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My. curae mea gaudia turbant: cura dapes sequitur, magis inter pocula surgit et grauis anxietas laetis incumbere gaudet.
Redeunt Saturnia Regna Anonymous 1912
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Tarbigilus regione tonat; modo tendere cursum in Galatas, modo Bithynis incumbere fertur. sunt qui per Cilicas rupto descendere Tauro, sunt qui correptis ratibus terraque marique145 aduentare ferant; geminantur uera pauoris ingenio: longe spectari e puppibus urbis accensas, lucere fretum uentoque citatas omnibus in pelago uelis haerere fauillas.
A Council of War-and War Claudian 1912
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Cum autem relatum sit oratores nulli labore parcere in sacris expeditionibus peragendis, et in proximorum conversione, Christianaque institutione curanda, et idcirco a pluribus Antistibus commendentur, visum est SSmo Domino magis expedire eos a præfata Congregatione eximi, ut in sacri ministerii opera promovenda sub directione Antistitum locorum incumbere possint.
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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Tutius est pignori incumbere quam in personam agere.
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Cicero uses “in”; I recollect, incumbere in opus … ad opus.
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845
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[54] Legis substantia est sex diebus, terrenis negotiis incumbere; septima, divino cultui dare operam.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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* Legis substantia est sex diebus, terrenis negotiis incumbere; septima, divino cultui dare operam.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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Noller cerce Bolgenius talem invenire Apologiscam, qui sic su« famae ficterariae prospiceret • Consilium fuisset optimum j ut sicut Cortesii 'validissima argumenta, quibus expedieidis debuisset incumbere 1 praetetnisit » sic etiam P. Gazzanigx defensionen omisisset •
Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792
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j f Qiiod tibi exemplò Prophetx ollendi, incumbere coafto lateri uni 390 dies.
Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ... Christoph Kotter , Krystyna Poniatowska 1657
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