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  • a poor hard-brained "studiosus," who cannot grasp that rule, inevitable in every career in life, that the second syllable of dropax, antrax, climax "et caethra graeca" in the first case is long, in the second short -- a rule extremely useful to a man later in life when he gets into some big scrape?

    Debts of Honor M��r J��kai 1864

  • Regionum, quieta pace perfruens, studiosus sollicit� de laudibus creatoris omnium occupo addendis.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Robertus Curson ex nobili quodam Anglorum ortus genere, disciplinis tum prophanis, tum sacris studiosus incubuit, idque

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • MSS. of some _studiosus emeritus_ -- a sort of life in Heidelberg, entering into great detail concerning university doings, and with illustrations of a very sportive description; wherein mustached and bespurred cavaliers are slashing at each other with broad swords, or cantering over the country mounted upon gallant steeds, and looking something between Dick Turpins and field-marshals in muftee.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

  • Bonn, and even at that period the extraordinary application and the commanding faculties of the "studiosus Kinkel" had earned for him a scholastic reputation, and won the respect of his fellow-students and of the professors of the university.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • Investigatam diutissime quaestionem, quantum nostrae mentis igniculum lux diuina dignata est, formatam rationibus litterisque mandatam offerendam uobis communicandamque curaui tam uestri cupidus iudicii quam nostri studiosus inuenti.

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

  • The third is our new fellow pupil in the field of dramaturgic activity, the _studiosus theologiae_, who is detained at present at the corner of

    The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

  • Scarcely to be classed among any of these was the young poet Julius Paulus, [2] who, as he put it to himself with the frank grandiosity of youth, was in search of the flame of life -- _studiosus ardoris vivendi_.

    Roads from Rome 1901

  • Erat Basilius hujus canonis observandi studiosus, et quamvis nominis fama et sedis dignitate plurimum posset, nunquam ab eo communionis restitutionem impetrare potuerunt Marcelli discipuli, antequam Petri Alexandrini auctoritates accessisset: et cum ab

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • In the midst of snares unnumbered, he only redoubled his austerities -- "_in sanctitate persistens, studiosus valde_," so the record says.

    The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches David Starr Jordan 1891

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