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Porro etsi Dominus ipse in Petri navicula dormiat, nimietate tempestatis compulsus, ipsum quoque fiducialiter excitabo, quatenus Spiritus oris sui tempestate sedata tranquillum faciat et serenum.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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S. Emmerammi compulsus sum S. Wolfgangi vitam in libellulis duobus dissimili interdum, et impolita materie descriptam in unum colligere, et aliquantulum sublimiori modo corrigere ....
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Vnde contigit ut beatus Keranus, eorum inquietacione compulsus, ad stagnum accederet, et orationi se totum dans, elongationem illorum uexancium seruos Dei perueniuit.
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Quorum Basilius olim regio ministerio depulsus in delationem nostri nominis alieni aeris necessitate compulsus est.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Flaccus consul, ... cum perniciosissimas rei publicae leges introduceret de civitate Italiae danda et de provocatione ad populum eorum, qui civitatem mutare noluissent, aegre compulsus est ut in Curiam veniret.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Compulsus feci, compulsus feci, exclaimed the broken-hearted Pope, -- the feeble and pious Ganganelli.
Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852
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(compulsus) by a judge to tell the truth about such a debt, whenever
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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(compulsus) by a judge he may tell it, but not, of course, so as he heard it in confession: but let him say, as follows: 'I heard it thus or I saw it thus'.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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