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* Quia nihil hoc cavilla proficiunt Judaei, ad figmentum venturi sui
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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[207] Quia nihil hoc cavilla proficiunt Judaei, ad figmentum venturi sui Messiae trahentes vetustum regni excidium.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Of the Jparus genus, there were various kinds, and fome new fpecies; and at A'tou'wi and O'neehow the cavilla was very com - mon among the fa! ted fifh.
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Reimmannus carries his strictures, upon the jealousy of foreigners at the success of the Germans in bibliography, with a high hand: "Ringantur Itali, nasum incurvent Galli, supercilium adducant Hispani, scita cavilla serant Britanni, frendeant, spument, bacchentur ii omnes, qui præstantiam
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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