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Even Bale, that Maharajah of pope-haters, allows himself to quote in favor of Zachary, that "multa Papalem dignitatem decentia, eademque prćclara (scilicet) opera confecit.— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
Et haec dividitur in tres, scilicet: primo ethicam, id est moralem; et secundo oeconomicam, id est dispensativam; et tertio politicam, id est civilem' (Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum_, VII.— An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching
Sed ut primo ad consequendos eos quos priores ducimus accendimur, ita ubi aut praeteriri, aut aequari eos posse desperavimus, studium cum spe senescit: quod, scilicet, assequi non potest, sequi desinit; praeteritoque eo in quo eminere non possumus, aliquid in quo nitamur conquirimus LISIDEIUS concluded, in this manner; and NEANDER, after a little pause, thus answered him I shall grant LISIDEIUS, without much dispute, a great part of what he has urged against us For I acknowledge the French contrive their Plots more regularly; observe the laws of Comedy, and decorum of the Stage_, to speak generally, with more exactness than the English_.— An English Garner Critical Essays ; Literary Fragments
Volto ritrorso; scilicet, versus ortum suum, vel contra: el mar fugire; idest, et Mare Rubrum fugere hinc inde, quando fecit viam populo Dei, qui transivit sicco pede: fu qui mirabile a vedere; idest, miraculosius, chel soccorso que, idest, quam esset mirabile succursum divinum hic venturum ad puniendos perversos."— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
Dum intrassem tot humana cadauera ibi vidi, quod nisi quis videret, credere non posset In hac valle, ab vno eius latere, vidi faciem hominis valdč horribilem, qui tantum horrorem mihi incussit, quňd putaui me spiritum exhalare, propter quod saepč repetij verbum vitć, scilicet, verbum Caro factum est Ad illam faciem non audebam accedere, nisi ad distantiam octo passuum: posteŕ iui ad caput vallis, et ascendi super montem arenosum, in quo vndique circumspiciens, nihil videbam, nisi instrumenta musicalia, quć audiebam fortitčr pulsare.— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II

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