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  • Bellonius, Rondoletius, Hippolitus Salvianus, &c. [3326] Arcana coeli, naturae secreta, ordinem universi scire majoris felicitatis et dulcedinis est, quam cogitatione quis assequi possit, aut mortalis sperare.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem, the only hope for the conquered is despair.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • * [590] Stultitia est morte alterius sperare salutem.

    A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967

  • Nisi tamen intellego [153] illum supra quam ego sum petere, neque simul amicitiam vestram et regnum meum sperare.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • There is but one passage that can be held to afford the slightest evidence for a later date, _Med_. 163 'qui nil potest sperare, desperet nihil' seems to be an echo of _Ep_.v. 7 'sed ut huius quoque diei lucellum tecum communicem, apud Hecatonem nostrum inveni ... "desines", inquit, "timere, si sperare desieris".'

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Neque enim famae iactatione et inanibus uulgi clamoribus excitamur; sed si quis est fructus exterior, hic non potest aliam nisi materiae similem sperare sententiam.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • [11] "Ceteros jam nosti; qui ita sunt stulti, ut amissâ republicâ piscinas suas fore salvas sperare videantur."

    Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Undecim aureos deposui: quo die quicquid ante matris funus (quod serum sit precor) de paternis bonis sperare licet, viginti scilicet libras accepi.

    Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

  • Quam sibi veniam sperare possunt impietatis suae, qui non agnoscunt cultum ejus, quem prorsus ignorari ab hominibus fas non est? saith Lactantius; "How can they hope for pardon of their impiety, who deny to worship that God, of whom it is not possible mankind should be wholly ignorant?"

    The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 05. 1630-1694 1820

  • * Quam sibi veniam sperare possunt impietatis: [576] 1

    The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 05. 1630-1694 1820

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