"IIS" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unprofitableness, it is delightful to turn to the lessons of the great English teacher. We can almost forgive all the faults of Bacon's life when we read that singularly graceful and dignified passage: "Ego certe, ut de me ipso, quod res est, loquar, et in iis quae nunc edo, et in iis quae in posterum meditor, dignitatem ingenii et nominis mei, si qua sit, saepius sciens et volens projicio, dum commodis humanis inserviam; quique architectus fortasse in philosophia et scientiis esse debeam, etiam operarius, et bajulus, et quidvis demum ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... foedere continebantur, ob quam Dei populo non opus esset laboriosa disquisitione, aut exactiori disciplina, ut prcepta istius foederis cognoscerent implerentque, (Ejusdem capitis, ver. 34.) Idem Mosen quoque voluisse manifestum erit, (si verba ejus Deut. xxx. 11, et seq. cum iis, qu Apostolus ad eundem locum disserit Rom. x. 6, et seq. accuratius perpenderis.) Mihi certe clara videntur omnia. (6) Ac postremo, ut res hc tota extra omnem controversi aleam ponatur, ipsi Hebrorum magistri ea, qu Deut. xxix. et deinceps continentur, ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon
... durissimum fuit, ita reliqua fuere secundissima. Vivi pervenimus ad Annam Principem Verianam. Quid ego tibi de huius mulieris comitate, benignitate, liberalitate memorem? Scio rhetorum amplificationes suspectas haberi solere, praesertim iis 55 qui eius artificii rudes non sint. At hic me nihil allevare, immo re vinci artem nostram, mihi credas velim. Nihil unquam produxit rerum natura aut pudentius aut prudentius aut candidius aut benignius. Quid de meo Batto ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus
... independent attitude towards antiquity, on the ground that the world is now older and more mature, was becoming a current view. [Footnote: Descartes wrote: Non est quod antiquis multum tribuamus propter antiquitatem, sed nos potius iis seniores dicendi. Jam enim senior est mundus quam tune majoremque habemus rerum experientiam. (A fragment quoted by Baillet, Vie de Descartes, viii. 10.) Passages to the same effect occur in Malebranche, Arnauld, and Nicole. (See Bouillier, ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... omnes, etiam mechanicas, esse dona Dei, saltem naturalia, neque in iis ut suis, suaque industria inventis aut partis, homini gloriandum esse (q. d. vanitatem observare), sed illas Deo adscribendas, ab eoque petendas, et in ejus ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 • Various
... early author whom we find speaking of Hariot is his lifelong friend and companion Robert Hues or Hughes in his ' Tractatus de / Globis et eo- / rvm vsv, / Accommo-datus iis qui Lon-/dini editi funt Anno I593,/ fumptibus Gulielmi Sanderfoni / Ciuis Londinienfis/Confcriptus a Ro-/bertoHues./ Londini/ In ardibus Thomae Dawfon. / ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens
... said the Prior; "one of those disorderly men, who, taking on them the sacred character without due cause, profane the holy rites, and endanger the souls of those who take counsel at their hands; 'lapides pro pane condonantes iis', giving them stones instead of bread ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... inscription on the awnings of the butchers' shops, "are the rewards of those who expose their lives for Philip" [Haec sunt munera pro iis qui vitam pro Philippo proferunt: Memoires de L'Estoile, t. ii. pp. 73, 74]. In 1591 these public sentiments, reproduced and dilated upon in numerous pamphlets, imported dissension into the heart of the League itself, ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... invitos venditos atque mancipatos? Scimmerios cum maxime Rhodesii subiectos habent, puerili rei nummariae imperitia generis humani regimen expostulantes. quanta profanarum litterarum scientia pacatissima loca polluerint, non est opus dictu apud gnaros. quid meliora ab iis expectatis qui Hiberniam nuper [praemii nomen] occupaverunt? eandem nobis Brigantes necessitatem imponent, gradum capessendi. et baccalaureos videbimus." tum ad iuvenes conversus "eone ventum esset" interrogat "ut antiquissima ...
— The Casual Ward - academic and other oddments • A. D. Godley
... similar to those in use on the St. Lawrence canals. They are suspended from anchors at the hollow quoins, and work very easily. The miter sills are made of 26 in. square oak. The bottom of the lower lock iis timbered throughout, but the upper one only at the recesses, the rock ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various
... mihi animus fuit, imo et a Patribus, qui me miserunt, severe prohibitum mihi est, ut ne reipublicae ac politicae huius regni administrationis negotiis me immisceam: nam et aliena haec sunt a vocationis meae instituto, et iis ...
— Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name • Edmund Campion
... talk. But Ulysses Aldrovandus[A] is so far from believing his Ape Pygmies ever spoke, that he utterly denies, that there were ever any such Creatures in being, as the Pygmies, at all; or that they ever fought the Cranes. Cum itaque Pygmaeos (saith he) dari negemus, Grues etiam cum iis Bellum gerere, ut fabulantur, negabimus, & tam pertinaciter id negabimus, ut ...
— A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients • Edward Tyson
... such defamatory verses. Suetonius likewise makes mention of it thus:- Sparsos de se in curia famosos libellos, nec exparit, et magna cura redarguit. Ac ne requisitis quidem auctoribus, id modo censuit, cognoscendum posthac de iis qui libellos aut carmina ad infamiam cujuspiam sub alieno nomine edant. "Augustus was not afraid of libels," says that author, "yet he took all care imaginable to have them answered, and then decreed that for the time to come the authors of them should be punished." But Aurelius makes ...
— Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry • John Dryden |
