Crossword-Solution: ARDUA 5 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Grot.) How many interesting facts might Orosius have inserted in the vacant space which is devoted to pious nonsense!] 78 (return) [ Franguntur montes, planumque per ardua Caesar Ducit opus: pandit fossas, turritaque summis Disponit castella jugis, magnoque necessu Amplexus fines, saltus, memorosaque tesqua Et silvas, vastaque feras indagine claudit.! Yet the simplicity of truth (Caesar, de Bell.

Laying therefore in my youth the foundations of so noble a structure, it is my intention, if God will assist me and prolong my life, to reserve my maturer years for composing a treatise upon so perfect, so sacred a subject: for according to the poet, “Ardua quippe fides robustos exigit annos;” “The important concerns of faith require a mind in its full vigour;” I may be permitted to indulge myself for a short time in other pursuits; but in this I should wish not only to continue, but to die.

Farther from the flowers and nearer to the stars,--to reach the neighborhood of which last the per ardua of three or four flights of stairs was formidable for any mortal, wounded or well.

With eyes fixed on the noble goal to which "per aspera et ardua" they tend, they may, now and then, be stirred to momentary wrath by the unnecessary obstacles with which the ignorant, or the malicious, encumber, if they cannot bar, the difficult path; but why should their souls be deeply vexed? The majesty of Fact is on their side, and the elemental forces of Nature are working for them.

There chained to its stand was the Bible, upon which they had registered their vow; there were the pictures of his ancestors gazing down calmly upon him, as though they cared little for the story of his struggles and of his strange triumph over fortune “by the help of a woman.” There was the painted window, with its blazoned coats of arms and its proud mottoes—“_For Heart, Home, and Honour_,” and “_Per ardua ad astra_.” He had won the heart and home, and he had kept his honour and his oath.