SCANDAL SCIENCE
Est bien fou du cerveau
Qui pretend contenter tout le moride et son pere.
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
La Fontaine—Fables. III. 1.
My cup runneth over.
Psalms. XXIH. 5.
Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist
schliram.
Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
Schiller—VotiDtafeln.
Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.
There is no satisfaction in any good without
a companion.
Seneca—Epislola Ad Lucilium. VI.
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1.
L. 415.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Joshua Sylvester—Works.
(1611)
Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene,
And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;
No splendid poverty, no smiling care,
No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
Young—Love of Fame. Satire I. L. 235.
SCANDAL
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To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing
Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
Congeeve—Love for Love. Act I. Sc. 2.
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| text = <poem>Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he that forged, and he that threw the dart,
Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
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And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
'Tis hence they scandal have at will.
And that this member ne'er lies still.
Gay—The Mad Dog.
And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
Juvenal—Satires. LX. Harvey's trans.
Conscia mens recti farms mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.
The mind conscious of innocence despises
false reports: but we are a set always ready
to believe a scandal.
Ovid—Fasti. IV. 311.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
What makes him honour'd, or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Rape of Lucrece. L. 1,004.
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But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
Young—Epistles to Pope. Ep. I. L. 199.
SCHELD (River)
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po!
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SCHOOL (See Education, Teaching)
SCHUYLKILL (River)
Alone by the Schuylkill a wanderer rov'd,
And bright were its flowery banks to his eye;
But far, very far, were the friends that he lov'd.
And he gaz'd on its flowery banks with a sigh.
Moore—Lines Written on Leaving Philadellg SCIENCE
'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray 'd,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.
Beattie—The Hermit.
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
Campbell—Pleasures of Hope. Pt.II, L. 325.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Cahlyle—Latter Day Pamphlets. No. 1.
(1850)
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Dismal Science.
Carlyle—The Nigger Question.
Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.
Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
Cicero—Tusadum Disp. Bk. I.
There are very few persons who pursue science
with true dignity.
Sir Humphrey Davy—Consolations in Travel.
Dialogue V. The Chemical Philosopher.
Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren derWelt an,
und vor ihnen verschwinden die Schranken der
Nationalitat.
Science and art belong to the whole world,
and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Goethe—In a conversation ivith a German historian. (1813)
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| text = <poem>While bright-eyed Science watches round.
Gray—Ode for Music. Chorus. L. 11.
Science is the topography of ignorance.
Holmes—Medical Essays. 211.
For science is * *
ceeding great reward.
Chas. Ktngsley—Health
Science.
- like virtue, its own exand Education.
