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ample ground of consolation; for if we look around us, we shall see many more wretched than ourselves, and feel that many blessings are still continued to us, of which we might have been bereaved. We may have calamities to deplore, we may have afflictions to support, we may have disappointments to bear, we may have misfortunes to contend with; but God is ever merciful, and "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."-M.D.

369. Beau monde. (Fr.)—“The fashionable world." This term is confined solely to the upper walks of life. To the wealthy, the gay, the dissipated, among whom we may too often number the worthless.-M.D.

370. Beaux esprits. (Fr.)-" Wits." Men of quick parts, and ready at repartee.-M.D.

371. Bella femmina che ride, vuol dir borsa che piange. (Ital. Prov.)-" A beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse." The purse is too often emptied, to ensure the continuance of the smiles. -M.D.

372. Bella! horrida bella ! (Lat.)-" Wars! horrible wars!" Motto of the Irish baron Lisle. - M.Μ.

373. Bella matribus detestata. Hor.-"Wars held in detestation by mothers." By all who suffer thereby, in fact, by all the world, save those who derive profit or emolument therefrom.-M.D.

374. Bellum internecinum. (Lat.)—“ A war of extermination." A war to be carried on until one party or the other is swept from the earth. -M.D.

375. Bellum ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud nisi pax quæsita videatur. (Lat.) -" War should be waged as if its only object was the attainment of a secure peасе."-М.

376. Bellum nec timendum, nec provocandum. PLINY.-" War is neither to be avoided in a dastardly manner, nor yet to be rashly provoked."-M.D.

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Parcâ quod satis est manu. HoR.-" It is happy for him, on whom God has bestowed a competence with a sparing hand." And blessed is the man who, possessing that competence, enjoys therewith a contented mind.-М.

378. Benefacta malè locata, malefacta arbitror. Cic.-" Favours injudiciously conferred I consider as bad acts." As for instance, the bestowing wealth on a spendthrift, or an habitual drunkard, is only enabling them to pursue their wicked courses with renovated means, and consequently, to extend more widely their evil example, and to accelerate the sad close of an ill-spent life.-M.

379. Bene ferre magnam disce fortunam. Hor.-" Learn to support with moderation your great good fortune."-M.

380. Beneficia dare qui nescit injustè petit. (Lat. Prov.)--“ He who knows not how to perform a kind act is unreasonable if he expects to receive such acts from others."-M.

381. Beneficia usque eo læta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenére, pro gratiá odium redditur. TACIT.-" Kindnesses bestowed are only acceptable so long as we think we can repay them; but when the obligation goes much beyond that point, hatred is engendered instead of gratitude." Notwithstanding the high degree of respect in which this author is held as an historiographer, I cannot at all approve of or agree to the position here laid down. For if a person in less affluent circumstances, receives from his more wealthy relative or friend, a present, or an appointment obtained through his interest, or his purse, and which the receiver can never pay for, but by his gratitude, can it be said that he is therefore to detest his benefactor? Forbid it every honest feeling of the human heart!!-M.D.

382. Beneficia plura recipit qui scit reddere. PUB. SYR.-" He receives many favours, who knows how to return them."-M.

383. Beneficio quam metu obligare homines malit, exterasque gentes fide ac societate junctas habere, quam tristi subjectas servitio. Livy." It is better to bind men by kind offices, than by fear; and to hold neighbouring states united to you in confidence and social intercourse, than that they should feel themselves subjugated as slaves." -М.

384. Beneficium accipere libertatem vendere est. DECIM. LABER.-" To accept an obligation, is to barter your liberty." This phrase, though often quoted, is far from being literally just, though it may be partially so. Its truth must hinge solely on the circumstances of the case in question, on the relative situation of the parties, on the magnitude of the obligation, and on the nature of the sacrifice expected to be made in return.-M.D.

385. Beneficium invito non datur. (Lat. Jus. Ant.) -" No obligation can be imposed upon a man who refuses to receive it."-M.D.

386. Benè nummatum decorat suadela Venusque. Hor.-" Persuasion and love hang upon the words of the wealthy suitor *."

"The goddess of persuasion forms his train,
And Venus decks the well be-money'd swain." FRANCIS.

M.D.

387. Bene si amico feceris, ne pigeat fecisse,

Ut potius pudeat si non feceris. PLAUT.-" If you have conferred a favour on your friend, never repent of having done so; no! you should rather feel that you would have been ashamed had you not done it."-M.D.

388. Benigno numine. (Lat.)" By the favour of the Deity." The motto of the first founder of the House of Chatham. - M.D.

389. Benignus etiam dandi causam cogitat. (Lat. Prov.)-" Even the most munificent and liberal men weigh the grounds of their liberality." Bounty unworthily, and indiscriminately bestowed, loses half its merit.-M.D.

390. Bibula charta. PLINY.-" Blotting paper."-M.

391. Bien vienes, si vienes solo. (Span. Prov.)—“ Welcome, if thou comest alone." Spoken of some unfortunate occurrence.-M.D.

392. Bis dat qui citò dat. (Lat. Prov.)-" He doubles the obligation who gives with readiness." Any favour is much enhanced by being promptly conferred, while delay must depreciate its value, perhaps render it useless.-M.M.

393. Bis est gratum quod opus est, si ultro offeras. (Lat. Prov.)"That which we stand in need of is doubly acceptable, if spontaneously

offered."-M.D.

394. Bisogna amar l'amico con i suoi difetti. (Ital.)-"We must love our friend with all his defects." We must always make allowances for certain failings which are inseparable in a great measure from human nature; and an impartial examination of those which attach to our own character, will probably influence us to look with commiseration and indulgence on those of our neighbours. Certainly, he who expects to find unspotted perfection in a friend, will be disappointed.-M.D.

395. Bis peccare in bello non licet. (Lat. Prov.)-" It is not permitted in warfare twice to err." Errors in war being frequently irretrievable, and leading, perhaps, to the destruction of the party erring, they cannot be too carefully avoided.-M.M.

396. Bis vincit qui se vincit in victorid. SYRUS.-" He is doubly a conqueror, who, when a conqueror, can conquer himself." Moderation and mercy shed over the laurels of the conqueror the lustre of true glory.

397. Blanc-bec. (Fr.)-" A raw inexperienced boy." Vulgarly called with us a "Green-horn."-M.D.

398. Bœotum in crasso jurares aëre natum. Hor.-" You would swear that he was born in the thick air of Bœotia." The inhabitants of Bœotia, a province of Greece, were remarkable for their extraordinary stupidity.-M.D.

399. Bona bonis contingunt. (Lat.) -" Blessings attend the good."-M. 400. Boná fide." In good faith." In truth, actually, in reality.-M.D. 401. Bona malis paria non sunt, etiam pari numero; nec lætitia ulla minimo mærore pensanda. PLINY.-“The enjoyments of life do not equal its ills, even in number; nor can any degree of joy compensate for even a small share of pain or grief." This sentiment must have been the offspring of a melancholy mind.-M.D.

402. Bonæ leges malis ex moribus procreantur. MACROB.-" Good laws grow out of evil acts." Most of the laws which now appear in our statute book never would have had existence, had not evil actions rendered them necessary.-M.

403. Bonarum rerum consuetudo pessima est. PUB. SYR.-"The constant habit of enjoying good things, is hurtful." Nothing is more prejudicial to the health or constitution than a too great indulgence in luxuries. Use, but do not abuse the good things of this world. -M.D.

404. Bon avocat, mauvais voisin. (Fr.)-“A good lawyer generally is a bad neighbour." A too great confidence in his own professional knowledge and talent, sometimes may induce him to attempt encroachments on the property of his neighbours. But the satire here cast on that profession, is by no means one of general or merited application.-M.D.

405. Bon gré, mal gré. (Fr.)-" With a good will or a bad." Whether you will or not.-M.D.

406. Bon jour, bonne œuvre. (Fr.)-" A good day, a good work." The better day, the better deed. (Eng. Prov.)-М.М.

407. Boni nullo emolumento impelluntur in fraudem. CIC.-"No temptation of emolument can induce an honourable man to commit a fraudulent act."-M.

408. Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere. SUET.-" It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, but not to flay them."M.D.

409. Bonis nocet qui pepercerit malis. PUB. SYR.-" He does an injury to the good, who spares the bad." Nothing is more prejudicial to Society, and the interests of good order, than mistaken lenity, shewn to undeserving objects. —М.М.

410. Bonis quod benefit haud perit. PLAUT.-" Acts of kindness shewn to good men, are never thrown away."-M.D.

411. Bonne bouche. (Fr.)-"A good mouth." A nice bit, a delicate morsel, reserved as a gratification for the last mouthful.-M.D.

412. Bonne et belle assez. (Fr.)-" Good and handsome enough." Motto of earl Fauconberg.-M.D.

413. Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture dorée. (Fr. Prov.)-" A good reputation is preferable to a girdle of gold." All the wealth, the honours, the splendour, the "pomp and circumstance" of this world, are not to be compared with it. "A good name, in man or woman, is the immediate jewel of their souls." "He that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which enriches not himself, and makes me poor indeed." Shakspeare, Othello.-M.D.

414. Bonum est fugienda aspicere in alieno malo. PUB. SYR.-" Fortunate are they who can discern, in other men's misfortunes, those things. which they should themselves avoid." As they thereby acquire those lessons of prudence which adversity impresses upon our minds, without feeling its sting.-M.M.

415. Bonum magis carendo quam fruendo cernitur. (Lat. Prov.)-"We become more sensible of the value of that which is good, when we are in want of it, than when we enjoy it." Shakspeare has admirably given this maxim:

"That which we have, we prize not to the worth;

But being lacked and lost-why then we rate its value." -M.D.

416. Bonum summum quo tendimus omnes. LUCRET.-"That sovereign good, at which we all aim."M.D.

417. Bos lassus fortius figit pedem. DIOGENES. -" A tired ox fixes his foot more firmly." Is more careful and deliberate in his step.-M.

418. Boutez en avant. (Fr.)-" Push forward." Motto of earl of Barrymore.-M.D.

419. Brave comme son épée. (Fr.)-" Brave as his sword." This expression is applied to those, whose innate courage renders them as regardless of danger as the sword they wear.-M.D.

420. Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. (Lat.)-" I endeavour to be brief, but I become obscure." Applied to authors, who, aiming at too great brevity, neglect so much the requisite explanation, that their works become obscure.-M.M.

421. Brevis voluptas mox doloris est parens. (Lat.)-" Short-lived pleasures are often productive of pain."-M.D.

422. Brutum fulmen. (Lat.) -" A harmless thunderbolt." A loud but vain menace. An inoperative law. He uttered a tirade, which was a mere brutum fulmen, all violence and noise.-M.D.

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