Such an one was Socrates. It is all very well to have a contemplative disposition; but it need not be accompanied by a contemplative nose.
Quo plus habent, eo plus cupiunt:
The more they have the more they want.
This is a curious fact in the natural history of school-boys, considered in relation to roast beef and plum pudding.
Maximum ætate virum in totâ Kentuckiâ contudi:
I whopped the oldest man in all Kentucky.
The Construction of Pronouns.
All those who would understand the construction of pronouns, should take care to be well versed in the distinction between meum and tuum, ignorance of which often gives rise to the disagreeable necessity of becoming too intimately acquainted with quod.
Mei, of me, tui, of thee, sui, of himself, nostri, of us, vestri, of you, (the genitive cases of their primitives ego, tu, &c.) are used when a person is signified, as
Languet desiderio tui: