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  • "You do ill to teach the child such words: he teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do fast enough of themselves; and to call horum; fye upon you!"

    Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman 1818

  • You Far Easters like 'em black, I believe ... go on, man utrum horum mavis accipe, * (* Take whichever you prefer.) and take your ease!

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Osanna, Sanctus Deus Sabaoth, superillustrans claritate tua felices ignes horum malacoth!

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Say now, are these men [421] mad or no, [422] Heus age responde? are they ridiculous? cedo quemvis arbitrum, are they sanae mentis, sober, wise, and discreet? have they common sense? — — — [423] uter est insanior horum?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sodomia; officinae horum alicubi apud Turcas, — qui saxis semina mandant — arenas arantes; et frequentes querelae, etiam inter ipsos conjuges hac de re, quae virorum concubitum illicitum calceo in oppositam partem verso magistratui indicant; nullum apud Italos familiare magis peccatum, qui et post [4698] Lucianum et [4699] Tatium, scriptis voluminibis defendunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Daminus mendacii a seipso deceptus, alios decipere cupit, adversarius humani generis, Inventor mortis, superbiae institutor, radix malitiae, scelerum caput, princeps omnium vitiorum, fuit inde in Dei contumeliam, hominum perniciem: de horum conatibus et operationibus lege Epiphanium.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quis horum scribere molestias potest, nisi qui et is aliquantum insanit?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Si aliquis horum morborum, summus sanatur, sanantur omnes inferiores.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quid tibi videtur facturus Democritus, si horum spectator contigisset?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et respectu horum non dicitur habere scientiam visionis, sed simplicis intelligentiae.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

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