Crossword-Solution: USUS 4 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

What will our modern ladies think, when I state that the Emperor Augustus scarcely wore a garment which had not been woven by his wife, his sister, or grand-daughters.(97) (97) Veste non temere alia quam domestica usus est, ab uxore et filia nepotibusque confecta.

The satirist [Persius] exclaims, “Mille hominum species et mentis discolor usus; Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.” “Nature is ever various in her name; Each has a different will, and few the same.” The comic poet also says, “_Quot capita tot sententiæ_, _suus cuique mos est_.” “As many men, so many minds, each has his way.” Young soldiers exult in war, and pleaders delight in the gown; others aspire after riches, and think them the supreme good.

Non est, inquam, instrumentorum ad usus necessarios opifex.” If the non were left out, this last sentence would be no bad description of the Baconian philosophy, and would, indeed, very much resemble several expressions in the Novum Organum.

Indeed their notion, as reported by their great poet, was, that no more improvements were to be expected in the arts which conduce to the comfort of life.= ````“Ad victum quae flagitat usus ```Omnia jam ferme mortalibus esse parata.”= This contented despondency, this disposition to admire what has been done, and to expect that nothing more will be done, is strongly characteristic of all the schools which preceded the school of Fruit and Progress.

Postremo, tanquam in speculum, in patinas, Demea, Inspicere jubeo, et moneo, quid facto usus sit." ["This is too salt, that's burnt, that's not washed enough; that's well; remember to do so another time.