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Giovando con videocamere ad alta velocità come la Phantom HD, si può facilmente indulgere in troppi ralenti.
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As [655] all conditions shall be tied to their task, so none shall be overtired, but have their set times of recreations and holidays, indulgere genio, feasts and merry meetings, even to the meanest artificer, or basest servant, once a week to sing or dance, (though not all at once) or do whatsoever he shall please; like [656] that
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And whilst the ruder sort are so carried headlong with blind zeal, are so gulled and tortured by their superstitions, their own too credulous simplicity and ignorance, their epicurean popes and hypocritical cardinals laugh in their sleeves, and are merry in their chambers with their punks, they do indulgere genio, and make much of themselves.
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* [6749] Eos, quibus indulgere videtur, quibus parcere, molles venturis malis (Deus) format.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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* [3125] Eos, quibus indulgere videtur, quibus parcere, molles venturis malis (Deus) format.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good but _indulgere genio_, and therefore despise the austere admonitions of the philosopher, and feel not the inward reason they stand upon, yet will be content to be delighted: which is all the good fellow poet seemeth to promise: and so steal to see the form of goodness
English literary criticism Various
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Medea videtur mihi ostendere quantum vir ille præstare potuisset, si ingenio suo temperare, quam indulgere maluisset.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Ovidii Medea videtur mihi ostendere quantum vir ille praestare potuerit, si ingenio suo temperare quam indulgere maluisset [277].
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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[425] So Wyttenbach, who reads [Greek: enstaseis], and translates, "et libertate loquendi in nobis reprehendendis utitur, quando nos cupiditatibus morbisque animi nostri non indulgere, sed resistere, volumus."
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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'Ovidii Medea videtur mihi ostendere, quantum ille vir praestare potuerit, si ingenio suo imperare quam indulgere maluisset.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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