"Audax omnia perpeti
Gens humana ruit in vetitum nefas"
of Horace has become proverbial. In modern times, the pages of the
_Times_ newspaper will supply more ample and various illustrations of
the same great truth than the most learned ancient could have
collected. In England especially, the strong nature of the Saxon shows
something Titanic, both in feats of mechanical enterprise and in crime.
Note 46 (p. 117).
"All-venturing woman's dreadful ire."