supplied by a true creed, will inevitably be sought in a false or imperfect one.
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