); how the highest compliment was
to call a man a good agriculturist, or a good husbandman
(LOCUPLES, rich, LOCI PLENUS, PECUNIA, from PECUS, &c.); how the
pasturing of cattle secretly by night upon unripe crops was a
capital offence, punishable by hanging; how the rural tribes held
the foremost rank, while those of the city had discredit thrown
upon them as being an indolent race; and how "GLORIAM DENIQUE
IPSAM, A FARRIS HONORE, 'ADOREAM' APPELLABANT;" ADOREA, or Glory,
the reward of valour, being derived from Ador, or spelt,
a kind of grain.
(2) 'Essay on Government,' in 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.'
(3) Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' Part i., Mem. 2, Sub. 6.
(4) Ibid. End of concluding chapter.
(5) It is characteristic of the Hindoos to regard entire inaction as
the most perfect state, and to describe the Supreme Being as "The
Unmoveable."
(6) Lessing was so impressed with the conviction that stagnant
satisfaction was fatal to man, that he went so far as to say: "If
the All-powerful Being, holding in one hand Truth, and in the
other the search for Truth, said to me, 'Choose,' I would answer
Him, 'O All-powerful, keep for Thyself the Truth; but leave to me
the search for it, which is the better for me.'" On the other
hand, Bossuet said: "Si je concevais une nature purement
intelligente, il me semble que je n'y mettrais qu'entendre et
aimer la verite, et que cela seul la rendrait heureux.
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