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"Nihil me pœnitet hujus nasi," quoth Pamphagus; -- -- -that is -- "My nose has been the making of me. " -- -- -- -- -- "Nec est cur pœniteat," replies Cocles; that is, "How the duce should such a nose fail?"
The doctrine, you see, was laid down by Erasmus, as my father wished it, with the utmost plainness; but my father's disappointment was, in finding nothing more from so able a pen, but the bare fact itself; without any of that speculative subtlety or ambidexterity of argumentation upon it, which Heaven had bestow'd upon man on purpose to investigate truth, and fight for her on all sides.