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The Missa ‘Floruit egregius infans Livinus’ is in an early style.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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The most egregius and awful effects of war, racism, global warming etc. leave virtually ALL Torah Jews totally unaffected - indeed, they actively cheer most of these things.
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More than four hundred years from the day he packed up his things and headed for Rome from the small Lombardy town in which he grew up, Michelangelo Merisi of Caravaggio (1571-1610) is still, to borrow the wording of one of his contracts, 'top painter in the City' (egregius in Urbe pictor).
The Real Caravaggio Rowland, Ingrid D. 1999
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Nocte quadam [°7] contigit ut eum doctor egregius Finnianus cum annona frumenti ad molendinum transmitteret.
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Torquatus bello Gallico filium suum, quod is contra imperium in hostem pugnaverat, necare jussit, [298] atque ille egregius adolescens immoderatae fortitudinis morte poenas dedit: vos de crudelissimis parricidis quid statuatis cunctamini?
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Tractavit etiam omnem ferè studiorum materiam; In philosophiâ parum diligens, egregius tamen vitiorum insectator.
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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Quis rebus supra bonum atque honestum [429] perculsus, neque lacrimas tenere neque moderari linguam; [430] vir egregius in aliis artibus nimis molliter aegritudinem pati.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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In prælio strenuus, in victoriâ clemens, heros egregius.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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Vipstanius Messala præerat, claris majoribus, egregius ipse, et qui solus ad id bellum artes bonas attulisset.
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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German chronicle which reads: "Merito a nobis nostrisque posteris pater patriae appelatur quia erat egregius defensor et fortissimus propugnator nihili pendens vitam suam contra omnia adversa propter justitiam opponere."
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886
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