Abeunt studia in
mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Oh, how happy!"-- she went on, clasping her hands, with a return to that more childlike impetuous manner, which had been subdued since her marriage.
She thought her husband altogether in the wrong, on more grounds than Will had mentioned.
Except that I should like not to have so much more than my share without doing anything for others.
I doubt whether Chettam would not have been more severe, and yet he comes down on me as if I were the hardest man in the county.
"Niver do you mind what he's done," said Dagley, more fiercely, "it's my business to speak, an' not yourn.
"I'm no more drunk nor you are, nor so much," said Dagley.
Lickspittling is more detestable than blackmailing, precisely as the business of a confidence man is more detestable than that of a highway robber; and the parallel maintains itself throughout, for whereas few robbers will cheat, every sneak will plunder if he dare.
Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done.
Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election"; and of that eminent man, the poet Gilder, that he has "lost his mind." It is in the former and more legitimate sense, that the word is used in the famous epitaph:
It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
For example, Bragellos avers their anatomical identity with Man, but Professor Newcomb says they are more like the hill tribes of Vermont.