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Magni animi est injurias despicere, Seneca de ira, cap.
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Like Sarmiento the Spaniard, who when he was sent to discover the straits of Magellan, and confine places, by the Prorex of Peru, standing on the top of a hill, Amaenissimam planitiem despicere sibi visus fuit, aedificia magnifica, quamplurimos Pagos, alias Turres, splendida
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_Fuit hoc in utroque eorum, ut Crassus non tam existimari vellet non didicisse, quam illa despicere, et nostrorum hominum in omni genere prudentiam Græcis anteferre.
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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Sanctus autem Queranus ait; "Adducite" inquit "illum, et nolite futurum pastorem uestrum despicere."
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* Et cum quoslibet pauperes nonnulla reprehensibilia perpetrare conspicitis, nolite despicere, quia fortasse quod superfluitas tenuissimae pravitatis inquinat, caminus paupertatis purgat: [454] 1
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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Cicero, doubting of immortality (for so wise a man must have doubted of that which had such slender arguments to support it), could assert it as the office of wisdom, _Humanas res despicere atque infra se positas arbitrari.
Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730
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Cicero, doubting of immortality (for so wise a man must have doubted of that which had such slender arguments to support it), could assert it as the office of wisdom, _Humanas res despicere atque infra se positas arbitrari.
Amelia — Volume 1 Henry Fielding 1730
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[179] St. Gregory says: Et cum quoslibet pauperes nonnulla reprehensibilia perpetrare conspicitis, nolite despicere, quia fortasse quod superfluitas tenuissimae pravitatis inquinat, caminus paupertatis purgat (Homil.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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Christian ideas (as in terrena despicere or ut inimicos sanctae Ecclesiae humiliare digneris
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