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  • Proximorum incuriosi longinqua sectamur, et ad ea cognoscenda iter ingredi et mare transmittere solemus; at quae sub oculis posita negligimus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nec enim loculis comitan tibus itur, ad casum tabulae, posita sed luditur arca Leinnius instit.ca. 44. mendaciorum quidem, et perjuriorum et paupertatis mater est alea, nullam habens patrimonii reverentiam, quum illud effuderit, sensim in furta delabitur et rapinas.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Suddenly Gene stood up and waved his hand over the soup, chanting in Latin, “In conspectu Dei, omniumque in coelo et in terra habitantium, solemniter declaramus quod omnia super hanc lanceam posita, nunc pisces sunt.”

    Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

  • Suddenly Gene stood up and waved his hand over the soup, chanting in Latin, “In conspectu Dei, omniumque in coelo et in terra habitantium, solemniter declaramus quod omnia super hanc lanceam posita, nunc pisces sunt.”

    Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

  • Sobrij quoque sunt, quapropter et longo tempore viuunt: et si quis ab eorum moribus degenerat, proscribitur perpetuò sine mora, omnibus nulla posita differentia personarum, vnde et in iusto Dei iudicio, quòd naturalem exercere iustitiam contendunt, Elementa eis naturaliter obsequuntur, et rarò eos tangit tempestas, aut fames, pestilentia aut gladius.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Indè transiui per 8. dietas per multas terras et ciuitates, et veni tandem per aquam dulcem ad quandam ciuitatem nomine Leneyn, quæ est posita super flumen vocatum Caramoran, quod per medium Catai transit, et magnum damnum sibi infert, quando erumpit.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Est etiam posita super quendam magnum fluuium, et est quasi portus, habens forum maximum.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Since vice and misery are discovered to be the mala bene posita, the indispensible evils without which the pillars of creation would tumble into ruins, we must be careful to touch them with the utmost tenderness, or rather we must be careful not to touch them on any account.

    Selection from _Enquiry Concerning Population_ 2002

  • Cúmque ad illos accedere attentassent, minimè potuerunt: quia nubes quædam erat posita ante ipsos, vltra quam ire nullatenus poterant.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Chingischam imperator Quandam tamen partem illius terræ, quia posita erat in mari nullatenus deuicerunt vsque hodie.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

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