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  • * Dicebat se discernere (nescio quo sapore, quem verbis explicare non poterat) quid interesset inter Deum revelantem: [5644] 1

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • "Dicebat se discernere (nescio quo sapore, quem verbis explicare non poterat) quid interesset inter Deum revelantem," etc.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • And in plain terms the Milevitan council tells us: “Si quis finxerit ideo gratiam esse necessariam ad vitanda peccata, quia facit hominem cognoscere peccata, et discernere inter peccata et non peccata, qua discretione per gratiam habita, per liberum arbitrium potest vitare; is procul,” etc.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • On the evidence of the lexica, however, Gronovius 'distinction breaks down, since _discernere_ meaning' decide, determine, make out 'is common enough: compare Sallust _Cat_ 25 3' pecuniae an famae minus parceret haud facile _discerneres_ ', Cic _Rep_ 2 6' ne nota quidem ulla pacatus an hostis sit _discerni_ ac iudicari potest ', Varro _LL_ VII 17' quo

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • For a little time the helm appeared abandoned—Ipse diem noctemque negat discernere cœlo,

    Paras. 1-19 1909

  • Sed concedamus ut aliquis possit bonos malosque discernere; num igitur potent intueri illam intimam temperiem, uelut in corporibus dici solet, animorum?

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Ventīs fluctibusque adflīctātī [15] nec sōlem discernere nec cursum tenēre poterāmus et omnia praesentem mortem intentābant.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • It comes from the Latin discernere -- to sift apart or separate -- and it worked its way into English as: (1) "the cognitive process whereby differences between two or more stimuli are perceived,"

    American Thinker 2009

  • [erroris nam tu uix est discernere nostri 25 sis argumentum maius an auxilium.] nec dubitans oro; sed flumine saepe secundo augetur remis cursus euntis aquae. et pudet et metuo semperque eademque precari ne subeant animo taedia iusta tuo; 30 uerum quid faciam? res immoderata cupido est; da ueniam uitio, mitis amice, meo.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • * sua, qua corpus Domini valeant discernere, tum de fide sua, qua vescantur ipso, tum etiam de resipiscentia sua, amore ac obedientia nova; ne forte indigni si advenerint, judicium edant bibantque sibimetipsis.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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