Upon being asked by a friend what he should think of a man who was apt to say non est tanti;-'That he's a stupid fellow, Sir; (answered Johnson): What would these tanti men be doing the while?'

Fra piacer tanti, ovunque un arbor dritto Vedesse ombrare o fonte o rivo puro, V'avea

Et era fuori in mille luoghi scritto, E così in casa in altri tanti il muro, Angelica e Medoro, in varii modi Legati insieme di diversi nodi.

Quante lettere son, tanti son chiodi Co

Insuper et peccatorem necesse erit pertransire ignem, semel, bis, dut ter iuxta iudicium Flaminis, quatenus per ignis acrimoniam purgetur à tanti inquinatione peccati.

Itaque dico vobis, cùm sodalibus, qui simul eramus, quatuordecim diuersarum nationum ante ingressum huius tanti periculi peruenissemus, nos tractatu longo, et deliberatione acuta consiliabamur, vtrùmnam ingredi deberemus, et quidam affirmabant, alii verò negabant.

significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant; tanti [Lat.].

saving your grace, saving your presence; salva sit reverentia [Lat.]; pace tanti nominis [Lat.].

Tanti uomini, he says, che in terra hanno voluto gustare vita celeste, dissero con una voce, "ecce elongavi fugiens et mansi in solitudine"those who in this world have desired a foretaste of the divine life, have always proclaimed with one voice: Lo! then would I wander far off; I would lodge in the wilderness.

For look into the world, and you shall see men most part esteemed according to their means, and happy as they are rich: [2208]Ubique tanti quisque quantum habuit fuit.

Quum tanti sit et tam profunda spiritum scientia, mirum non est tot tantasque res visu admirabiles ab ipsis patrari, et quidem rerum naturalium ope quas multo melius intelligunt, multoque peritius suis locis et temporibus applicare norunt, quam homo, Cicogna. 1156.

"Tanti miserere laboris," in my distress and with regret from John Murray.

Quod huic Officium, quæ laus, quod Decus erit tanti, quod adipisci cum colore Corporis velit, qui dolorem summum malum sibi persuaserit?

I brettinoresi determinarono di alzare in piazza una colonna con intorno tanti anelli di ferro, quanto le nobili famiglie di quel castello, e chi fosse arrivato ed avesse legato il cavallo ad uno de' predetti anelli, doveva esser ospite della famiglia, che indicava l' anello cui il cavallo era attaccato.

All the baker's and butcher's boys in London can go through "Di tanti pal"where they leave off, answer a question, and take up the "piti," with the skill of a musician; and as readily fall into the sympathetic melodies of "Oh no we never mention her," or the "Light Guitar."

272: See above, MYSTERY, and below, GHOSTS, and SCOTLAND-HEBRIDES, second sight; swearing, blameless of, ii. 166, n. 1; talk, not from books, v. 378; tanti-man, a, iv.

vesana momordit, Tanti ignara mali.

ab tanti excessu poetae intervallum, statua eleganti in loco celeberrimo, coenobio Westmonasteriensi, posita, regum, principum, antistitum, illustriumque Angliae virorum caemeterio, vir ornatissimus, Gulielmus Benson prosecutus est.

Quod autem ad exemplar ipsum, quo Adamus Exsul comprehenditur, spectat, id lubens, si meum foret, ad te perferri curarem, verum illud a clarissimo possessore tanti aestimatur, ut perrsuasum habeam me istud minime ab ipso impetraturum: et sane sacra carmina Grotii adeo raro obvia sunt, ut eorundem exemplar apud ipsos remonstrantium ecclesiastas frustra quaesiverim.

The latter is the immanent view of life; it is what Gracian means by his expression, tomar muy de veras el vivir (life is to be taken seriously); while for the former, the transcendental view, Ovid's non est tanti is a good expression; Plato's a still better, οὔτε τι των ἀνθρωπινων ἀξιον ἑστι, μεγαλης σπουδης (nihil, in rebus humanis, magno studio dignum est).

In a private letter to a friend from Highgate, in which he mentions the insuperable hatred of his foes to him, and their design of murthering him, he has these words; Praeterea magis eccidere metuo quam occidi, non quod vitam tanti aestimem, sed ne imparatus moriar, i.e., 'Besides, I am more apprehensive of killing, than being killed, not that I value life so much, but that I may not die unprepared.'

Quod huic Officium, quæ laus, quod Decus erit tanti, quod adipisci cum colore Corporis velit, qui dolorem summum malum sibi persuaserit?

'Tanti non es ais.

but consoles the disconsolate Mother, doomed to honour for the sake of us sinners Sei arrivata a tanti onori Per noi altri Peccatori! and ends by begging an alms Non ti vo' più infastidire, Bella Signora; so chi hai a fare.

" [Note 6: "Tra tanti confessori, sarebbe stato ancora bene un Martire," Chevroeana, p. 39.