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  • Suae erit humanitatis et sapientiae (which [3431] Tully enjoineth in like case) siquid erratum, curare, aut improvisum, sua diligentia corrigere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin incorrigibilis, from Latin in- + corrigere to correct — more at CORRECT

    Unthreaded #11 « Climate Audit 2007

  • Cap. 2. de Phisiologia sagarum: Quod alii minus recte fortasse dixerint, nos examinare, melius dijudicare, corrigere studeamus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Husbands and wives did this "ut ostendant sese mutuo debere corrigere, ne illo tempore alter ab altero thori debitum exigat" (Beleth, I, c. cxx; Durandus, I, c. vi, 86).

    04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

  • I will conclude like a pedant, Levius fit patientia quicquid corrigere est nefas.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Quoniam etsi ex tunc proposui mores corrigere, ex nunc statuo in melius emendare, per filium eius Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Quoniam etsi ex tunc proposui mores corrigere, ex nunc statuo in melius emendare, per filium eius Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum.

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

  • While I was endeavouring to pacify them by the only argument I had at my disposal, founded on the principle of "_levius fit patientiâ quidquid corrigere est nefas_," one of our servants brought us the joyful news that from an eminence adjacent he had discovered an abatta, or clump of blanket tents, surrounded by cultivated land, about a mile off.

    A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

  • [109] "Et quia scripturæ scriptorum vitio erant ninium corruptæ, omnes tam Veteris, quam Novi Testamenti libros; necnon etiam scriptæ sanctorum patrum secundum orthodoxam fidem studuit corrigere."

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • S. Emmerammi compulsus sum S. Wolfgangi vitam in libellulis duobus dissimili interdum, et impolita materie descriptam in unum colligere, et aliquantulum sublimiori modo corrigere ....

    Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849 Various

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