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[308] "Sedens igitur in claustro pluries fatigatus, sensu habetato, virtutibus frustratus, pessimis cogitationibus sæpe sauciatus, tum propter lectionum longitudinem ac orationum lassitudinem, propter vanas jactantias et opera pessima in sæculo præhabita ...."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Lescrop, Chivaler_, cum invitasset convivas, et, hora convivii jam instante et apparatu facto, spe frustratus esset, excusantibus se convivis cur non compararent, prorupit iratus in haec verba: "_Veniant igitur omnes dæmones, si nullus hominum mecum esse potest_!"
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Tertullian (Apolog.c. 5) considers this rescript as a relaxation of the ancient penal laws, "quas Trajanus exparte frustratus est:" and yet Tertullian, in another part of his
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Tertullian (Apolog.c. 5) considers this rescript as a relaxation of the ancient penal laws, “quas Trajanus exparte frustratus est: “and yet Tertullian, in another part of his Apology, exposes the inconsistency of prohibiting inquiries, and enjoining punishments.] 60 Eusebius (Hist.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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