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...ordains that "admonendi sunt subditi, ne praepositorum suorum vitam temere judicent, si quid eos fortasse reprehensibiliter vident"; in hasty translation "subjects must be admonished not to judge rashly of the conduct of their rulers, even if they see them, by chance, acting reprehensibly." In Ambrosiaster's "Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti", XXXV, the ruler "Honorandusest, si non propter se, vel propter ordinem"; "he must be honored, if not for himself, then for his position." And so it goes, everywhere in the standard ecclesiastical commentary on the Old Testament, as well as in the Old Testament itself, this same submission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/16/1933 | See Source »

...opened by ancient custom by the blue-coated, top-hatted, be-sworded High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Alfred Emanuel Smith was given an LL. D. de gree. To rousing applause Citizen Smith was saluted by a class orator: "Te quoque, Alfrede praestantissime, felix ille miles, quamquam carmina de viis Novi Eboraci cantare non possumus . . . hand minus iuvat salutare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...Alfrede praestantissime, felix ille miles." (Most illustrious Alfred, thou happy warrior). Thus was Alfred E. Smith addressed by R. S. Fitzgerald '33 in the Latin Oration at the Commencement exercises this morning. Fitzgerald went on to greet Smith in the following words: "Quamquam carmina de viis Novi Eboraci cantare non possumus, to inquam de tota nostra patria bene meritum, haud minus iuvat salutare." As translated last night, this means something like the following: "Although we cannot sing of the sidewalks (streets) of New York, as thou hast merited well of our country, it is no less a pleasure to greet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Alfrede Praestantissime, Felix Ille Miles," Orator Calls Ex-Gov. Smith | 6/22/1933 | See Source »

Danube Novi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Banus-Banat | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...observation of a famous old Roman, "ex Africa semper aliquid novi"--which might be liberally rendered as "you never can tell what will happen next" is quite as applicable now as on the day of its utterance. Some time ago the students of a western university received through the mail advertising matter from a novel variety of tutoring school, which offered, for a specified consideration, to do all their thinking. A short time afterward the faculty editors of the alumni bulletin of a well known institution were sent catalogues of one hundred prepared speeches, "suitable for any occasion", on such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENTAL MARIONETTES | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

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