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  • Creavitque Deus cete grandia, et omnem animam viventem atque motabilem, quam produxerant aquæ in species suas, et omne volatile secundum genus suum.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008

  • Creavitque Deus cete grandia, et omnem animam viventem atque motabilem, quam produxerant aquæ in species suas, et omne volatile secundum genus suum.

    Snakes in the water and other discoveries Prof. de Breeze 2008

  • A silly fellow to look to, may have more wit, learning, honesty, than he that struts it out Ampullis jactans, &c. grandia gradiens, and is admired in the world's opinion: Vilis saepe cadus nobile nectar habet, the best wine comes out of an old vessel.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • (And God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature which hath a living soul.) “Creavit Deus cete grandia, et omnem animam viventem, atque motabilem quam produxerant aquæ.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Cete grandia instar montium prope Islandium aliquando conspiciuntur, quæ naues euertunt, nisi tubarum sono absterreantur, aut missis in mare rotundis & vacuis vasis, quorum lusu delectantur, ludificentor.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Cete grandia instar montium prope Islandium aliquando conspiciuntur, qu� naues euertunt, nisi tubarum sono absterreantur, aut missis in mare rotundis & vacuis vasis, quorum lusu delectantur, ludificentor.

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

  • Quod quum statuerit, tum, ut quidque erit dicendum, ita dicet, nec satura jejune, nec grandia minute, nec item contra, sed erit rebus ipsis par et aequalis oratio.

    II. The Practice of Writing 1916

  • Electos et regenitos non posse fidem et Spiritum Sanctum amittere aut damnari, quamvis omnis generis grandia peccata et flagitia committant.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Electos et regenitos non posse fidem et Spiritum Sanctum amittere aut damnari, quamvis omnis generis grandia peccata et flagitia committant.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Ista tua Carmina Chamouniana satis grandia esse mihi constat; sed hoc mihi nonnihil displicet, quòd in iis illae montium Grisosonum inter se responsiones totidem reboant anglice, _God, God_, haud aliter atque temet audivi tuas monies Cumbrianas resonare docentes, _Tod, Tod_, nempe

    The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

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