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  • Mr. Buffett didn't provide details about who spoke, but said he urged all of the guests to face their apprehensio ns and participate in charity as a means to educate themselves and inspire others.

    Gates, Buffett Discuss Charity with China's Wealthy Laurie Burkitt 2010

  • A similar pattern emerges within the different acts exercised by each sense power: the sense apprehends (apprehensio) the object, delights (delectatio) in its object, provided that the object does not exceed the natural limits of the organ, and judges

    Amputee 2009

  • But the reasoning process and the idea (apprehensio) may also become a grace of the mind, firstly, because they both belong to the essence of human knowledge, and grace always operates in a manner conformable to nature; secondly because ideas are in final analysis but the result and fruit of condensed judgments and reasonings.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Dei benevolentia rerum substantia est et apprehensio.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * Quae fides certa et indubita omnium sperandarum de Dei benevolentia rerum substantia est et apprehensio.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • It has had to struggle on the one hand against the prejudices of common-sense for which imagination is synonymous with sham and vain appearance and opposed to the real as non-being to being; on the other hand, against a doctrine of the logicians who maintain that the idea is at first merely conceived with no affirmation of existence or non-existence (_apprehensio simplex_).

    Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877

  • But if I leave it in the hands of the seller without arranging with him specially in whose physical possession or holding (detentio) this thing shall be before my taking possession of it (apprehensio), and consequently, before the actual change of possession, the horse is not yet mine; and the right which I acquire is only a right against

    The Science of Right 1790

  • The empirical title of acquisition has been shown to be constituted by the taking physical possession (apprehensio physica) as founded upon an original community of right in all to the soil.

    The Science of Right 1790

  • The act of taking possession (apprehensio), being at its beginning the physical appropriation of a corporeal thing in space

    The Science of Right 1790

  • “intentio,” “comprehensio,” “apprehensio,” “penetratio,” and understanding are all just so many bodily actions transferred to the expression of

    The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 Various

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