Note 366 — MISCELLANEOUS RECOLLECTIONS A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER BEGUN IN 1826
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On one of those occasions, in commending the younger students for their diligence and exhorting them to persevere in it, his phraseology, pure and Ciceronian as it was, exposed him to the saucy waggery of some punsters, for he began one of his earnest paragraphs with these words, “Pergite, Adolescentes, Pergite, inquam, Adolescentes.”—V.H.