Ethica et spiritualia partim collegit, partim conscripsit C. Wordsworth

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Page 55 - Saturnia nomen'. talibus inter se dictis ad tecta subibant pauperis Euandri passimque armenta videbant 360 Romanoque foro et lautis mugire Carinis. ut ventum ad sedes, 'haec', inquit, 'limina victor Alcides subiit, haec illum regia cepit. aude, hospes, contemnere opes et te quoque dignum finge deo rebusque veni non asper egenis'.
Page 48 - I mean to say is but this : there will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.
Page 47 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 37 - Sick or healthful, slave or free, Wealthy, or despised and poor— What is that to him or thee, So his love to Christ endure ? When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billows past...
Page 33 - Summum crede nefas animam, praeferre pudori Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
Page 11 - In it may I rejoice; Thy glory be my aim, Thy holy will my choice.
Page 44 - Nolo te declamatorem esse, et 6rabulam garrulumque sine ratione, sed mysteriorum peritum, et sacramentorum Dei tui eruditissimum. Verba volvere, et celeritate dicendi apud imperitum vulgus admirationem sui facere, 'indoctorum hominum est.
Page 14 - Lex data est ut Gratia quaereretur ; Gratia data est ut Lex impleretur.
Page 8 - Glyconis, 30 nodosa corpus nolis prohibere cheragra. est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra. fervet avaritia miseroque cupidine pectus : sunt verba et voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis et magnam morbi deponere partem.
Page 21 - Orat pro nobis, ut sacerdos noster; orat in nobis, ut caput nostrum, oratur a nobis, ut Deus noster. Agnoscamus ergo et in illo voces nostras, et voces eius in nobis.

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