The rules laid down in the general rubrics of the Breviary for commemorations were never very simple, and when we read the changes brought about in De ratione Divini officii recitandi juxta novum Psalteri ordinem, Titles II., III., IV., V., VI., with' the decrees of the Congregation (January, 1912), and subsequently (Abhinc duos Annos)

Becichemus, rector of the Academy of Pavia in the sixteenth century, in his introduction to the work of Ferreri, wrote of the hymns: "sunt omnes fere mendosi, inepti, barbarie refecti, nulla pedum ratione nullo syllabarum mensu compositi....

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AUT EA QUOE VIZ SUMMA INGENII RATIONE COMPREHENDAT, NULLA RATIONE MOVERI PUTET?]

"Nunquam ita quicquam bene subducta ratione ad vitam fuit, Quin res, aetas, usus, semper aliquid apportent novi, Aliquid moneant, ut illa quae scire te credas, nescias, Et quae tibi putaris prima, in exercendo ut repudias.

I will have them proceed with all moderation: but hear you, Fabius my general, not Minutius, nam qui Consilio nititur plus hostibus nocet, quam qui sini animi ratione, viribus: And in such wars to abstain as much as is possible from depopulations, burning of towns, massacring of infants, &c.

Sed qua ratione potero?

Twas so of old, and ever will be, and which Tiresias advised Ulysses in the poet,Accipe qua ratione queas ditescere, &c., is still in use; lie, flatter, and dissemble: if not, as he concludes,Ergo pauper eris, then go like a beggar as thou art.

Qua quid in re ab infantibus differunt, quibus mens et sensus sine ratione inest, quicquid sese his offert volupe est. 246.

Insanire parant certa ratione modoque, mad by the book they, & c. 714.

Pars affecta cerebrum sive per consensum, sive per cerebrum contingat, et procerum auctoritate et ratione stabilitur.

Cor vero vicinitatis ratione una afficitur, acceptum transversum ac stomachus cum dorsali spina, &c. 1038.

3. etsi multos hoc improbasse sciam, innumeros hac ratione sanatos longa observatione cognovi, qui vigesies, sexagies venas tundendo, &c. 1504.

Plura faciunt homines e consuetudine quam e ratione.

Hence both he and Bishop Bull too often treat it as a peculiarity of positive religion, which is to be cleared of all contradiction to reason, and then, thus negatively qualified, to be actually received by an act of the mere will; 'sit pro ratione voluntas'.

Br. 2. Quandoquidem passim nulla ratione feruntur, Cuncta cinis, cuncta et ludicra, cuncta nihil.

Quâ ratione assimulandus sit equus TREMULO?

'Insanire pares certa ratione modoque.' Hor.

Tabula et questiones Bede de ratione temporum.

"Rather I cry with him of old, Omnia incerta ratione!

"Auspice te, fugiens alieni subcuba lecti, Dira libido hominum tota de gente repulsa est: Ac tantum gregibus pecudum ratione carentum Imperat, et sine lege tori furibunda vagatur.

'Quoi quisque ferè studio devinctus adhæret: Aut quibus in rebus multùm sumus antè morati: Atque in quâ ratione fuit contenta magis mens;

'Quâ ratione queas traducere leniter ævum: Ne te semper inops agitet vexetque cupido; Ne pavor et rerum mediocriter utilium Spes.' Hor.

I. CATO solus, &c. 'Sic, sic se habere rem necesse prorsus est, Ratione vincis, do lubens manus, Plato.

Qui ratione suae disturbant moenia mundi.