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  • Quaeris a me quantum operantur astra? dico, in nos nihil astra urgere, sed animos praeclives trahere: qui sic tamen liberi sunt, ut si ducem sequantur rationem, nihil efficiant, sin vero naturam, id agere quod in brutis fere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For a moment in the first book he flashes upon us in his full splendour (143): sed non in Caesare tantum nomen erat nec fama ducis: sed nescia virtus stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello. acer et indomitus, quo spes quoque ira vocasset. ferre manum et numquam temerando parcere ferro, successus urgere suos, instare fauori numinis, inpellens quidquid sibi summa petenti obstaret, gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.

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

  • Paucis enim minimisque natura contenta est, cuius satietatem si superfluis urgere uelis, aut iniucundum quod infuderis fiet aut noxium.

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

  • Et hanc corporalem disciplinam oportet semper urgere, non solum paucis et constitutis diebus.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Et hanc corporalem disciplinam oportet semper urgere, non solum paucis et constitutis diebus.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Nam Evangelium cogit urgere doctrinam in ecclesiis de gratia et justitia fidei, quae tamen intelligi non potest, si putent homines se mereri gratiam per observationes ab ipsis electas.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Nam Evangelium cogit urgere doctrinam in ecclesiis de gratia et justitia fidei, quae tamen intelligi non potest, si putent homines se mereri gratiam per observationes ab ipsis electas.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • 'Corpus ille perimere vel jugulare potest; nec id modò, verùm et animam ita urgere, et in angustum coarctare novit, ut in momento quoque illi excedendum sit.'

    Poems Samuel Rogers 1809

  • See Baum, _ubi supra_, 45-54.] [Footnote 1091: "Cardinalis testatus iterum non urgere se transubstantiationem."

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • Successus urgere suos; instare favori Numinis” ” Lucan, lib. i.

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

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