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  • But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.

    Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley Samuel Johnson 1746

  • In an image from the latter treatise, Gaffurio is shown with 12students, to whom he asserts, "Harmonia est discordia concors" (Harmony is the concord of discord).

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The discordia concors, the unexpected linking of the medium of cleanliness with filth, could only have sprung from an imagination that had apprehended the terrors of the deep, of the immaterial deep as well as the physical.

    Concept of the unified text 2009

  • These include De concordia et discordia in humano genere (On Concord and Discord in Humankind, 1529), a piece of social criticism emphasizing the value of peace and the absurdity of war; De disciplinis

    Juan Luis Vives [Joannes Ludovicus Vives] Casini, Lorenzo 2009

  • The discordia concors, the unexpected linking of the medium of cleanliness with filth, could only have sprung from an imagination that had apprehended the terrors of the deep, of the immaterial deep as well as the physical.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • I just want to know (I gotta stop soon cause my fingers is gettin tired now) who benefits from the principa discordia that is America today?? who really benefits if we all stay pissed at each other? my suspicion is politcians of BOTH liberal and conservative persuasions but heck, I may be just pissin in the wind on this one.

    Think Progress » Ralph Reed returns to corporation humping. 2006

  • Omnia spiritibus plena, et ex eorum concordia et discordia omnes boni et mali effectus promanant, omnia humana reguntur: paradoxa veterum de quo Cicogna.omnif. mag.l. 2. c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Concordia magnae res crescunt, discordia maximae dilabuntur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Insana gula, insanae obstructiones, insanum venandi studium discordia demens.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Arabians, (as I find them cited by [1230] Cicogna) farther add, that they are not our governors only, Sed ex eorum concordia et discordia, boni et mali affectus promanant, but as they agree, so do we and our princes, or disagree; stand or fall.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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