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  • Other good rules and precepts are enjoined by our physicians, which, if not alone, yet certainly conjoined, may do much; the first of which is obstare principiis, to withstand the beginning, [5634] Quisquis in primo obstitit, Pepulitque amorem tutus ac victor fuit, he that will but resist at first, may easily be a conqueror at the last.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • * Non tamen obstare quin gradum suum obtineat anima, ideoque seorsum poni debuerit: [1052] 1

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • [115] "Non tamen obstare quin gradum suum obtineat anima, ideoque seorsum poni debuerit."

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • _Qui non obstat quod obstare potest facere videtur: _ "He who does not prevent what he can prevent seems, to commit the thing."

    The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 Various

  • Pieriosque dies et habentis carmina somnos. litus utrumque domi, nec te mitissimus amnis diuidit. alternas seruant praetoria ripas, 25 non externa sibi fluuiumue obstare queruntur.

    A Villa at Tibur 1912

  • Qui docent, 'Gratiam, qua convertimur ad Deum, nihil aliud esse quam lenem suasionem; seu' (ut alii explicant) 'nobilissimum agendi modum in conversione hominis, et naturae humanae convenientissimum esse, qui fiat suasionibus; nihilque obstare quo minus vel sola moralis gratia homines animales reddat spirituales; imo Deum non aliter quam morali ratione consensum voluntatis producere: atque in eo consistere operationis divinae efficaciam, qua Satanae operationem superet, quod

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * Qui docent, 'Gratiam, qua convertimur ad Deum, nihil aliud esse quam lenem suasionem; seu' (ut alii explicant) 'nobilissimum agendi modum in conversione hominis, et naturae humanae convenientissimum esse, qui fiat suasionibus; nihilque obstare quo minus vel sola moralis gratia homines animales reddat spirituales; imo Deum non aliter quam morali ratione consensum voluntatis producere: atque in eo consistere operationis divinae efficaciam, qua Satanae operationem superet, quod Deus aeterna bona, Satan autem temporaria promittat.'

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • “nihil tamen obstare quin in eadem civitate duo aliquando cætus disterminati fuerint.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Men obesse, illos prodesse, me obstare, illos obsequi! "

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

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