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  • Sol occasum nesciens, stella semper rutilans, semper clara.

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  • Sol occasum nesciens, stella semper rutilans, semper clara.

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  • O nimis felix meritique celsi nesciens labem nivei pudoris, prepotens martyr heremique cultor, maxime vatum!

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  • Superstitio ex ignorantia divinitatis emersit, ex vitiosa aemulatione et daemonis illecebris, inconstans, timens, fluctuans, et cui se addicat nesciens, quem imploret, cui se committat, a daemone facile decepta.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • There was used much, indeed undue, emphasis, said some, in order to impress upon the youngsters that a serious change of life was upon them, for, quoth the elders: "Beanus est animal nesciens vitam studiosorum."

    From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

  • [3] "In ætate tam tenera et scibilium nescia, qui necdum se scire poterat, miro modo Deum adhuc nesciens, divino ductus instinctu scire quærebat.

    On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907

  • For this knowledge it is not, which ‘puffeth up;’ but its opposite, the conceit of false knowledge, — the conceit, in truth, as the apostle notices, of an ignorance of the very nature of knowledge: — ‘Nam nesciens quid scire sit,

    Spare Hours John Brown 1846

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