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He was always distinguished for a tendency to exaggeration, it might almost be qualified by a stronger term. Fortiter mentire, aliquid hæret, seemed to be his favourite rule of rhetorick.
He did not yet know, at least not directly from the text, the dialogues of Plato, and he is already inclined to Platonism. He was this by nature. His Christianity will be a religion all of light and beauty. For him, the supreme Beauty is identical with the supreme Love. "Do we love anything," he used to say to his friends, "except what is beautiful?" Num amamus aliquid, nisi pulchrum?
"Ex Africa semper aliquid novi." In the last week of the old year we started on our journey to Kimberley, then a matter of thirty-six hours. The whole of one day we dawdled over the Great Karroo in pelting rain and mist, which reminded one of Scotland.
Perhaps there is something in Africa itself which makes it a huge exception to the rules of other lands; the something which is suggested in the 'rivers without water, flowers without scent, and birds without song'; a contrariness which puts the alluvial gold on the top of mountain ranges and leaves the valleys barren; which mocked the experience of the world, and showed the waterworn gravel deposit to be the biggest, richest, deepest, and most reliable gold reef ever known; which placed diamonds in such conditions that the greatest living authority, who had undertaken a huge journey to report on the occurrence, could only say, in the face of a successful wash-up, 'Well, there may be diamonds here, but all I can say is they've no right to be'; the something which many, many centuries ago prompted the old Roman to write, 'Ex Africâ semper aliquid novi affert, and which is in the mind of the South African to-day when he says, 'The impossible is always happening in Africa.
A few lines of Pliny which I wrote on the title-page of his history, will suffice to show the feelings with which I heard of his death: 'Mihi autem videtur acerba semper et immatura mors eorum qui immortale aliquid parant.
Rustico aliquid subolet," warned Christie, with a significant glance toward the third occupant of the room, who had paused in his restless walk and was regarding them intently. Before the elder man could reply, he stepped, to where they were sitting and said quietly to the young officer who had just spoken:
And yet they loved and frisked and laughed and courted to that sad accompaniment. There is scarce one of the airs that has not an amari aliquid, a tang of sadness. Perhaps it is because they are old and defunct, and their plaintive echoes call out to us from the limbo of the past, whither they have been consigned for this century.
"An quidquam stultius, quam, quos singulos contemnas, eos aliquid putare esse universes?" Cicero, Tusc. He that makes it his business to please them, will have enough to do and never have done; 'tis a mark that can never be aimed at or hit: "Nil tam inaestimabile est, quam animi multitudinis."
The latter says that the Chronicler is in error when he asserts that this monastery of Maria of Jesus was endowed. The sixth chapter of the rule is: "Nullus fratrum sibi aliquid proprium, esse dicat, sed sint vobis omnia communia." See ch. xxxii. section 13. See Relation, i. section 10. F. Pedro Ibanez. Ch. xi. section 3. F. Pedro Ibanez. The house of Dona Luisa, in Toledo.
He feared people would talk of it to his dying day; he knew they would! He wished balloons had never been invented. None the less he stuck it out bravely, threw himself with redoubled zeal into Monsignor Perrelli and, incidentally, became more of a recluse than ever. "It has been a lesson," he reflected. "SEMPER ALIQUID HAEREBIT, I am afraid. . . ." Ernest Eames was the ideal annotator.
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