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Poterit deserere quos tantis beneficiis usque ad præmia prosecutus est?
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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= Ovid does not use _deserere_ with things as object until his poetry of exile: compare _Tr_ I ix 65 'nec amici _desere_ causam'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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"Invictissime quod bonum est velint, et hoc deserere invictissime nolint".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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_Cum doctrina retineretur integra, malui nostros hanc servitutem subire quam deserere ministerium evangelii.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Pars studia deserere cogebantur; pars huc illucque quovis momento rapiebantur; nec ulli certus ordo suumve propositum diu constabat.
The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856
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To which appeal both to Your I.M. (nisi causa inter nos et partes juxta tenorem Caesareae proximae citationis amice in caritate composita, sedata, et ad Christianam concordiam reducta fuerit) deserere intendimus aut possumus; de quo hic etiam solenniter et publice protestamur. and a Council we still adhere; nor do we intend, nor would it be possible for us to forsake it by this or any other document, unless the matter between us and the other party should, in accordance with the tenor of the latest Imperial citation, be adjusted, settled, and brought to Christian concord, in friendship and love; concerning which appeal we here also make our solemn and public protest.
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“Primo itaque homini, qui in eo bono quo factus fuerat rectus, acceperat posse non peccare, posse non mori, posse ipsum bonum non deserere, datum est adjutorium perseverantiæ, non quo fieret ut perseveraret, sed sine quo per liberum arbitrium perseverare non posset.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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D. 363,) with Godefroy's Illustrations, tom.v. p. 31.] [Footnote 92: Orosius celebrates their disinterested resolution, Sicut a majori bus nostris compertum habemus, omnes ubique propemodum ... officium quam fidem deserere maluerunt, vii.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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D. 363,) with Godefroy’s Illustrations, tom.v. p. 31.] 92 Orosius celebrates their disinterested resolution, Sicut a majori bus nostris compertum habemus, omnes ubique propemodum ... officium quam fidem deserere maluerunt, vii.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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