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  • However, I shall probably, ex abundanti, return soon to my former prolixity; and you will receive more and more last words from, Yours.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Bulkeley, is now here; and had I known of your going so soon to Naples, I would have got you, ex abundanti, a letter from her to her brother.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Imperio Indi�, eundo per multas di鎡as intratur in Pentoxyri� quod est magn� latitudinis, et abundanti� in multis bonis: huius nominatior ciuitas, dicitur Nyse, et in ea habet Imperator palatium

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • We say, then, that by the words all men are here intended only of all sorts of men, suitable to the purpose of the apostle, which was to show that all external difference between the sons of men is now taken away; which ex abundanti we farther confirm by these following reasons: —

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • Let us shew, however, ex abundanti, that this opinion is not favourable to Pelagianism.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956

  • On this George _ex abundanti cautela_ knocked a nail out of the right boot that he had been wearing and changed boots with my father; but he thought it more plausible not to knock out exactly the same nail that was missing on my father's boot.

    Erewhon Revisited Samuel Butler 1868

  • “Sinillis est Theocritus amplo cuidam pascuo per se satis foecundo, herbis pluribus frugiferis floribusque pulchris abundanti, dulcibus etiam fluviis uvido: similis Virgilius horto distincto nitentibus areolis; ubi larga floruni copia, sed qui studiose dispositi, curaque meliore nutriti, atque exculti diligenter, olim hue a pascuo illo majore transferebantur.”

    Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

  • And when afterwards he seemed to be in the very kingdom and dominions of death, by descending into the grave, he quickly confuted the dishonour of that, by an astonishing resurrection, and by an argument ex abundanti, proved the divinity of his person over and over, in an equally miraculous ascension.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

  • Surely, therefore, Van Dale needed not to have pressed his victory over the helpless fathers so unrelentingly, and after the first ten pages by cases and proofs that are quite needless and _ex abundanti_; simply the survival of any one distinguished Oracle upwards of four centuries _after_ Christ -- that is sufficient.

    Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Surely, therefore, Van Dale needed not to have pressed his victory over the helpless fathers so unrelentingly, and after the first ten pages by cases and proofs that are quite needless and _ex abundanti_; simply the survival of any one distinguished Oracle upwards of four centuries _after_ Christ -- that is sufficient.

    Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

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