otium cum dignitate
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Here sat the M.P. enjoying the otium cum dignitate, in a handsome morning gown, with bundles of parliamentary papers and a little stack of letters on the table.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely
This I consider as enjoying the otium cum dignitate, as the end and privilege of a life of study.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William
With his hardly-won gains he builds himself a house in the neighbourhood of the school, and lives there in a state of otium cum dignitate.
From The Lighter Side of School Life by Hay, Ian
Ended the quiet otium cum dignitate of the great country gentlemen; the sterile culture, the somewhat puritan morality, the placid refined life we read of in Ausonius.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
The otium cum dignitate, if it ever come, will come as well years after this as now.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
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