"Triplex" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is a [Greek: skandalon], as well as of those to whom it is [Greek: moria]. I can only pray for you, and trust that He who has given you the first victory of faith will also give you robur et aes triplex circa pectus, ...
— Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 • Robert Ornsby
... pleased, and because, in after years, I had much to do with reviving the practice of this beautiful art. It was practising this, and a three years' study of oak-wood carving, which led me to write on the Minor Arts. Mihi aes et triplex robur. ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
... of the ancient belief that the spirit of a dead man haunts for a time the roof of his dwelling, because it is referred to quite impressively in many Japanese dramas, among others in the play called Kagami-yama, which makes the people weep. But I had not before heard of triplex and quadruplex and other yet more highly complex Souls; and I questioned Kinjuro vainly in the hope of learning the authority for his beliefs. They were the beliefs of his fathers: that was all ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn
... goods and "everywhere spoken against"; the life-long struggle with its tremendous uncertainties; surely, he who should undertake the burden of these things and many more besides, would need not only the "robur et aes triplex circa pectus" of the heathen poet, but the faith that "could remove mountains" also. Who was to be ...
— Report Of Commemorative Services With The Sermons And Addresses At The Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. • Diocese Of Connecticut
... Triplex complications. All such are costly, perishable, easily clogged, inaccessible. Mill Gearing, Shafting, and ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various
... triplex.] De Aethiopia intratur in Indiam, mediam, nam triplex est videlicet infima, quae in quibusdam suis partibus est nimis frigida ad inhabitandum: Media quae satis temperata est, et superior, quae nimis calida. In India infima propter continuum et graue frigus ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation. v. 8 - Asia, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt
... Wind-screen, "that's Discipline, that is. Through my little Triplex window I see most things, and don't I just know that poor discipline always results in poor work in the air, and don't you ...
— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber
... the moment to exorcise. The legal gentleman, though a "writer" himself, was not at all convinced about the phenomena, as was perhaps natural, seeing the exceedingly bad company to which it professed to relegate him. As for me, my scepticism was to me robur et aes triplex. I disposed of the snake, put out the gas; and down we three sat, amid profound darkness, like three male witches in "Macbeth," having previously locked the door to prevent any one disturbing ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies
... tertio, is a good play, and the olde saying is, the third payes for all: the triplex sir, is a good tripping measure, or the belles of S[aint]. Bennet sir, may put you in minde, one, ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... by an electric pump. Electric motors are easy and convenient to run, very clean, but so far not very economical. Electric pumps may be arranged so as to start and stop entirely automatically. Water may be pumped, where electricity forms the power, either by triplex plunger pumps or by rotary, ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) • Various |
