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  • Image courtesy diis. net: The aptly-named Crook, appearing on the Fox network news talk show Hannity and Colmes.

    Boing Boing: October 29, 2006 - November 4, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Optimum quidem fuerat eam patribus nostris mentem a diis datam esse, ut vos Italiae, nos Africae imperio contenti essemus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • O Jupiter contingat mihi aurum haereditas, &c. Multos da Jupiter annos, Dementia quanta est hominum, turpissima vota diis insusurrant, si quis admoverit aurem, conticescunt; et quod scire homines nolunt, Deo narrant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sit hoc votum a diis amare Delphidem, ab ea amari, adloqui pulchram et loquentem audire.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Odit naturam quod infra deos sit; irascitur diis quod quis illi antecedat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Etiam servi diis curae sunt, as Evangelus at large proves in Macrobius, the meanest servant is most precious in his sight.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But certainly he is traduced; for his words are noble and divine: Non deos vulgi negare profanum; sed vulgi opiniones diis applicare profanum.

    The Essays 2007

  • Selden de diis Syris, Purchas 'pilgrimage, [6506] Rosinus of the Romans, and Lilius

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hi non conveniunt ut diis more majorum sacra faciant, non ut Jovi primitias offerant, aut

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I acknowledge it a most noble and divine science, in so much that Apollo, Aesculapius, and the first founders of it, merito pro diis habiti, were worthily counted gods by succeeding ages, for the excellency of their invention.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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