e Cavite arsenal in 1872 a mutiny which was
construed as an incipient rebellion, and for alleged complicity in it
three native priests, Padres Burgos, Gomez, and Zamora, were garroted,
while a number of prominent Manilans were deported.--TR.
[152] What do I see? ... Wherefore?
[153] What do you wish? Nothing is in the intellect which has not first
passed through the senses; nothing is willed that is not already in
the mind.
[154] Where in the world are we?
[155] The uprising of Ibarra suppressed by the alferez of the Civil
Guard? And now?
[156] Friend, Plato is dear but truth is dearer ... It's a bad business
and a horrible result from these things is to be feared.
[157] Against him who denies the fundamentals, clubs should be used
as arguments.
[158] Latin prayers. "Agnus Dei Catolis" for "Agnus Dei qui tollis"
(John I. 29).
[159] Woe unto them! Where there's smoke there's fire! Like seeks like;
and if Ibarra is hanged, therefore you will be hanged.
[160] I do not fear death in bed, but upon the mount of Bagumbayan.
[161] The first part of a Spanish proverb: "Gifts break rocks, and
enter without gimlets."
[162] What is written is evidence! What medicines do not cure, iron
cures; what iron does not cure, fire cures.
[163] In extreme cases, extreme measures.
[164] Do you wish to keep it also, traitress?
[165] Go, accursed, into the fire of the kalan.
[166] The first part of a Spanish proverb: "Cria cuervos y te sacaran
los ojos," "Rear crows and they will pick your eyes out."--TR.
[167] Believe me, cousin ... what has happened, has happened; let
us give thanks to God that you are not in the Marianas Islands,
planting camotes. (It may be observed that here, as in some of his
other speeches, Don Primitivo's Latin is rather Philippinized.)--TR.
[168] The original is in the _lingua franca_ of the Philippine Chinese,
a medium of expression _sui generis_, being, like, Ulysses, "a part
of all that he has met," and defying characteristic translation:
"No siya osti gongon; miligen li Antipolo esi! Esi pueli mas con tolo;
no siya osti gongong!"--TR.
[169] "Si esi no homole y no pataylo, muje juete-juete!"
[170] The Spanish battle-cry: "St. James, and charge, Spain!"--TR.
[171] The "wide rock" that formerly jutted out into the river just
below the place where the streams from the Lake of Bay join the
Mariquina to form the Pasig proper. This spot was celebrated in the
demonology of the p
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