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  • No one can have done better than you have, in all respects, et de l'aveu de tout le monde; but you are, I see, non nescius aure fallacis, and in Ireland the winds rise suddenly, and are violent and blast, quand on y pense le moins.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • If all stories and jests are to be traced to a few originals, perhaps the many eccentric tales of Jack on horseback may be found in a very old anecdote of a certain _Venetus insuetus ac nescius equitare_ -- a Venetian unaccustomed to and ignorant of riding, who, when mounted on horseback, having inadvertently spurred the animal, exclaimed, as it reared and plunged:

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Et in eâdem civitate, eodem mense Aprilis, eodem die 6, eâdem horâ primâ, anno autem Domini 1348, ab hac luce lux illa subtracta est, cum ego forte Veronæ essem, heu fati mei nescius!

    Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

  • "Ovis, drachma, filius perditus: peccator stupidus, sui plane nescius, sciens et voluntarius."

    The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

  • ADVLESCENS tam etsi properas, hoc te saxulum rogat ut se aspicias, deinde, quod scriptum est, legas. hic sunt poetae Pacuui Marci sita ossa. hoc uolebam, nescius ne esses. uale.

    His Own Epitaph 1912

  • No one can have done better than you have, in all respects, et de l'aveu de tout le monde; but you are, I see, non nescius aure fallacis, and in Ireland the winds rise suddenly, and are violent and blast, quand on y pense le moins.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • But what if I am seventy-two; I remember Sulpitius says of Saint Martin (now that's above your reading), Est animus victor annorum et senectuti cedere nescius.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • That to be a covenant refuser is a sin that makes the times perilous; to be _foederis nescius_, or _infoederabilis_.

    The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

  • That same stomachus cedere nescius found in most, is the thing that foments quarrels, and keeps men at such unpeaceable distances.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • But what if I am seventy-two; I remember Sulpitius says of Saint Martin (now that's above your reading), _Est animus victor annorum et senectuti cedere nescius_.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

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