"Coelum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... matters of law it is different. If I, having committed a crime, were to confess my criminality to the gentleman engaged to defend me, might he not be called on to say: "Then, O my friend, confess it also to the judge; and so let justice be done. Ruat coelum, and the rest of it?" But who would pay a lawyer for counsel ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope
... fons luminis, aetherius sol, Irrigat assidue coelum candore recenti, Suppeditatque novo confestim ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... Pentecost (except in the hymn Salutis humanae Sator) the doxology is Jesu tibi sit gloria, Qui victor in coelum redis. ...
— The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley
... less security. If we look for a true and striking description of the comparative position of the principal classes of the population of Poland, we find it in these words of a writer of the eighteenth century: "Polonia coelum nobilium, paradisus ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... of most of their capacity of enjoyment, but also infallibly gives a colour and a bias to their reasonings on life; of the manner in which animal passions as well as animal spirits are affected by certain well-known conditions of age and health. In spite of the 'coelum non animum mutant' of Horace, few men fail to experience how different is the range of spirits in the limbo-like atmosphere of a London winter and beneath the glories of an Italian sky or in the keen bracing atmosphere of the mountain ...
— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
