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But Suarez particularly discusses this point, and not only rejects Mr. Mivart's view, but adopts language of very theological strength regarding it. "Possent praeterea his adjungi argumenta theologica, ut est illud quod sumitur ex illis verbis Genes. 2.
It seems irrational that, priests should spend daily more than an hour reading words that they understand not at all, or very imperfectly; and that the beautiful and sublime thought and language of the book of psalms, which are admired by all educated men, should be, to those who read them every day for years, nothing but a tinkling cymbal, vox et praeterea nihil.
It is in a lovely spot; but do you remember the Schloss in Immermann's Neuer Munchausen? Well, it is that. A ruin; windows half broken and boarded up, the handsome steps in front fallen in, and all en suite. The rooms I saw were large and airy; but mud floors, white- washed walls, one chair, one stump bedstead, and praeterea nihil.
"And if it had n't been for my talk with the landlord's daughter, do you know what we should have had? We should have had coffee and bread and praeterea nihil. That's what we should have had," he pronounced tragically, shaking his head in retrospective consternation at the thing escaped. "Oh, these starveling Continental breakfasts! But I threw myself upon Pia's clemency.
To her unspeakable amazement and dismay, she finds that the great orator is vox, et praeterea nihil. "'And what advice can I give you, Natalya Alexyevna? "'What advice? You are a man; I am used to trusting to you, I shall trust you to the end. Tell me, what are your plans? "'My plans Your mother certainly will turn me out of the house. "'Perhaps.
"Sanity that's what's wrong with me and that's what will be wrong with you, my dear Denis, when you're old enough to be sane or insane. In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just Vox et praeterea nihil." Denis made no response; he was thinking of other things.
If it bears the test, you may pronounce it true; but if it vanishes in the experiment, you may conclude it to have been a pun. In short, one may say of a pun, as the countryman described his nightingale, that it is "vox et praeterea nihil" "a sound, and nothing but a sound."
He also notices the Manichaean idea of Zambi-a-Nbi, or bad-God, drawing the fine distinction of European belief in a deity supremely good, who permits evil without participating in it. Zambi is the Anyambia of the Gaboon country, a vox et praeterea nihil. Dr.
Alluded to by the Roman Poet as Vox, et praeterea nihil. Stall No. 2. Money-changing. Stall No. 3. Programmes and General Enquiries. Stall No. 4. Roses. A rose by any other name, etc. Get one. You can't expect to smell one without buying it, but you may buy one without smelling it. Stall No. 5. Lasenby Liberty Stall. Stall No. 6. Historical Costumes and Ceramics. Stall No. 7. The Fish-pond.
Alluded to by the Roman Poet as Vox, et praeterea nihil. Stall No. 2. Money-changing. Stall No. 3. Programmes and General Enquiries. Stall No. 4. Roses. A rose by any other name, etc. Get one. You can't expect to smell one without buying it, but you may buy one without smelling it. Stall No. 5. Lasenby Liberty Stall. Stall No. 6. Historical Costumes and Ceramics. Stall No. 7. The Fish-pond.
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