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  • Several others, including "Quidam," tour cities around the world.

    An Act of Daring 2008

  • Quidam has given his previous creation competition with this one featuring "Benna the Stein".

    Benna the Stein James F. McGrath 2008

  • You will remember that in Kierkegaard Nebuchadnezzar, after he had been changed back from a beast in the field to a man, says of Yahweh, "Nobody knows who his father was, or who taught him the secret of his strength" [quoted from Quidam in Stages on Life's Way] and I speculate in a perfectly Kabbalistic way, I say — I speculate that a perfectly — aren't you going to eat it —?

    An Interview with Harold Bloom 2006

  • Quidam mugitus boum aemulantur, et pecora se putant, ut

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quidam sunt qui pauperes esse volunt ita ut nihil illis desit, sic commendant ut nullam patiantur inopiam; sunt et alii mites, quamdiu dicitur et agitur ad eorum arbitrium,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quidam larvas, et malos spiritus ab inimicis veneficius et incantationibus sibi putant objectari, Hippocrates, potionem se veneficam sumpsisse putat, et de hac ructare sibi crebro videtur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quidam maxime comedere nituntur, putantes ea ratione se vires refecturos; ignorantes, non ea quae ingerunt posse vires reficere, sed quae probe concoquunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quidam ex illo capti sunt amore virginum, et libidine victi defecerunt, ex quibus gigantes qui vocantur, nati sunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quidam prae verecundia simul et dolore in insaniam incidunt, eo quod a literatorum gradu in examine excluduntur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quidam conquestus est mihi de hoc morbo, et deprecatus est ut ego illum curarem; ego quaesivi ab eo quid sentiret; respondit, semper imaginor et cogito de Deo et angelis, &c. et ita demersus sum hac imaginatione, ut nec edam nec dormiam, nec negotiis, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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