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The first clear notice of this change of views is the "Apologia, qua respondetur temeritati calumniatorum non verentium confictis criminibus in populare odium protrahere reverendissimum in Christo patrem et dominum Albertum".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Hofce reliquosque omnes et fmgulos foii« tes adire, protrahere recooditos thefauros, fiiisqoe locnlis inferere, vt qaousque hodie Florae domi - nium pateat, cogaofceretur, vtut difficilis labor, jaoa
Caroli a Linné ... Systema vegetabilivm secvndvm classes, ordines, genera, species cvm characteribvs et differentiis. Editio decima quarta praecedente longe avctior et correctior cvrante Io. Andrea Mvrray .. Murray, Johann Andreas, 1740-1791 1784
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Brevia aliqua annum ad Incamationis diem protrahere.
Subsidia diplomatica ad selecta juris Ecclesiastici Germaniae: et historiarum capita elucidanda ... 1778
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£iti protoUcre fines 5. 310 protractxqne 6. 563 verum protrahcre inde i. protrahere ad geftum pue - ros5.
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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