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...nostra Elizabetha Agassiz-quae pro suffragio, pro dignitate muliebri, pro educatione puellarum et doctrina quae pueris foret aequa fortissime contendistis. In universitate Harvardiana, in patria, in orbeterrarum, status feminarum plerumque inferior dudum habetur. Mulieres se contemnere didicerunt. Copiae et honores et titulihominibus dati tamen feminis sunt negati . . . Arma nondum licet deponere, meae sorores, nee proeliurn tarn Ion-gum tamque difficile nobis est relin-quendum. Ubique flagrat iniqua virorum dominatio...
...from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous in its material condescension toward all, but firm when, even at the costs of torments of martyrdom, it has to say: 'Non licet! It is not allowed...
Author Baring went to Eton and is still very proud of it. He seems to be unashamed of having been an undergraduate at "both Universities" (Oxford & Cambridge), a feat few Englishmen would care to mention. He tried Oxford first, "was ploughed" (flunked out) when he translated socordiam eorum inridere licet ?"It is licentious to laugh at a sister of mercy"?put his answers in the Divinity paper into such rhymes...
BOSTONIAE sunt duo medici - non medici similia morbis adhibentes remedia, sed discipuli Aesculapii veri - Germani, viri optimi, probi atque honesti, artis peritissimi medicinae, quorum alterum Doctorem A., alterum Doctorem B., nominabimus. Licet ambo sint scurrae, tamen Doctor A. Doctori B. praestat. Infeliciter alter alteri invidet, neque alter occasionem alterius petulantibus vocibus consectandi praetermittit. Jam paucis diebus ante cum convivis aliis hospites amici fuerunt. Ridetur, editur, potatur, ut omnes non minus animo quam ventre delectentur. Sermonis cursu a Doctore B. rogatus, ut fabellam narraret, "Fabella digna, quam narrem," Doctor A. respondet, "mihi non est; mihi autem somnium proxima nocte mirum fuit...
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