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Hispani otiatores vitam ut plurimum otiosam agentes: artes manuariae quae plurimum habent in se laboris et difficultatis, majoremque requirunt industriam, a peregrinis et exteris exercentur; habitant in piscosissimo mari, interea tantum non piscantur quantum insulae suffecerit sed a vicinis emere coguntur.
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Liceat insuper socijs de societate pr鎑ictorum mercatorum infra regnum & potestatem nostram pr鎑ictas, lanas vendere alijs suis socijs, & similiter emere ab ijsdem absque custuma soluenda.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et quod omnes pr鎑icti mercatores mercandisas suas, quas ipsos ad pr鎑ictum regnum & potestatem nostram adducere, seu infra idem regnum & potestatem nostram emere, vel ali鄐 acquirere contingerit, possint quo voluerint tam infra regnum & potestatem nostram pr鎑ictam, qu鄊 extra ducere vel portare facere, pr鎡erquam ad terras manifestorum
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Scis quanto facilius sit, columbas gallosque gallinaceos emere quam asturconem, et praeter hoc etiam timebam, ne tam grande munus suspectam faceret humanitatem meam.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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I wish to be loved by my own flesh and blood; volo me patris mei similem, qui causa mea nauclerico ipse ornatu per fallaciam quam amabam abduxit ab lenone mulierem; 70 neque puduit eum id aetatis sycophantias struere et beneficiis me emere gnatum suom sibi. eos me decretumst persequi mores patris.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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The lease or sale -- emere is the usual word -- of Church lands for three lives to return to the Church at the end of the third life was very common.
William the Conqueror Edward Augustus Freeman 1857
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Vili vultis emere, et carè vendere; in quo dicto levissimi scenici omnes tamen conscientias invenerunt suas, eique vera et tamen improvisa dicenti admirabili favore plauserunt.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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As such, the piece may be a fitting testament to collecting today, having morphed from the memento mori it was four years ago to a memento emere - that is, from "Remember you must die"
NYT > Home Page By DAVID COLMAN 2010
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Ser earan contempta, & procedat etiam jii - ridke faper Edi£b laefivo iibertatis Eccleiiafti - cc 9 ex eo quia prohibeat Csecularibus emere, li recipere paneoi Francbitianmi Ecclefiafticis debitarani • 'Ead.
Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
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Epifcopns claudat Fumum, dum0iodo Ap - 7 paltator le obliget emere framenta fne Men - lc Epifcopatis in pretio, & quantitate decla - randa a Sac.
Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
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