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  • They take upon them to be peacemakers, et fovere causas humilium, to help them to their right, patrocinantur afflictis, [512] but all is for their own good, ut loculos pleniorom exhauriant, they plead for poor men gratis, but they are but as a stale to catch others.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quoniam igitur in hac nostra republica nobis commissum est artium optimarum studium fovere, et eos in his apprime institutos aequo commendare, notum sit quod nos, Praeses et Socii Universitatis Carolinae Septemtrionalis, Davidem Caldwell, jam multis annis Pastorem Ecclesiarum Bubuli et Allemanciae propter pietatem singularem, eruditionem eximiam, et mores probos, Gradu Doctorali in Sacrosancta Theologia condecoravimus, atque ei Theologiam Sacrosanctam docendi et profitendi potestatem concessimua.

    History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

  • Deinde secundum leges aequas judicare populum: tueri pacem, publicam: rempublicam fovere, sontes pro delicti ratione mulctare, opibus, corpore, vita.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * Deinde secundum leges aequas judicare populum: tueri pacem, publicam: rempublicam fovere, sontes pro delicti ratione mulctare, opibus, corpore, vita.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Te perget gremio grata fovere senem; Officiumque pium simili pietate rependens,

    Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

  • [Footnote 309: 'Nostri sedes delegit fovere _Imperii_.'] 'The sight of a chariot-race (spectaculum) drives out morality and invites the most trifling contentions; it is the emptier of honourable conduct, the ever-flowing spring of squabbles: a thing which Antiquity commenced as a matter of religion, but which a quarrelsome posterity has turned into a sport.

    The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

  • Let me be thankful that it was given to me _assidere valetudini, fovere deficientem, satiari vultu, complexu_.

    Spare Hours John Brown 1846

  • Quam suspicionem fovere mihi videtur illud, quod vocabuli ψυχῆς, pro anima, nulla idonea analogia in lingua græca occurrat; nam quæ a ψύχω ducitur, cum verus huius et directus significatus notorie sit refrigero, indirectus autem magis, spiro, nihil certe hæc ad animam puto.”

    Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861

  • Saepe eitiam efibifis, fi vera eft fama, latebria Sub terr& fovere larem, penitusque repertae Pumidbusque cavis exe (k: que arboris antro.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

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