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It was commonly thought that monasteries were places of flight from the world contemptus mundi and of withdrawal from responsibility for the world, in search of private salvation.
Monastery Landscapes 2009
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Satan aggreditur, eorùmque mentes contemptus libertate et refractaria contumacia, aduersus Deum et sacrum ministerium, etiam hîc armare non negligit.
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Satan aggreditur, eor鵰que mentes contemptus libertate et refractaria contumacia, aduersus Deum et sacrum ministerium, etiam h頲 armare non negligit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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She demands a total contemptus mundi and insists that we place our faith in that unknown god, our own buried lives.
The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972
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What is more important is to see how they kept alive the contemptus mundi (“contempt for worldly things”) and to an extent that made most of the outstanding figures of that period, whether they knew it or not, enemies of what the Church was teach - ing as basic doctrines.
PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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* Ignosci aliquatenus ignorantia potest; contemptus veniam non habet.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 05. 1630-1694 1820
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Ignosci aliquatenus ignorantia potest; contemptus veniam non habet.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 05. 1630-1694 1820
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Ille regibus, hic tyrannis contemptus, (Opp.p. 536.) * Note: Fatcor attamen quod-nunc fatuum. nunc hystrionem, nunc gravem nunc simplicem, nunc astutum, nunc fervidum, nunc timidum simulatorem, et dissimulatorem ad hunc caritativum finem, quem dixi, constitusepius memet ipsum.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Ille regibus, hic tyrannis contemptus, (Opp.p. 536.) * Note: Fatcor attamen quod-nunc fatuum. nunc hystrionem, nunc gravem nunc simplicem, nunc astutum, nunc fervidum, nunc timidum simulatorem, et dissimulatorem ad hunc caritativum finem, quem dixi, constitusepius memet ipsum.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Porrò etsi tum fuit magna, imò maxima Episcopi obseruantia, tamen nunc dispulsis tenebris Papisticis, alia ratione homines Satan aggreditur, eorùmque mentes contemptus libertate et refractaria contumacia, aduersus
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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