"Nisi" Quotes from Famous Books
... facta sunt: imo quia naturae potentia nulla est nisi ipsa Dei potentia. Certum est nos eatenus Dei potentiam non intelligere, quatenus causas naturales ignoramus; adeoque stulte ad eandem Dei potentiam recurritur, quando rei alicuius causam naturalem, sive est, ipsam Dei potantiam ignoramus.— Spinosa, "Tract. Theologico-Pol." ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... nisi bonum." When For me this end has come and I am dead, And the little voluble, chattering daws of men Peck at me curiously, let it then be said By some one brave enough to speak the truth: Here lies a great soul ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas
... "De mortuis ml nisi bonum," he said gravely. "Otherwise, I should say that it would be simpler to give you a list of the people who didn't." He spared a regretful glance for Bolt's hurt little exclamation. "I know it jars on you just now, but truth is truth. I've ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston
... masterly ease, clearness, and skill, a patent case, or some other important matter, before a special jury; and immediately after resuming his seat, you would see him go perhaps into an adjoining court of Nisi Prius, in which also he was engaged as leading counsel, and where he would quickly ascertain the exact position of the case—and effectively cross-examine or re-examine a witness, or object to or support ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various
... disputationes vertantur; ab illis caetera, per media, deriventur; via certe compendiaria, sed praecipiti, et ad naturam impervia, ad disputationes proclivi et accommodata. At, secundum nos, axiomata continenter et gradatim excitantur, ut non, nisi postremo loco, ad maxime generalia veniatur." Can any words more exactly describe the political reasonings of Mr Mill than those in which Lord Bacon thus describes the logomachies of the schoolmen? Mr Mill springs at once to a general principle of the widest extent, and from that general ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 2 (of 4) - Contributions To The Edinburgh Review • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... alias sustentati." Innocent III. and Gregory IX. had vainly denounced the same abuses, and tried to stop them: "Clerici officia vel commercia saecularia non exerceant, maxime inhonesta. Mimis, joculatoribus et histrionibus non intendant. Et tabernas prorsus evitent, nisi forte causa necessitatis in itinere constituti." Richter and Friedberg, "Corpus ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... not be imputed to a mere mistake or misanimadversion, as where persons break open a door, in order to execute a warrant, which will not justify such proceeding: Affectio enim tua nomen imponit operi tuo: item crimen non contrahitur nisi nocendi, voluntas intercedat, which, as I understand, may read: For your violation puts the name upon your act; and a crime is not committed unless the will of the offender takes part in it. (1 Hawk. P. C., p. ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... Ideo primam (posteriorem) modo descriptam tremoris speciem, quando quiescenti homini involuntariis illis et alternis motibus agitantur membra, palpitationem ([Greek: palmon]) dixit, posteriorem (primam) vero, quae non fit nisi homo conetur partes quasdam movere ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — An Essay on the Shaking Palsy • James Parkinson
... Jowett, in a certain place, adopts a principle, the soundness of which I am able, happily, entirely to admit. "Interpret Scripture from itself,—like any other book about which we know almost nothing except what is derived from its pages." (p. 382.) "Non nisi ex Scriptur ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon
... nostra nos amatores colunt: Hec vbi immutata est, illi suum animum alio conferunt. Nisi prospectu[m] est interea aliquid nobis, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde
... very creditable to me, and even Sir Patrick was regarded as one to be honored as an accomplice. It is a charming novelty in every life to have the better class of one's own kind come into it, and nobody feels so keenly as a jolly Romany that jucundum nihil est nisi quod ref icit varietas—naught pleases us ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland
... Kincardine, that eminent Royalist whose character is given by Burnet in his History of his own Times. From him the blood of Bruce flows in my veins. Of such ancestry who would not be proud? And, as Nihil est, nisi hoc sciat alter, is peculiarly true of genealogy, who would not be glad to seize a fair opportunity to let it be known "] then a child of about four months old. She had the appearance of listening to him. His motions ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell
... pure non putans facere contra aliqua nostra ordinamenta cum galeis que de Ermenia venerunt portavit Venecias tantum piperis et lanae quod constitit supra soldos xxv grossorum tanquam forenses (?). Et officiates Levantis dicunt quod non possunt aliud dicere nisi quod solvat. Sed consideratis bonitate et legalitate dicti Manulli, qui mercatores cum quibus stetit fideliter servivit, sibi videtur pecatum quod debeat amittere aliud parum quod tam longo tempore ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... solitudo et vastitas futura sit si nihil relinquitur nisi quod iudex severus absolverit (I., ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee
... nisi bonum!" reproved Humphreys gravely. "The poor chap has gone to answer for his sins, whatever they may have been, and there is an end of him, so far as you are concerned. To rail at him now, and speak of him disparagingly, will not hurt him, or do you any ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Adventures of Dick Maitland - A Tale of Unknown Africa • Harry Collingwood
... potest jure locum habere, nisi ex delicto gravi quod ultimum supplicium aliquo modo meretur: quia Libertas ex naturali aestimatione proxime accedit ad vitam ipsam, & eidem a ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams
... a well compact bodie, what need a man distinguish and number all the bones and veines severally? Quae veritati operam dat oratio, incomposita sit et simplex [Footnote: Sen. Epist. xl] Quis accurate loquitur nisi qui vult putide loqui [Footnote: Ib. Epist. ixxr.] "The speach that intendeth truth must be plaine and unpollisht: Who speaketh elaborately, but he that meanes to speake unfavourably?" That eloquence offereth ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various
... translated in some dictionaries as, "the German war-song." From the following passage extracted from Facciolati, it would seem, however, that German critics repudiate this idea: "De barito clamore bellico, seu, ut quaedam habent exemplaria, bardito, nihil audiuimus nunc in Germania: nisi hoc dixerimus, quod bracht, vel brecht, milites Germani appellare consueverunt; concursum videlicet certantium, et clamorem ad pugnam descendentium; quem bar, bar, bar, sonuisse nonnulli affirmant."—(Andr. Althameri, Schol. ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus • Tacitus
... stultus inania jactat: Ecce potens factus, fuero cum talia nactus, Vinciar uxori quantum queo nobiliori: Tunc sobolem gignam, se meque per omnia dignam, Cujus opus morum genus omne pribit avorum. Cui nisi tot vit fuerint insignia rite, Fustis hic absque mora feriet caput ejus et [h]ora. Quod dum narraret, dextramque minando levaret, Ut percussisset puerum quasi prsto fuisset Vas in prdictum manus ejus dirigit ictum Servatumque sibi ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... et tibi et mihi videar, nisi quanto me gaudio affecerint quos nuper mihi honores (te credo auctore) decrevit Senatus Academicus, Iiterarum, quo lamen nihil levius, officio, significem: ingratus etiam, nisi comitatem, qua vir eximius[831] mihi vestri testimonium amoris in manus ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... Apologeticum, the greatest of his earlier works, and, upon the whole, his masterpiece, was composed towards the beginning of this persecution, in the last years of the second century. The terms in which its purport is stated, Quod religio Christiana damnanda non sit, nisi qualis sit prius intelligatur, might lead one to expect a grave and reasoned defence of the new doctrine, like that of the Octavius. But Tertullian's strength is in attack, not in defence; and his apology passes almost at ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail
... exegi, quod nec Jovis ira nec ignes, Nec poterit ferrum, nec edax abolere vetustas. Cum volet illa dies, quae nil nisi corporis hujus Jus habet, incerti spatium mihi finiat aevi; Parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis Astra ferar nomenque ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee
... the other, with a shrug, "de mortuis nil nisi bonum; but as touching beauty, in what sense do you ask ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Emigrants Of Ahadarra - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton
... who was half-distracted on account of this piece of expense, went up to the schoolmaster, and, grinning in his face, pronounced with great emphasis—"Semper avarus eget." To which the pedant replied, with a malicious smile—"Animum rege, qui, nisi paret, imperat." ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett
... PALLIDUS (Lindl. MS.) foliis planis glabris ligula nulla nisi squamula quadam, panicula effusa ramis brevibus alternis verticillatisque scabriusculis, paleis truncatis altera ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell
... in orbem detracto juvatur, crascescens enim praestringit & strangulat, intra triennium iterum repletur: Caudex ubi adolescit crassus, cortex superior densus carnosus, duos digitos crassus, scaber, rimosus, & qui nisi detrahatur dehiscit, alioque subnascente expellitur, interior qui subest novellus ita rubet ut arbor minio picta videatur. Which Histories, if well consider'd, and the tree, substance, and manner ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... firmiter praecipimus et concedimus ut omnes LIBERI HOMINES totius Monarchiae regni nostri praedicti habeant et teneant terras suas et possessiones suas bene et in pace, liberi ab omni, exactione iniusta et ab omni Tallagio: Ita quod nihil ab eis exigatur vel capiatur nisi servicium suum liberum quod de iure nobis facere debent et facere tenentur et prout statutum est eis et illis a nobis datum et concessum iure haereditario imperpetuum per commune consilium totius regni nostri praeicti."] it ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Landholding In England • Joseph Fisher
... of property, provided it can have a cause, can have but one—Dominium non potest nisi ex una causa contingere. I can possess by several titles; I can become proprietor by only one—Non ut ex pluribus causis idem nobis deberi potest, ita ex pluribus causis idem potest nostrum esse. The field which ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon
... parens patitur per somnia multum, Quod nihil in ventre sit, nisi grande caput; Et tam grande caput, et tanto robore forte, Quod puer ex ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood - Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter • J. Conway Walter
... me not of empires grand, Of proud dominion wide and far, Of those who sway the fertile land Where melons three for twopence are. To rule like this I ne'er aspire, In fact my book it would not suit! The only rule that I desire, Is a rule nisi ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... gaudia"—the expression of Attila in his harangue to his army, previous to the battle of Chalons, given in Cassiodorus. ["Nisi ad certaminis hujus gaudia praeparasset."—Attilae Oratio ad Hunnos, caput xxxix., Appendix ad Opera Cassiodori, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron
... the Emperor. But Irenaeus could hardly have expressed himself so, if he had meant nothing more than this. The succeeding Emperor, Antoninus Pius (A.D. 138-161), spent his time almost entirely in Italy. Capitolinus says of him: 'Nec ullas expeditiones obiit, nisi quod ad agros suos profectus et ad Campaniam,' Vit. Anton. 7. He appears however to have gone to Egypt and Syria in the later years of his reign (Aristid. Op. i. p. 453, ed. Dind.), and the account of John Malalas would seem ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Essays on "Supernatural Religion" • Joseph B. Lightfoot
... in manu mecum fero, Sed me versus crucem gero: Vestimenta nudus oro, Opem debilis imploro, Fontem Christi quaero immundus, Nisi laves, moribundus. ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... quod Odenatus Persos vicit, ac Sapore fugato Ctesiphontem usque pervenit. Possum asserere, tanto apud Orientalis et Egyptiorum populos timori mulierem fuisse, ut se non Arabes, non Sarraceni, non Armeni commoverent. Nec ego illi vitam conservassem nisi eam scissem multum Rom. Repub. profuisse, quurn sibi, vel liberis suis Orientis servaret ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware
... libros vendere dare vel impignorare. Cantor non potest libros accommodare nisi pignore, quod tanti vel majoris fuerit, reposito. Tutius est pignori incumbere quam in personam agere. Hoc autem licet facere tantum vicinis ecclesiis vel excellentibus ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... the fourth week, to General Ford's satisfaction, and Bart was then set to try his teeth on Buller's "Nisi Prius," made up of the most condensed of all possible abstracts of intricate cases, stated in the fewest possible words, and those of old legal significance, the whole case often not occupying more ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle
... decus Gentis legatae; te sine, languidum Moeret tribunal, et cubili In viduo Themis ingemiscit. Denso cientes agmine cursitant, Et sempiternas te sine consuunt Lites, neque hic discordiarum Finis erit, nisi tu revertas. Sed te nivosum per mare, per vias Septentrionum, per juga montium, Inhospitales per recessus Duxit amor patriae decorus. Legatus oras jam Sueonum vides Bruma sepultas; mox quoque Galliam, Hispaniam mox cum Britannis Foedere perpetuo ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. • Bulstrode Whitelocke
... saw; I take it reverently in my hand, gently I open it; my eyes are dim with excitement as I glance over chapter-headings, and anticipate the treat which awaits me. Who, more than I, has taken to heart that sentence of the Imitatio—"In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft • George Gissing
... nascimur ejulantes, ut nostram miseriam exprimamus. Masculus enim recenter natus dicit A; foemina vero E; dicentes E vel A quotquot nascuntur ab Eva. Quid est igitur Eva nisi heu ha? Utrumque dolentis est interjectio doloris exprimens magnitudinem. Hinc enim ante peccatum virago, post peccatum Era meruit appellari.... Mulier autem ut naufragus, cum parit tristitiam habet," &c.—De Contemptu Mundi, lib. i. c. 6., a Lothario, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 • Various
... ridicula adspersam superstitione, habebant de iride. Ajebant illam esse Aramam feminam, solis conjugem, cujus officium sit terras a viro exustas imbrium beneficio recreare. Cum enim viderent arcum illum non nisi pluvio tempore in conspectu venire, et tunc arborum cacuminibus velut insidere, persuadebant sibi aquarum illum esse Praesidem, arboresque proceras omnes sua in tutela habere." Franc. Xav., Eder, Descriptio ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton
... to Cleon in this play are noteworthy. The great Demagogue was now dead, having fallen in the same action as the rival Spartan general, the renowned Brasidas, before Amphipolis, and whatever Aristophanes says here of his old enemy is conceived in the spirit of 'de mortuis nil nisi bonum.' In one scene Hermes is descanting on the evils which had nearly ruined Athens and declares that 'The Tanner' was the cause of them all. But Trygaeus interrupts him with ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al
... propere januam hanc Orci, obsecro: Nam equidem haud aliter esse duco: quippe quo memo advenit Nisi quem spes reliquere omnes." ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Notes & Queries, No. 43, Saturday, August 24, 1850 • Various
... Cuncti pene patres, ea cum reprehendere coner, Quae gravis AEsopus, quae doctus Roscius egit: Vel quia nil rectum, nisi quod placuit sibi, ducunt; Vel quia turpe putant parere minoribus, et, quae Imberbes didicere, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... case," observed Lansing, "it might be best to shift the centre of gossip. De mortuis nil nisi bonum—which is simple enough ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... more civilized communities such sayings are current as "talk of the Devil, and he will appear," with which we may also compare such expressions as "Eumenides" or "gracious ones" for the Furies, and other like euphemisms. Indeed, the maxim nil mortuis nisi bonum had most likely at one time a ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske
... in spiritum est omnino impossibile. Non enim transeunt invicem nisi quae in materia communicant. Spiritualium autem et corporalium non potest esse communicatio in materia, cum substantiae spirituales sint omnino immaterialia. Impossibile est igitur quod corpus humanum transeat in substantiam spiritualem.... Similiter etiam impossibile ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Happiness of Heaven - By a Father of the Society of Jesus • F. J. Boudreaux
... Industry Commission Bill through all its stages without a pause. Then Lord DEVONPORT expatiated on the mistakes of the Food Controllers with such a wealth of illustration that the LORD CHANCELLOR, who is fond of Classical "tags," was heard to murmur, "Omnium consensu capax imperil nisi imperasset." ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156., March 5, 1919 • Various
... my fancy deceives me)—Ver. 668. "Nisi me animus fallit." He comically repeats the very same words with which Sostrata commenced in the ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Comedies of Terence - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes • Publius Terentius Afer, (AKA) Terence
... saith, To respect persons is not good; for such a man will transgress for a piece of bread. It is most true, that was anciently spoken, A place showeth the man. And it showeth some to the better, and some to the worse. Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset, saith Tacitus of Galba; but of Vespasian he saith, Solus imperantium, Vespasianus mutatus in melius; though the one was meant of sufficiency, the other of manners, and affection. It is ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Essays - The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. - Verulam Viscount St. Albans • Francis Bacon
... non potest remittere ullam culpam nisi declarando, et approbando remissam a deo Aut certe remittendo casus reservatos sibi, quibus contemptis ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Martin Luther's 95 Theses • Martin Luther
... et quidem in coetu, spectante populo... Cum redintegratione membrorum virium quoque repraesentationem pollicebatur: Exsurge et tolle grabatum tuum;—simul et animi vigorem ad non timendos qui dicturi erant: Qui dimittet peccata nisi solus deus?... Cum Judaei merito retractarent non posse hominem delicta dimittere sed deum solum, cur... respondit, habere eum potestatem dimittendi delicta, quando et filium hominis ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Gospels in the Second Century - An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work - Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' • William Sanday
... horum (quod sacramentis peculiare est verbum) Elementum, et Gratiam invisibilem. Quod verbum nos docet, et promittit nobis, hoc Elementum seu visibile signum similitudine quadam demonstrat, hoc idem Gratia quoque (nisi tamen obicem objiciat homo) in ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 • Various
... 13 under-secretaries of State; the Prefet of Police; 24 prefets and commissaries sent into the provinces; and 36 other high functionaries; belonged to the legal profession. The natural consequence of this is that we cannot get out of "Nisi prius." Our rulers are unable to take a large statesmanlike view of the situation. They live from hand to mouth, and never rise above the expedients and temporizing policy of advocates. They are perpetually engaged in appealing against the stern logic of facts to some imaginary tribunal, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... the appointment of a higher superior, so too it behooves him to be subject to the latter's authority in laying aside the accepted charge for the reasons given above. Hence Innocent III says (Extra, de Renunt., cap. Nisi cum pridem): "Though thou hast wings wherewith thou art anxious to fly away into solitude, they are so tied by the bonds of authority, that thou art not free to fly without our permission." For the Pope alone can dispense from the perpetual vow, by ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... nullum animal nisi aestu recedente expirare affirmat; observatum id multum in Gallico Oceano et duntaxat in homine ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne
... obrutum, tot hallucinationibus demersum, tot adhuc tenebris circumfusum studium hocce mihi visum est, ut nihil satis tuto in hac materia praestari posse arbitratus sim, nisi nova quadam arte critica praemissa."—SCIPIO ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... sleep, my grateful heart expands with the consciousness that there is no adjourned Debate, no ministerial explanation, nobody to give notice of intention to ask the noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's Government five-and-twenty bootless questions in one, no term time with legal argument, no Nisi Prius with eloquent appeal to British Jury; that the air will to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, remain untroubled by this superabundant generating of Talk. In a minor degree it is a delicious triumph ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens
... Albigenses had become strong in their heresy and in power." But Benvenuto says nothing of the sort; his words are, "Idest, ubi erant majores Haeretici, vel ratione scientiae, vel potentiae. Non enim fecit sicut quidam moderni Inquisitores, qui non sunt audaces nec solertes, nisi contra quosdam divites denariis, pauperes amicis, qui non possunt facere magnam resistentiam, et extorquent ab eis pecunias, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various
... juxta igneum, cujus vestem ignis intrabat. Dixit socius suus, "Vis audire rumores?" "Ita," inquit, "bonos et non alios." Cui alius, "Nescio nisi malos." "Ergo," inquit, "nolo audire." Et quum bis aut ter ei hoc diceret, semper idem respondit. In fine, quum sentiret vestem combustam, iratus ait socio, "Quare non dixisti mihi?" "Quia (inquit) dixista quod noluisti audire rumores nisi placentes ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Book of Noodles - Stories Of Simpletons; Or, Fools And Their Follies • W. A. Clouston
... of the schools: Nihil appetimus nisi sub ratione boni; Nihil aversamur nisi sub ratione mali, and it is used often correctly, but often also in a manner injurious to philosophy, because the expressions boni and mali are ambiguous, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Critique of Practical Reason • Immanuel Kant
... one from within, the other from without the Alps, against a scrupulosity so unreasonable. "Carent," said Politian, "quae scribunt isti viribus et vita, carent actu, carent effectu, carent indole . . . Nisi liber ille praesto sit ex quo quid excerpant, colligere tria verba non possunt . . . Horum semper igitur oratio tremula, vacillans, infirma . . . Quaeso ne ista superstitione te alliges . . . Ut bene currere non ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... and built a little blaze all by themselves, and there talked gravely over the strange events of the summer now so fully set before them in those volumes from Russell. All Wolf's wild infatuation. All Gleason's cunning malice, and—ah! De mortuis nil nisi bonum. May God forgive him! All Ray's loyal and devoted services, and his cruel suffering and wrongs. What wonder was it that for days the regiment could talk of nothing but Ray? What wonder that they could not fathom ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Marion's Faith. • Charles King
... observing him since his first appearance in politics. Stephen T. Logan "had that old-fashioned, lawyer-like morality which was keenly intolerant of any laxity or slovenliness of mind or character." He had, "as he deserved, the reputation of being the best nisi prius lawyer in the state."(4) After watching the gifted but ill-prepared young attorney during several years, observing the power he had of simplification and convincingness in statement, taking the measure of his scrupulous honesty—these were ever Lincoln's strong cards as a lawyer—Logan ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
... classical authorship, how justly applicable are the words of Cicero in his "De Oratore," to the vastness and variety of Burke's attainments! "Ac mea quidem sententia, nemo poterit esse omni laude cumulatus orator, nisi erit OMNIUM RERUM MAGNARUM ATQUE ARTIUM SCIENTIAM CONSECUTUS."—Cic. "De Orat." lib. i. cap. 6. Equally descriptive of Burke's power in raising the dormant sensibilities of our moral nature by his intuitive perception of what that nature really and fundamentally is, are the following ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke
... Epistemon, it had cost me a pint of the best tripe that ever can enter into gut, so we had but compared with the original the dreadful chapters, Execrabilis, De multa, Si plures; De annatis per totum; Nisi essent; Cum ad monasterium; Quod delectio; Mandatum; and certain others, that draw every year out of France to Rome four hundred thousand ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... Indians through the eyes; and hence it seems worthy of consideration that it was the apostle St. Thomas whom our Lord [229] had prepared for the teaching of the Indians—he who desired that the belief in his glorious resurrection might enter through the eyes: Nisi videro ... non ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin
... quotes the personal information of our Sir David Lindesay: 'In iis, (i.e. qui propius astiterant) fuit David Lindesius, Montanus, homo spectatae fidei et probitatis, nec a literarum studiis alienus, et cujus totius vitae tenor longissime a mentiendo aberat; a quo nisi ego haec uti tradidi, pro certis accepissem, ut vulgatam vanis rumoribus fabulam omissurus eram."— Lib. xiii. The King's throne, in St. Catherine's aisle, which he had constructed for himself, with twelve stalls ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Marmion • Sir Walter Scott
... Veronica, was Alexander, Earl of Kincardine, that eminent Royalist whose character is given by Burnet in his History of his own Times. From him the blood of Bruce flows in my veins. Of such ancestry who would not be proud? And, as Nihil est, nisi hoc sciat alter, is peculiarly true of genealogy, who would not be glad to seize a fair opportunity to let it be known. BOSWELL. Boswell visited Holland in 1763. Ante, i. 473. Burnet says that 'the Earl was both the wisest and the worthiest man that belonged to his country, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell
... ceases to be valid after the child reaches the age of thirteen, but the justices may in the order direct the payments to be continued until the child is sixteen years of age. An appeal to quarter sessions is open to the defendant, and a further appeal on questions of law to the King's Bench by rule nisi or certiorari. Should the child afterwards become chargeable to the parish, the sum due by the father may be received by the parish officer. When a bastard child, whose mother has not obtained an order, becomes chargeable to the parish, the guardians may proceed against the putative ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... Vain is our glory)—Ver. 12. "Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria." This line is said to have been found copied on a marble stone, as part of a sepulchral inscription, at Alba Julia or Weissenburg, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Fables of Phdrus - Literally translated into English prose with notes • Phaedrus
... bonus, sed more eo perductus, ut non tantum recte facere possim, sed nisi recte facere non ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth
... nemo vidit umquam: nisi unicus filius solus, sinum patris ipse enarravit.'—(Comp. Tertullian:—'Solus filius patrem novit et sinum patris ipse exposuit' (Prax. c. 8. Cp. c. 21): but he elsewhere (ibid. c. 15) exhibits the passage in the usual ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon
... Reading of the Ministry of Health Bill Mr. J.H. THOMAS made a rather ungracious allusion to the Local Government Board. De moribundis nil nisi bonum should have been his motto, especially as the old Department has done splendid work (and never better than in recent times under Sir HORACE MONRO) for the health and comfort of His ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 16, 1919 • Various
... few young men please you also. It was an advantage to me here to follow the example of that fellow-citizen of yours in those orations which he called his Philippics. In these he brightened himself up, and discarded his 'nisi prius' way of speaking, so that he might achieve something more dignified, something more statesman-like. So I have done with these speeches of mine which may be called 'consulares,'" as having been made not only in his consular year but also with something of ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope
... under his accurate eye,—his concern for good letters, exhibited in fantastic parodies of affectations, mannerisms, absurdities of plot, and vices of style in modern poets and novelists,—his "nil nisi bonum," and, where there is no "bonum," his silent "nil," of the dead, whom when living he pursued with unrelenting raillery,—his cool, eclectic judgments, freedom from extremes, and other manifestations of clear-headedness ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 • Various
... the outset by the chemists, is, moreover, assuring its triumph by important conquests in the domain of chemistry itself. It permits us to give a vivid explanation of chemical reaction, and for the old motto of the chemists, "Corpora non agunt, nisi soluta," it substitutes a modern one, "It is especially the ions which react." Thus, for example, all salts of iron, which contain iron in the state of ions, give similar reactions; but salts such as ferrocyanide of potassium, in which ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare
... Et sine quo superum non adeunda domus. Frenduit hoc trina monstrum Latiale corona Movit & horrificum cornua dena minax. Et nec inultus ait temnes mea sacra Britanne, Supplicium spreta relligione dabis. Et si stelligeras unquam penetraveris arces, Non nisi per flammas triste patebit iter. O quam funesto cecinisti proxima vero, Verbaque ponderibus vix caritura suis! 10 Nam prope Tartareo sublime rotatus ab igni Ibat ad aethereas ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Poemata (William Cowper, trans.) • John Milton
... the convent of the Incarnation, contain the following rule with regard to the reception and training of novices: [8] Consulimus quod recipiendus ante susceptionem habitus expediat se de omnibus quae habet in saeculo nisi ex causa rationabili per priorem generalem vel provincialem fuerit aliter ordinatum. There was, indeed, good reason in the case of St. Teresa to postpone these legal matters. Her father was much opposed to her becoming a nun, but considering his piety it might have been expected that ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila
... abroad to render "Caesar's things" to foreign Caesars, demand such total bankruptcy that we must needs repudiate the just debts of home creditors, whose chimneys smoke just beyond the fence that divides us? De mortuis nil nisi bonum is a traditional and sacred duty to departed workers; but does it exhaust human charity, or require contemptuous crusade against equally honest, living toilers? Are antiquity and foreign birthplace imperatively essential factors in the award of praise for even faithful and ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... difficilis circa montem; cujus latera omnia horti 50 acrarum circumeunt, nisi versus Aquilonem, quo ascenditur ad ostium aedium ubi etiam antiqua jauna arcuato lapide. Versus Occidentem 8 fenestrae et 3 in sacello; et ulterior pars vetusta. Versus Aquilonem 10 fenestrae. Facies Australis et Turris de Staunton, in qui archiva familiae reponuntur, extructa ante annos ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 • Various
... ipsa Ratio (says the elegant and sensible Quintilian speaking of Eloquence) tam nos juvaret, nisi quae concepissemus mente, promere etiam loquendo possemus,—ita, ut non modo orare, sed quod Pericli contigit fulgerare, ac tonare videamur. Institut. Orat. Lib. XI. ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients • John Ogilvie
... been added every Vice-President but two. Upon those who have died in office eulogies have been pronounced in this Chamber and in the House. The speakers have obeyed the rule demanded by the decencies of funeral occasions—nil de mortuis nisi bonum—if not the command born of a tenderer pity for human frailty—jam parce sepulto. But in general, with scarcely and exception, the portraitures have been true and faithful. They prove that the people of the American ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... that Henry had invented this plot against his throne and life. The Ambassador, in a spirit of prophecy, quoted the saying of Domitian: "Misera conditio imperantium quibus de conspiratione non creditor nisi occisis." ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... customary to render to the State, except that of repelling the invasion of an enemy":—"missionem dari vicena stipendia meritis; exauctorari, qui senadena fecissent, ac retineri sub vexillo, ceterorum immunes nisi propulsandi hostis" (An. I. 36);— here we have a meaning of the word "exauctorare" very different from its sense of "a final discharge," in which it is understood by Tacitus towards the opening of his History, when he is describing the distracted state of Rome, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross
... a Commission de Lunatico Inquirendo, is timorous, and rests on prejudice. Plt., if successful, is saddled with his own costs, and sometimes with Deft.'s, and obtains no compensation. It seems clear that a jury sitting at Nisi Prius can deal as well with the main fact as can a jury sitting by the order of the Chancellor; and I need not say the costs will go with their verdict, to say nothing of the damages, which may be heavy. On the other hand, an indictment is hazardous; and ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... republica putem dictum, et quo possim longius progredi, nisi sit confirmatum, non modo falsum esse illud, sine injuria non posse, sed hoc verissimum, sine summa justitia rempublicam regi non posse."—Cic. Frag. lib. ii. ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations • James Mackintosh
... Greece named Kalergy his aide-de-camp, and as he was much attached to the president, he was entrusted with the command of the cavalry sent against Poros and Nisi, when those places took up arms against the arbitrary and tyrannical conduct of Capodistrias. We are not inclined to apologize for the disorders which the Greek cavalry then committed; they were unpardonable even during the excitement of a ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... cluster of citations, which as taken from books, not in common use, may contribute to the reader's amusement, as a voluntary before a sermon: "Dolet mihi quidem deliciis literarum inescatos subito jam homines adeo esse, praesertim qui Christianos se profitentur, et legere nisi quod ad delectationem facit, sustineant nihil: unde et discipline severiores et philosophia ipsa jam fere prorsus etiam a doctis negliguntur. Quod quidem propositum studiorum, nisi mature corrigitur, tam magnum rebus incommodum dabit, quam dedit barbaries olim. Pertinax ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... a law of the twelve tables, and De mortuis nil nisi bonum is an excellent injunction—even if the dead in question be nothing but dead small beer. It is not my design, therefore, to vituperate my deceased friend, Toby Dammit. He was a sad dog, it is true, and a dog's ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... fingers with the candidate, cross your arms, and say, "De mortuis, nil nisi bonum; [i.e., concerning the dead, say nothing but good.] Prelate says, "Take the sword and travel onward—guard the Holy Sepulchre—defeat our enemies—unfurl the banner of our cross—protect the Roman Eagle—return to us with victory and safety." The candidates depart, go to ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Mysteries of Free Masonry - Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge • William Morgan
... it is partly spurious, but he says: "Eorum librorum, quos Boetius de geometria scripsisse dicitur, investigare veram inscriptionem nihil aliud esset nisi operam et tempus perdere." [Preface, p. v.] N. Bubnov in the Russian Journal of the Ministry of Public Instruction, 1907, in an article of which a synopsis is given in the Jahrbuch ueber die Fortschritte der Mathematik for ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Hindu-Arabic Numerals • David Eugene Smith
... altogether a better comedy and a work of higher art than the Merry Wives of Windsor. Kitely is to Ford almost what Arnolphe is to Sganarelle. (As according to the learned Metaphraste "Filio non potest praeferri nisi filius," even so can no one but Moliere be preferred or likened to Moliere.) Without actually touching like Arnolphe on the hidden springs of tragedy, the jealous husband in Jonson's play is only kept from trenching on the higher and forbidden ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... (Part I. sect. viii. Sec. 5. note n, p. 174.) is a quotation from Seneca, "O quam contempta res est homo, nisi super humana se erexerit!" which is plainly the original of the lines of Daniel, so often quoted by Coleridge ("Epistle ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Notes & Queries, No. 27. Saturday, May 4, 1850 • Various
... gloriam, divitias aut honores pugnamus, sed propter libertatem solummodo, quam nemo bonus nisi simul ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica • James Boswell
... per annum entra Adventum et Quadragesimam, ac nisi Quatuor Tempora aut Vigiliae ocurrant," etc. In all Saturdays throughout the year, except on the Saturdays of Advent, Lent, Ember Days or occurring Vigils, or unless a feast of nine lessons has to be said on the Saturday, then it is laid down in the ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley
... tradesman heaps up money, he is apt to believe that his wealth makes him free of the company of letters, and a fellow craftsman of the poets. The mark of his style is an excessive and pretentious allusiveness. It was he whom the satirist designed in that taunt, Scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter—"My knowledge of thy knowledge is the knowledge thou covetest." His allusions and learned periphrases elucidate nothing; they put an idle labour on the reader who understands ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Style • Walter Raleigh
... though recruited from less civilized districts, and though to some extent tribally organized in the early Empire, were denationalized after A.D. 70, and non-Roman elements do not begin to recur in the army till later. Tiberius militem Graece testimonium interrogatum nisi Latine ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Romanization of Roman Britain • F. Haverfield
... credibile nisi cui vidisse contigit. Lappones hyeme iter facientes per vastos montes, perque horrida et invia tesqua, eo praesertim tempore quo omnia perpetuis nivibus obtecta sunt et nives ventis agitantur et in gyros aguntur, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... any one, is the weakest of the Indefinites, and stands usually in combination with si, nisi, ne, num; as,— ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett
... meditation, and doing the will of God in all things, we must kindle his perfect love in our souls. (Opusc. 17 & 18; His works are printed in nineteen volumes folio.) 10. Bene scripsisti de me, Thoma: quam mercedem addipies? Non aliam, nisi te Domine. 11. Psalm cxxxi. 14. 12. Conf. l. 10, c. 28. 13. There is another commentary on the same book which sometimes bears his name, and begins: Sonet vox tua in auribus meis: which was not the work of this saint, but of Hayme{}, bishop of Halberstadt. ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler
... Festa Maji. Lectio viii. "Si ergo Nicodemus de illis multis erat qui crediderunt in nomine ejus, jam in isto Nicodemo attendamus, quare Jesus non se credebat eis. Respondit Jesus, et dixit ei: Amen, Amen dico tibi, nisi quis renatus fuerit denuo, non potest videre regnum Dei. Ipsis ergo se credit Jesus, qui nati fuerint denuo. Ecce illi crediderant in eum, et Jesus non se credebat eis. Tales sunt, omnes Catechumeni: ipsi jam credunt ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Mysticism and its Results - Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy • John Delafield
... that at a Nisi Prius, holden by one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in and for the Eastern District, a Court of Record, on the tenth day of October, in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-two, Edwin Williams, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic • George Moore
... can imagine that even in these days it may be useful to a young lawyer. There is a cynical morsel among these precepts which is worth observing, "Cito enim arescit lachryma praesertim in alienis malis;"[139] and another grandly simple, "Nihil enim est aliud eloquentia nisi copiose loquens sapientia." Can we fancy anything more biting than the idea that the tears caused by the ills of another soon grow dry on the orator's cheek, or more wise than that which tells us that eloquence is no more than wisdom speaking eloquently? Then he wrote the six Paradoxes addressed ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of Cicero - Volume II. • Anthony Trollope
... proportion of the different parts that compose the whole. In a human body, for instance, all the members must not be eyes, for there must be hands, feet, &c. So in the universe, there must be a sun for the day, but there must be also a moon for the night. Nec tibi occurrit perfecta universitas, nisi ubi majora sic praesto sunt, ut minora non desint. This is the judgment we ought to make of every part with respect to the whole. Any other view is narrow and deceitful. But what are the weak and puny designs of men, if compared to that of the creation and government ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Existence of God • Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon
... of them more truly as a nation; as does Pliny likewise. He mentions their stopping the course of the Euphrates, and diverting the stream into the channel of the Tigris. [161]Euphratem praeclusere Orcheni, &c. nec nisi Pasitigri defertur in mare. There seem to have been particular colleges appropriated to the astronomers and priests in Chaldea, which were called Conah; as we may infer from [162]Ezra. He applies it ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
... videbimus, videbimus et amabimus, amabimus et laudabimus. Ecce quod erit in fine sine fine. Nam quis alius noster est finis nisi pervenire ad regnum, cuius ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson
... "Animal lacertae figura, stellatum, numquam nisi magnis imbribus proveniens et serenitate desinens."—Pliny, "Hist. Nat.," ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift
... against badd, homes to crosses. In circuitu ambulant impij; honest by antiperistasis. Siluj a bonis et dolor meus renouatus est. Credidj propter quod locutus sum. Memoria justi cum laudibus at impiorum nomen putrescet Justitiamque omnes cupida de mente fugarunt. Non recipit stultus verba prudential nisi ea dixeris quaee uersantur in corde ejus Veritatem erne et noli vendere Qui festinat ditari non erat insons Nolite dare sanctum canibus. Qui potest capere capiat Quoniam Moses ad duritiam cordis uestri permisit uobis Obedire oportet deo magis quam hominibus. Et vniuscujusque ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
... est. Fortunam[281] citius reperias quam retineas. Cravissima est probi hominis iracundia. Homo totiens moritur, quotiens amittit suos. Homo vitae commodatus, non donatus est. Humanitatis optima est certatio. Iucundum nil est, nisi quod reficit varietas. Malum est consilium quod mutari non potest. Minus saepe pecces, si scias quod nescias. Perpetuo vincit qui utitur clementia. Qui ius iurandum servat, quovis pervenit. Ubi peccat ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler
... why we should trouble ourselves about his 'worst.' He had his weaker side like all of us, the foolish part of his nature as well as the wise; but 'de mortuis nil nisi bonum' especially applies in such cases.—I remain, dear ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends • Clement King Shorter
... Cum, sicut accepimus, Ecclesia de Gournayo nostrae Diocesis, in qua Corpus B. Hildeverti requiescit, ita graviter sit oppressa, quod ad sustentationem pauperum Clericorum ibi deservientium, necnon et ad reaedificationem dictae Ecclesiae propriae facultates non suppetant nisi fidelium subventionibus adjuvetur, maxime cum praedicta Ecclesia amiserit redditus quos in Anglia solebat percipere annuatim. Nos de omnipotentis Dei misericordia et B. Mariae semper Virginis genitricis ejus, beatorum Petri ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman
... ignominiosa matre tua; non deficiet gladius de domo tua, saeviens in te omnibus diebus vitae tuae; interficiens de semine tuo quousque Regnum tuum transferatur in Regnum alienum, cujus ritum et linguam Gens cui praesides non novit; nec expiabitur nisi longa vindicta peccatum tuum, & peccatum matris tuae, & peccatum virorum qui interfuere consilio illius nequam: Quae sicut a viro sancto praedicta evenerunt; nam Ethelredus variis praeliis per Suanum ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Old St. Paul's Cathedral • William Benham
... subjects from their allegiance till their oath, according to its true intent and meaning, has ceased to bind. If the Church has always asserted with the Apostle there is no power but from God—non est potestas nisi a Deo—she has always through her doctors maintained that it is a trust to be exercised for the public good, and is forfeited when persistently exercised in a contrary sense. St. Augustine, St. Thomas, and Suarez ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny • A. O. Brownson
... Baron—one of those Who with our laws supply us— In wig and silken gown and hose, As if at Nisi Prius. But he'd just given, off the reel, A famous judgment on Appeal: It scarce became his heightened fame ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — More Bab Ballads • W. S. Gilbert
... the maxim of Horace, 'Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus,' had been a little more frequently observed by the ancient poets, their Deities would not have been so often placed in a degrading or disgusting light before posterity. There cannot be a ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
... etiam corporum ususque balneorum non sit assiduus, sed eo quo solet intervallo temporis tribuatur, hoc est, semel in mense. Nisi infirmitatis necessitas cogat, corpus saepius non lavandum—Augustine, de monialibus, Migne, vol. ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — A Short History of Women's Rights • Eugene A. Hecker
... have displayed here the proud axiom: 'Nemo laeditur nisi a se ipso', had I not feared to offend the immense number of persons who, whenever anything goes wrong with them, are wont to exclaim, "It is no fault of mine!" I cannot deprive them of that small particle of comfort, for, were it not for it, they would soon feel hatred for themselves, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... of the Exchequer," London, 1711, p. 168: "Et quod nullus Judaeus receptetur in aliqua Villa sine speciali licentia Regis, nisi in Villis illis in quibus Judaei ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... crines, diversis in locis ecclesiisque religiose servari.... Meae fidei non unum est argumentum; nam a prima aetate ad confectam usque, e Mariana coma non pancos, ut fit, capillos pecten decussit, nisi si forte caesariem B. Virginis impexam semper perstitisse velis, quod numquam (ut inquit de Christo Diva Brigitta) super eam venit vermis, aut perplexitas, aut immunditium. At sine causa multiplicari miracula quis aequo animo feret?—Ubi vero Genetrix e vita discessit, quam sollicite pollinctrices ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. I. (of 2) • Dawson Turner
... briefed, neither was allowed to speak. Dilke's case against his accuser had to be dealt with by the counsel for the Queen's Proctor, Sir Walter Phillimore, who, though a skilled ecclesiastical lawyer, was comparatively inexperienced in the cross-examination of witnesses and in Nisi Prius procedure, and was opposed by Mr. Henry Matthews, the most skilled cross-examiner at the bar. Sir Walter Phillimore also stated publicly, and properly, that it was not his 'duty to represent and defend Sir Charles Dilke.' So strictly ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn
... have naught further to think of than the goodly words of Ecclesiastes: "Et cognovi quod non esset melius, nisi laetare et...."' The voice died dead away with the closing of the door. And as a torch passed, Throckmorton knew that the King had waited there whilst light was being made in Katharine's room. He said ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford
... Non nisi perfidia nacti penetrabile tempus, Irrupere Getae, nostras dum Rhaetia vires Occupat, atque alio ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John • Isaac Newton
... we believe Weissman fails. He essays an exegesis of each passage, though the separate explanations are naturally similar. It will suffice to quote one, that to As. 267 ff.: "Hoc nullo modo aliter mihi declarari posse videtur nisi sic: Oratio Leonidae currentis maior est quam ut arbitrari possimus currentem semper eum habuisse eam. Ex versu 290 Leonidam de celeritate sua remisisse plane apparet. Quod semel solum eum fecisse cum non satis mihi esse videatur, saepius—bis vel ter—per ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Dramatic Values in Plautus • William Wallace Blancke
... question relative to the abatement of an Impeachment by Dissolution, in which almost the whole body of lawyers [Footnote: Among the rest, Lord Erskine, who allowed his profession, on this occasion, to stand in the light of his judgment. "As to a Nisi-prius lawyer (said Burke) giving an opinion on the duration of an Impeachment—as well might a rabbit, that breeds six times a year, pretend to know any thing of the gestation of an elephant."] took the wrong, the pedantic, and the unstatesmanlike ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2 • Thomas Moore
... meretrix oblique tuens, ait Articus illi— Immemorem sponsae cupidus quam mungit adulter! Haec tua tota fides, sic sic aliena ministras! Erubuit nihil ausa palam, nisi mollia pacis Verba, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch
... voluntate aut legis multa profecti sunt: quam multam si sufferre voluissent, manere in civitate potuissent. Cf. pro Domo 30. 78 Qui cives Romani in colonias Latinas proficiscebantur, fieri non poterant Latini, nisi ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge
... e l'inchiostro, per avere quella somma che vuole.' Cp. Aen. Sylv. Picc. Ep. i. 66: 'Nihil est quod absque argento Romana Curia dedat; nam et ipsae manus impositiones et Spiritus Sancti dona venduntur, nec peccatorum venia nisi ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds
... said, De mortuis nil nisi bonum; but, while fully acknowledging the force of the remark, as also the great scientific attainments and love for natural history which distinguished the illustrious traveller, I cannot allow anyone ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne
... period the town of Lancaster has lost much of its importance. There are many objects of especial interest within the town and in the immediate district. The ancient castle (now the county gaol), once the residence of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; the Nisi Prius Court, an elegant and spacious building from a design by the late Mr. Harrison of Chester; and the old parish church, are worthy of close inspection; whilst from the castle terrace and churchyard delightful ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Rides on Railways • Samuel Sidney
... multaque beneficia ab Imperatoribus Graecorum, et Alemannorum adeptus (quippe qui etiam eum retinere pro generis amplitudine tentassent) omnia pronatalis soli desiderio spreuit. Quosdam enim profecto fallit amor patriae vt nihil eis videatur iucundum, nisi consuetum hauserint coelum. Vnde Edgarus fatua cupidine illusus Angliam redijt, vbi (vt superius dixi) diuerso fortunae ludicro rotatus, nunc remotus et tacitus, canos suos ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation. v. 8 - Asia, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt
... that thou speakest of in thy letter, which be not yet so fully known unto me, as it were speedful that they were, if I should give full counsel in this case. For it is said of the Apostle: Nemo novit quae sunt hominis, nisi spiritus hominis qui in ipso est; "No man knoweth which are the privy dispositions of man, but the spirit of the same man, the which is in himself";[236] and, peradventure, thou knowest not yet thine own inward disposition thyself, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Cell of Self-Knowledge - Seven Early English Mystical Treaties • Various
... one time considered indispensable in Africa, ubi lavandis corporibus Lybes ea utuntur; nec nisi decocto ejus abluti mane domo egrediuntur, "where the Libyans make use of it for washing their bodies, nor ever leave their houses of a morning until purified by a decoction ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... studio reuulsus eram. Attamen obseruandissime presul: Stultiferam classem (vt sum tue paternati pollicitus) iam tandem absolui et impressam ad te destinaui. Neque tamen certum laborem pro incerto premio (humano. s.) meis impossuissem humeris: nisi Seruianum illud dictum (longe anteaqam inceperam) admonuisset. Satius esse non incipere quam inceptum minus perfectum relinquere. Completo tamen opere: nec quemquam magis dignum quam tua sit paternitas existimaui cui id dedicarem: tum quia saluberrima tua prudentia, morum grauitas, vite sanctitas ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 • Sebastian Brandt
... millions of ages one after another, but for ever and ever, without any end at all, and never, never be delivered." 7 Calvin says, "Iterum quaro, unde factum est, ut tot gentes una cum liberis eorum infantibus aterna morti involveret lapsus Ada absque remedio, nisi quia Deo ita visum est? Decretum horribile fateor." 8 Outraged humanity before the contemplation cries, "O God, horror hath overwhelmed me, for thou art represented as an omnipotent Fiend." It is not the Father of Christ, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger
... countries. These monarchs are contemporary with independent Assyrian princes, and have relations toward them which are sometimes peaceful, sometimes warlike. Kara-in-das, the first of the five, is on terms of friendship with Asshur-bel-nisi-su, king of Assyria, and concludes with him a treaty of alliance. This treaty is renewed between his successor, Purna-puriyas, and Buzur-Asshur, the successor of Asshur-bel-nisi-su on the throne of Assyria. Not long ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea • George Rawlinson
... delineated with all those faults by which we must own that even our near relatives have been made imperfect. It is a general conviction as to this which so frequently turns the biography of those recently dead into mere eulogy. The fictitious charity which is enjoined by the de mortuis nil nisi bonum banishes truth. The feeling of which I speak almost leads me at this moment to put down my pen. And, if so much be due to all subjects, is less due to ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Thackeray • Anthony Trollope
... sanctitatis fuerunt et parsimoniae.... Adeo autem sacerdotes erant illius temporis ab avaritia immunes, ut nec territoria nisi coacti acciperent.—Hen. Huntingd. Lib. III. p. 333. Bed. Hist. Eccl. Lib. ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... at the siege of Troy for nine years, and it would not do now to carry back to Greece "nil decimo nisi dedecus anno." I mean I had been in search of a large serpent for years, and now having come up with one it did not become me to turn soft. So, taking a cutlass from one of the negroes, and then ranging both the sable slaves behind me, I ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton
... perfici, & vernum sacrificium semper in vere consummari, aestivum autem in aestate: similiter & in reliquis anni temporibus eadem sacrificia cadere. Hoc enim putabant acceptum & gratum esse Diis. Hoc autem aliter fieri non posset nisi conversiones solstitiales & aequinoctia in iisdem Zodiaci locis fierent. Secundum Lunam vero dies agere est tale ut congruant cum Lunae illuminationibus appellationes dierum. Nam a Lunae illuminationibus appellationes dierum sunt denominatae. In qua enim die Luna apparet nova, ea per Synaloephen, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended • Isaac Newton
... Chretien here insists upon his divergence from the famous dictum attributed to the Countess Marie de Champagne by Andre le Chapelain: "Praeceptum tradit amoris, quod nulla etiam coniugata regis poterit amoris praemio coronari, nisi extra coniugii foedera ipsius amoris militae cernatur adiuneta". (Andreae Capellini, "De Amore", p. 154; ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Four Arthurian Romances - "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot" • Chretien de Troyes
... adversariorum diffidentiam in causa loquuntur, tum nihil aeque atque sanctorum maiestas Bibliorum foedissime violata. Etenim qui, posteaquam reliquorum testium voces et suffragia contempserunt, eo sunt redacti nihilo secius, ut stare nequeant, nisi divinis ipsis codicibus vim et manus intulerint; ii se profecto declarant extrema fortuna confligere, et rebus iam desperatis ac perditis, experiri durissima velle atque ultima. Manicheis[3] quid causae fuit, ut "Evangelium Matthei et Acta refigerent Apostolica?" Desperatio. His enim voluminibus ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name • Edmund Campion
... light on the manners as well as on the linguistic attainments of the students, were overheard in the University of Paris: "Capis me pro uno alio"; "Quando ego veni de ludendo, ego bibi unum magnum vitrum totum plenum de vino, sine deponendo nasum de vitro"; "In prandendo non facit nisi lichare ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... the decree nisi. It'll be made absolute in July, and then we are going to be married ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham
... obsequium sed praeliis et periclitando tuti sunt. Reudigni, deinde, et Aviones, et Angli, et Varini, et Suardones, et Nuithones fluminibus aut sylvis muniuntur; neque quidquam notabile in singulis nisi quod in commune Hertham, id est, Terram Matrem colunt, eamque intervenire rebus hominum, invehi populis arbitrantur. Est in insula Oceani castum nemus, dicatum in eo vehiculum, veste contectum, attingere uni sacerdoti concessum. Is adesse penetrali deam intelligit, vectamque bobus feminis multa ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Ethnology of the British Islands • Robert Gordon Latham
... an ancient critic that a god should not be brought on the stage unless the occasion were such as to require the presence of a more than human power. Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus. How many such occasions we have had to notice in the course of this narrative! What a theodicaea we have in the result of all this tribulation! We see at last, a government convinced of the folly ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Awakening of China • W.A.P. Martin
... that the primitive Christians used the services of the unconverted heathen. Thus in the ship of Alexandria, in which the blessed Apostle Paul sailed to Italy, the sailors were doubtless pagans; yet what said the holy saint when their ministry was needful? —'NISI HI IN NAVI MANSERINT, VOS SALVI FIERI NON POTESTIS'— Unless these men abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. Again, Jews are infidels to Christianity, as well as Mohammedans. But there are few physicians in ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott
... specially addressed to members of the Glad Brigades and Spending Companies, which were common in the great mercantile cities of mediaeval Italy. Their tone is doubtless due to the occasion of their composition, as compliments to Messer Nicholo di Nisi and Messer Guerra Cavicciuoli. ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... Penis ejectio, ut ego comperi, lenem compressionem fuci ventris, consequitur; et fucus extemplo similis fulmine tacto, moritur. Dominus Huber saepe videbat fuci organum post congressum, in corpore feminae haesisse. Vidi semel tam firme inhaerens, ut nisi disruptione reginae ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee - A Bee Keeper's Manual • L. L. Langstroth
... although perhaps the Ghartis, above mentioned as belonging to that class of Hindus, may be of this race, as one part of the Ghartis, that still remains impure, is said to live among the Gurungs, and to have similar manners. There are, at any rate, several tribes of Gurungs, such as Nisi, Bhuji, Ghali, and Thagsi. The latter live nearest the snow; but all the Gurungs require a cold climate, and live much intermixed with the Bhotiyas on both sides of the snow-covered peaks of Emodus, and in the narrow valleys interposed, which, in the language of the country, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton
... with more vividness than reality, a thousand little traits of manner, all proofs strong as holy writ to my sanguine mind, that my affection was returned, and that I loved not in vain. Again and again I read over the entire letter; never truly did a nisi prius lawyer con over a new act of parliament with more searching ingenuity, to detect its hidden meaning, than did I to unravel through its plain phraseology the secret intention ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 1 • Charles James Lever
... valet, quidquid in eis spiritualiter sentit, maxime in silvis et in agris meditando et orando se confitetur accepisse, et in hoc nullos aliquando se magistros habuisse nisi quercus et fagos joco illo suo gratioso inter ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight
... essential for a Lord Mayor to be present, the Court of Aldermen ought to be proud of him, and elect him "Willy-Knilly" to be Lord Mayor all the same. Whatever may be the result, of Alderman KNILL nothing but good can be said. "Nil nisi bonum." ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, July 30, 1892 • Various
... with me, I know not; but the famous "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" always appeared to me to savour more of female weakness than of manly reason. He that has too much feeling to speak ill of the dead, who, if they cannot defend themselves, are, at least, ignorant ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson
... parcere hominibus," says she, "qui tibi non pepercerunt; et nec mihi nec filiis nostris parcerent, si vicissent." And elsewhere she irritates his wrath against the army as accomplices for the time, and as a body of men "qui, nisi opprimuntur, opprimunt." We may be sure of the result. After commending her zeal for her own family, he says, "Ego vero et ejus liberis parcam, et genero, et uxori; et ad senatum scribam ne aut proscriptio gravior sit, aut poena crudelior;" adding that, had his counsels ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey
... Perhaps from Tacit. Ann. ii. 33: Neque in familia et argento quaeque ad usum parantur nimium aliquid aut modicum, nisi ex fortuna possidentis. ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... Cui non immerito fertur data forma triformis, Nam pars prima leo, pars ultima cauda draconis, Et mediae partes nil sunt nisi fervidus ignis."' ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Celibates • George Moore
... recognition. When good mediocrities die, if they do not go straight to heaven (from a country where the existence of Purgatory is denied by Act of Parliament), at least they run a very fair chance of burial in Westminster Abbey. 'De mortuis nil nisi bonus,' in the shape of royalties, is the real test by which we estimate the authors who have just passed away. A few of our great writers—Ruskin and Tennyson, for example—have enjoyed the applause accorded to senility by a ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Masques & Phases • Robert Ross
... given to furnishing "opinions" on tangled cases; so pressed was he that he took "expedition fees" to give certain cases priority: an illegitimate practice that now the Bar Committee would scarcely tolerate. What could such a man know of nisi prius trials, of cross-examining or handling witnesses? It is enough to give his portrait, as ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Bardell v. Pickwick • Percy Fitzgerald
... look back. Not to give an instance which will offend any set of existing men—this merely because I can do without it—let us take the country at large. Magna Charta for ever! glorious safeguard of our liberties! Nullus liber homo capiatur aut imprisonetur ... aut aliquo modo destruatur, nisi per judicium parium ....[8] Liber homo: frank home; a capital thing for him—but how about the villeins? Oh, there are none now! But there were. Who cares for villains, or barbarians, or helots? And so ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... become a Stoic and to flee to the inaccessible stillness of the self-thinking activity and the self-moving will. Stoics and Epicureans had both what we call an ideal. The Stoics used the expression "kingdom"; as Horace says, sarcastically, "Sapiens rex est nisi—pituita molesta est." ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Pedagogics as a System • Karl Rosenkranz
... It seemed to him useless to speak to her of the High Court, five hundred miles away, and a decree nisi; it would have been a mockery of ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Soul of a People • H. Fielding
... ea memorem, quae nisi his qui videre nemini credibilia sunt, a privatis compluribus subversos montes, maria constructa[80] esse. Quibus mihi videntur ludibrio fuisse divitiae; quippe quas honeste habere licebat, abuti per turpitudinem properabant. Sed libido ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino • Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallustius)
... quis potest pati, Nisi impudicus et vorax et aleo, Mamurram habere, quod Comata Gallia Habebat uncti ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. - Poetry • George Gordon Byron
... like looking into a camera-obscura—you saw faces shining and speaking. The smoke curled, the lights dazzled, the oak wainscoting took a higher polish. There was old S., tall and gaunt, with his couplet from Pope and case at Nisi Prius; Mudford, eyeing the ventilator and lying perdu for a moral; and H. and A. taking another friendly finishing glass. These and many more windfalls of character he gave us in thought, word, and action. I remember his once describing three ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... I told him about it afterwards. He said I was drunk myself and that he heard me tumbling up the stairs to bed. Which is a lie. I did see it, and it was drunk. I heard it hiccough! I wouldn't say it was drunk if it wasn't. De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Quinny, and it would be a very dirty trick to slander a poor bogey that can't defend itself. It looked very like its descendant, Lord Middleweight, and it had the same soppy grin that he has when he thinks he's said something clever. Damned ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... that's all. I can go on sending you money—and you bring a suit, what is it?—for Restitution of Conjugal Rights. The Court orders me to return. I disobey. Then you can go on to divorce me. You get a Decree Nisi, and once more the Court tries to make me come back. If we don't make it up within six months and if you don't behave scandalously the Decree is made absolute. That's the end of the fuss. That's how one gets unmarried. It's easier, you see, to marry ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... est, nisi Naevia Rufo, Si gaudet, si flet, si tacet, hanc loquitur: Coenat, propinat, poscit, negat, annuit, una est Naevia; si non sit Naevia, mutus erit. Scriberet hesterna patri cum luce salutem, Naevia lux, inquit, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The De Coverley Papers - From 'The Spectator' • Joseph Addison and Others
... round the kitchen), "she was very whimsical, expensive, ill-tempered, and, I'm afraid, a little—upon the— flightly order—a little touched or so;—but mum for that—the lady is now dead; and it is my maxim, de mortuis nil nisi bonum. The young squire was even then very handsome, and looked remarkably well in his weepers; but he had an awkward air and shambling gait, stooped mortally, and was so shy and silent that he would not look a stranger in the face, nor open his mouth ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett
... superioribus materiam et esse causam compositi et formae dependentis ab ilia: ut res ergo dicatur ex nihilo fieri uterque modus causalitatis negari debet; et eodem sensu accipiendum est illud axioma, ut sit verum: Ex nihilo nihil fit, scilicet virtute agentis naturalis et finiti nihil fieri, nisi ex praesupposito subjecto per se concurrente, et ad compositum et ad formam, si utrumque suo modo ab eodem agente fiat. Ex his ergo recte concluditur, formas substantiales materiales non fieri ex nihilo, quia fiunt ex materia, quae in suo genere per se concurrit, et influit ad esse, ...![](http://www.diccionarioingles.com/rquot.gif) — Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley |