remissly

• “Our lives are too short to be fruitlessly employed, or remissly passed.”

  On vacation

• “For those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion are still in war; and their condition, not peace, but only”

  Leviathan

• “Another main fault is, that I have not revised the copy, and amended the style, which now flows remissly, as it was first conceived; but my leisure would not permit; Feci nec quod potui, nec quod volui, I confess it is neither as I would, nor as it should be.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Lemnius subscribes to that of Cardan, and assigns this reason, Quod persolvant debitum languide, et obscitanter, unde foetus a parentum generositate desciscit: they pay their debt (as Paul calls it) to their wives remissly, by which means their children are weaklings, and many times idiots and fools.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Sadly Mrs Chubb remissly had the remains of the shed removed by bulldozer before proper forensic examination, the person performing the autopsy was no Amanda Burton, and the "other will" favouring the deceased Judge's distraught girlfriend Kerry Sparrow has never been found.”

  Man in a Shed Widow: Actually Lived in Midsomer?

• “Cursed be he who does the Lords work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood.”

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• “In some they are more accurately fitted, in others more remissly or carelessly contrived, and always with a view to their being closed under a greater or a slighter force of the ventricle.”

  On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

• “The accounts they brought were not unfounded; but neither the senate were so much affected by the circumstance; and Caius Sempronius, to whom the province fell by lot, relying on fortune, as if a most constant object, because he was the leader of a victorious state against one frequently vanquished, executed all his measures carelessly and remissly; so that there was more of the Roman discipline in the Volscian than in the Roman army.”

  The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08

• “Their commission was executed more remissly by the Albans.”

  The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08

• “Consequently S. Basil says [214]: "The Divine assistance is to be implored, not remissly, nor with a mind that wanders here and there; for such a one not only will not obtain what he asks, but will rather be mocking God.”

  On Prayer and The Contemplative Life

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