 | George Canning - 1836 - 508 pages
...those miseries and wrongs has left on the minds of those upon whom they were actually inflicted ? " Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, Quam quse sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus." Yet the echo and report of the blows by which other countries have fallen, are supposed to have had... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 562 pages
...this opinion, for which reason I shall take a little more pains in clearing it up. The verses are, Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, Quam quse sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus. On this the Abbe du Bos founds a criticism, wherein he gives painting the preference to poetry in the... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 pages
...of those miseries and wrongs has left in the minds of those on whom they were actually inflicted ? " Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, Quam quse sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus." Yet the echo and report of the blows by which other countries have fallen, are supposed to have more... | |
 | Matthew Hutton - 1843 - 366 pages
...? Nam ut oculorum sensus est acerrimus, et unus testis oculatus pluris fit quam auriti decem ; ita segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, quam quse sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus : si philosophis, si poetis, si jurisperitis, adeoque si sacris literis ipsis credimus. Neque enim... | |
 | 1903 - 462 pages
...do away with the abuse, small consideration was given to distinctions and exceptions, " De minjmis non curat lex." The desire to instruct an ignorant...deeper emotions excited of pity, awe, and devotion. Mr. Walcott quotes the statement that " many superstitions were connected with Koods ' with rolling eyes... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 508 pages
...and repeats it ; whose evidence is merely hearsay. This verse differs from the dictum of Horace : ' Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures Quam quse sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus' — the meaning of which maxim is, that the narrative of an event, even by a personal witness, makes... | |
 | Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - 1860 - 244 pages
...glance at this map, and proper attention to the pamphlet, will do more than a hundred lectures : — ' Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, Quam quse sunt oculis subjecta. fidelibus.' " The words of the lecturer are soon forgotten and unheeded ; the written advice and the many-coloured... | |
 | George Henry Duncan Mathias - 1867 - 292 pages
...feelings previously appealed to, on the principle well embodied in the well-known Horatian lines: " Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures Quam quse sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus." It is but the few who can appreciate choice language, apt illustration, delicate satire, gorgeous metaphor,... | |
 | Johann Nave - 1869 - 232 pages
...various modes of growth to which the Diatomaceee are subject. [Acting on the Horatian maxim, that ' Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, Quam quse sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus,' I add here a few examples of the two classes of Diatoms referred to above. Figs 25, 26, Plate v., represent... | |
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The desire to instruct au ignorant and impressionable people through the eye, for everywhere " Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, Quam quse sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus," led to the introduction of devices and tricks, by means of which, as in... 
