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  • Quae honestam voluptatem respicit, aut corporis exercitium, contemni non debet.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The original Latin speaks of the economic system "qua generatim ad commune rei oeconomicae exercitium ab aliis res, ab aliis opera praestaretur."

    The Justice of Distributism 2007

  • Idem quoque 芼garus 4000. naues congregauit, ex quibus omni anno, post festum Paschale, 1000. naues ad quamlibet Angli� partem statuit, sic, 鎠tate Insulam circumnauigauit: hyeme ver�, iudicia in Prouincia exercuit: & h鎐 omnia ad sui exercitium & ad hostium fecit terrorem. 39

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The explanation given by Leibnitz that it is an _exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi_ is quite inadequate.

    Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

  • + The will moves the intellect quoad exercitium, i.e. in its actual operation: the intellect moves the will quoad specificationem, i.e. by presenting objects to it: nil volitum nisi praecognitum.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • "Ad exercitium Salamandri," says the chairman, and we are ready.

    Three Men on the Bummel 1893

  • * Talibus autem enormibus peccatis Deum valde offendunt, reatum mortis incurrunt, Spiritum S. contristant, fidei exercitium interrumpunt, conscientiam gravissime vulnerant, sensum gratiae nonnunquam ad tempus amittunt: donec per seriam resipiscentiam in vitam revertentibus paternus Dei vultus rursum affulgeat.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Deo gaudii vera sit radix: et consideratio istius beneficii sit stimulus ad serium et continuum gratitudinis et bonorum operum exercitium, ut ex Scripturae testimoniis et sanctorum exemplis constat.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Talibus autem enormibus peccatis Deum valde offendunt, reatum mortis incurrunt, Spiritum S. contristant, fidei exercitium interrumpunt, conscientiam gravissime vulnerant, sensum gratiae nonnunquam ad tempus amittunt: donec per seriam resipiscentiam in vitam revertentibus paternus Dei vultus rursum affulgeat.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Rhetoric, grammar, and dialectics were the regular branches of science, and bold students, who were not afraid of dabbling in forbidden fields, extended their studies to mathematics -- "exercitium nefarium," according to Abelard, which he professed to know nothing about but which he studied nevertheless.

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

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