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Dundas has kissed hands for Secretary of State; and Bishop Barrington, of Salisbury, is transferred to Durham, which he affected not to desire, having large estates by his wife in the south but from the triple mitre downwards, it is almost always true, what I said some years ago, that "nolo episcopari is Latin for I lie."
"By lawyers' consultations, and Chancery delay public meetings, and public dinners, loyal toasts, and `three times three' lady patronesses, and lords directors, and by the decoy subscription of the chair "Descend! "By the nolo episcopari of the Bishops "Come!
Carlyle's hero may say, "I will be king"; but the Christian saint must say, "Nolo episcopari." If the great paradox of Christianity means anything, it means this that we must take the crown in our hands, and go hunting in dry places and dark corners of the earth until we find the one man who feels himself unfit to wear it.
"Secularia negotia, nescio, quia scire nolo, eorum námque occupationes horreo, liberum affectans animum.
"Jefferson," said John Randolph in 1828, "was the only man I ever knew or heard of who really, truly, and honestly, not only said, Nolo episcopari, but actually refused the mitre." For six years, as we have said, Mr. Randolph led the Republican party in the House of Representatives, and supported the measures of the administration, all of them.
I am invited to a wedding, and see nought but gloom; and witnessing the coronation of Leopold, at Prague, I say to myself, 'Nolo coronari'. Cursed old age, thou art only worthy of dwelling in hell, as others before me have thought also, 'tristisque senectus'. About half-past nine my housekeeper looked out, and saw Le Duc by the moonlight coming along at a good pace. That news revived me.
No one can say that he is resolute for death who fears to deal with it and cannot undergo it with his eyes open: they whom we see in criminal punishments run to their death and hasten and press their execution, do it not out of resolution, but because they will not give them selves leisure to consider it; it does not trouble them to be dead, but to die: "Emodi nolo, sed me esse mortem nihil astigmia:"
Although a companion of the great, he was strictly popular in his tone. He appealed to the great public, removed on the one hand from accurate learning, on the other from indifference to knowledge. "Nec doctissimis," he says, "Manium Persium haec legere nolo, Junium Congum volo."
"Now that I am getting into my dotage, I look on the dark side of everything. I am invited to a wedding and see naught but gloom; and, witnessing the coronation of Leopold II, at Prague, I say to myself, 'Nolo coronari'. Cursed old age, thou art only worthy of dwelling in hell." "The longer I live, the more interest I take in my papers.
Pitt declared that the French Revolution was the severest trial which Providence had ever yet inflicted on the nations of the earth; and, claiming that there was no security in negotiating with France, owing to her instability, he summed up his case in the Ciceronian phrase: Pacem nolo quia infida.
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