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Et si forte aliquo ingenio vel arte erigunt lartari machinas suas, debent eas destruere machinis suis si possunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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* Pelagiana haeresis quo dogmate catholicam fidem destruere adorta sit, et quibus impietatum venenis viscera ecclesiae atque ipsa vitalia corporis Christi voluerit occupare, notiora sunt quam ut opere narrationis indigeant.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Cujus est instruere, ejus est destruere -- the right to enact implies the right to repeal.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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For 'tis a saying almost Proverbial, among those Chymists themselves that are accounted Philosophers; and our famous Countryman _Roger Bacon_ has particularly adopted it; that _Facilius est aurum facere quam destruere_.
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Etymology: Middle English destruccioun, from Anglo-French destruction, from Latin destruction -, destructio, from destruere
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Etymology: Middle English destruccioun, from Anglo-French destruction, from Latin destruction -, destructio, from destruere
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Etymology: Middle English destruccioun, from Anglo-French destruction, from Latin destruction -, destructio, from destruere
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Etymology: Middle English destruccioun, from Anglo-French destruction, from Latin destruction -, destructio, from destruere
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Etymology: Middle English destruccioun, from Anglo-French destruction, from Latin destruction -, destructio, from destruere
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Etymology: Middle English destruccioun, from Anglo-French destruction, from Latin destruction -, destructio, from destruere
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