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  • Qui, inquit, naturam tanti incendij contemplari cupiunt, & ob id ad montem propius accedunt, eos vna aliqua vorago viuos absorbet &c. Qu� res, vt dixi, nostr� genti est ignota prorsus.

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

  • Qui, inquit, naturam tanti incendij contemplari cupiunt, & ob id ad montem propius accedunt, eos vna aliqua vorago viuos absorbet &c. Quæ res, vt dixi, nostræ genti est ignota prorsus.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Des Cartes, in his second 'Meditation,' says -- _Imaginari nihil aliud est quam rei corporeos figuram seu imaginem contemplari_ -- which sentence indicates that he agreed with D'Alembert as to the exclusive limitation of imagination to things material and sensible.

    An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

  • Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodiernae vitae minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes.

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1927

  • Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodiernæ vitæ minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes.

    Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905

  • Animam namque accepisti intellectualem, et rationalem, per quam Deum possis agnoscere, et naturam rerum conspicabili rationis intelligentia contemplari: sapientiae dulcissimis fructibus perfrui praesto est.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • 'JURISPRUDENTAE studio nullum uberius, nullum generosius: in legibus enim agitandis, populorum mores, variasque fortunae vices ex quibus leges oriuntur, contemplari simul solemus' BOSWELL.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Piam matrem contemplari, Had he seen the holy Mother

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Various 1840

  • Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodiernae vitae minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes.

    Rime of the ancient mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • 'JURISPRUDENTÆ studio nullum uberius, nullum generosius: in legibus enim agitandis, populorum mores, variasque fortunæ vices ex quibus leges oriuntur, contemplari simul solemus_' BOSWELL.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767

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