Word: crede
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...digestion") wrote Caroline saying: "Correct your vanity which has be come ridiculous . . . and leave me in peace." Caroline had convulsions for a fortnight. She offered herself to any young man who would fight a duel with Byron. She put new livery on her footmen with buttons engraved: "Ne crede Byron" ("Do not believe Byron...
...this the command of the language is an absolute sine qua non. Inexperto crede. I have attempted at various times to become familiar with Greek, but have not had much success because of my late start. The more I try to understand the major monuments of the Greek world, the more I am baffled by my inability to be sure exactly what significance is to be attached to the expressions on which arguments and descriptions turn. A smattering is better than nothing, and so is a dictionary, but there is no substitute for intimacy...
HARVARD College has its Transcript, and the University of Michigan its Christian Advocate. Our Western brothers have already been accused of irreligion; "experto crede," the charge of immorality will come next; - and as the Chronicle devotes four columns to its defence on the first head, the second, being far more comprehensive, will probably call forth a supplement to the next number. This will prove the converse of "parturiunt montes"; the ridiculous and insignificant charge will bring forth a mountain of argument. The Chronicle editors, however, should learn wisdom from us, and fight the war in the enemy's country...