Word: video
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...credo on the objects of a college journal. They believe that "literary articles" should "occupy only a subordinate place." Unfortunately we find in the same issue an oration four and a half columns long on the "Historical Awakening Culminating in the Reformation." The Athenoeum should take as its motto, "Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor." We must acknowledge, however, that the oration is worth publishing...
...intres, sed mehercle! ut medicus in Paradisum intret, fieri non potest.' Ab imo pectore suspirans, 'Et ego, Petre Sancte, vehementer, vehementissime quidem doleo,' oculis respondeo lacrimantibus, 'iter longissimum confeci, defessissimus sum, quoeam nescio. Nihilo secius portas reclude, ut interiora Paradisi saltem aspectare possim.' Portis patefactis interiora tota magnificentissima video, et mirabile dictu! in medio Paradiso Doctorem B. conspicor. 'Quid ita, Petre Sancte,' stupefactus exclamo, 'ibi est Doctor B. ipsum, in propria persona video.' 'Doctor B.? ubi?' Petrus, pariter admiratus, exclamat, 'Ibi, ibi! nonne vides?' 'Huncce?' exclamat Petrus, tollens cachinnum, 'Aha! iste non est medicus...