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Note 3: Innocent III, Epistolae Comiti Altissiodorensi, Regi Francorum, Archiepiscopo Senonensi, and Episcopo Altissiodorensi, PL 215.160 — 68, at 161: "domum ejus in coemeterium convertere voluisti, dum in ea corpus cujusdam triduanum forsan et foetidum in ejus fecisti opprobrium tumulari". back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Purgantia censebant medicamenta, non unum humorem attrahere, sed quemcunque attigerint in suam naturam convertere.
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"Ierusalem, Ierusalem: convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum" was the only bit we both remembered in its entirety. posted by John at 11: 32 PM
04/01/2003 - 05/01/2003 John 2003
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* Inaniter et perfunctorie potius quam veraciter pro eis, ut doctrinae cui adversantur credendo consentiant, Deo fundimus preces, si ad ejus non pertinet gratiam convertere ad fidem suam, ipsi fidei contrarias hominum voluntates.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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[111] "Inaniter et perfunctorie potius quam veraciter pro eis, ut doctrinae cui adversantur credendo consentiant, Deo fundimus preces, si ad ejus non pertinet gratiam convertere ad fidem suam, ipsi fidei contrarias hominum voluntates."
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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_Quod alligati ad certam pedum necessitatem non semper propriis uti possint, sed depulsi a rectâ viâ, necessario ad quædam diverticula confugiant; nec mutare quædam modo verba, sed extendere, corripere, convertere, dividere cogantur.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Damian, his endeavour was "to turn the whole world into a hermitage, and make all the multitude of the people associates of the monastic order" (totum mundum in eremum convertere, et monachico ordini omnem populi multitudinem sociare).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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* Vae miserae mihi! non mihi respondes? miserator esto mei, domine; aspice filium tuum dulcissimum, convertere ad nos, noli nos spernere.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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[1] Does our author refer to the Roman sign of disapprobation, vertere, or convertere, pollicem?
The Crushed Flower and Other Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895
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Spiritus Sancti, sese ad Deum convertere, Evangelio credere, legi divinae ex animo parere, et hac ratione peccatorum remissionem ac vitam aeternam ipse promereri valeat.
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