Historical Lights; Six Thousand Quotations From Standard Histories And Biographies .
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4599. QTSSTIOir, Unanswered. The answer he gave a prince who asked him what God was is much celebrated. That prince was Hiero, King of Syracuse. The poet desired a day to consider the question proposed to him. On the morrow he asked two days ; and when- ever he was called upon for his answer, he still doubled the time. The king, surprised at this behavior, demanded his reason for it. ' ' It is," re- plied Simonides, "because the more I consider the question, the more obscure it seems, Qmms quan...ta diutiia considero, tanto mihi res videtur obscurior." — Rollin's Hist., Book 5, art. 9. 4600. BACE, Antipathy of. Beign of James n. [Roman Catholic troops from Ireland were brought into England to aid the king in the overthrow of the Protestant faith.] Neither [English] ofiicers nor soldiers were disposed to bear patiently the preference shown by their master to a foreign and a subject race. The Duke of Berwick, who was colonel of the Eighth Regiment of the Line, then quartered at Ports- mouth, gave orders that thirty men, just arrived from Ireland, should be enlisted.
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