Surely in counsels concerning religion, that counsel of the apostle would be prefixed, Ira hominis non implet justitiam
Dei. And it was a notable observation of a wise father, and no less ingenuously confessed; that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences, were commonly interested therein., themselves, for their own ends.
Mark's and the Bridge of Sighs, and cut through the alley and come up by the church of Santa Maria dei Frari, and into the Grand Canal, there isn't a bit of current--now do come, Sally Maria--by-bye!" and then the little humbug trips down the steps, jumps into the gondola, says, under her breath, "Disagreeable old thing, I hope she won't!" goes skimming away, round the corner; and the other girl slams the street door and says, "Well, that infliction's over, any way,-- but I suppose I've got to go and see her--tiresome stuck-up thing!" Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world.
Among a long list of churches, art galleries, and such things, visited by us in Venice, I shall mention only one--the church of Santa Maria dei Frari.
Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, descend from your carriage opposite the Via
dei Pontefici, and follow the Roman peasant who snatches your torch from you.
Eternus, incorruptus, æquævus polo, Unusque et universus exemplar
Dei. - And afterwards, Non cui profundum Cæcitas lumen dedit Dircæus augur vidit hunc alto sinu, &c.
G.," wrote the bishop; and he drew a cross under these four letters, which signify ad majorem
Dei gloriam , "to the greater glory of God;" and thus he continued: "It is our pleasure that the order brought to M.
Some lesser points of the dialogue may be noted, such as (1) the acute observation that Meno prefers the familiar definition, which is embellished with poetical language, to the better and truer one; or (2) the shrewd reflection, which may admit of an application to modern as well as to ancient teachers, that the Sophists having made large fortunes; this must surely be a criterion of their powers of teaching, for that no man could get a living by shoemaking who was not a good shoemaker; or (3) the remark conveyed, almost in a word, that the verbal sceptic is saved the labour of thought and enquiry (ouden
dei to toiouto zeteseos).
Ruccazzu dei corvi of course means "the rock of the ravens." Both name and ravens still exist.
{126} The site I assign to Eumaeus's hut, close to the Ruccazzu dei Corvi, is about 2,000 feet above the sea, and commands an extensive view.
Then, at the peals of the organ the singers and the worshippers struck up the Agnes
Dei; the boys' procession began; behind them came the girls.
``Ye are friends and allies of our reverend father in God, Aymer, Prior of Jorvaulx,'' said the monk, without noticing the tone of De Bracy's reply; ``ye owe him aid both by knightly faith and holy charity; for what saith the blessed Saint Augustin, in his treatise De Civitate
Dei ''
"VOX POPULI, VOX
DEI. You are acquitted, Captain Crocker.