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Aristotle, Vulgus dividi in oppositum contra sapientes, quod vulgo videtur verum, falsum est; that which the commonalty accounts true, is most part false, they are still opposite to wise men, but all the world is of this humour
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Vulgus incolarum descensum esse per voraginem illam ad inferos persuasum habet: Inde cum prælia committuntur alibi in quacunque parte orbis terrarum aut cædes fiunt cruentæ commoueri horrendos circumcirca tumultus & excitari clamores atque eiulatus ingentes longâ experientiâ didicerunt.
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Vulgus enim extraneorum & hominum colluuies nautica (hic enim saniores omnes tam inter nautas quam reliquos excipio,) de hoc insolito naturæ miraculo audiens, ingenito stupore ad istam, de carcere animarum, imaginationem fertur: Siquidem incendio nullam substerni materiam videt, quemadmodum in domesticis focis fieri consueuit.
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Vulgus incolarum descensum esse per voraginem illam ad inferos persuasum habet: Inde cum pr鎙ia committuntur alibi in quacunque parte orbis terrarum aut c鎑es fiunt cruent� commoueri horrendos circumcirca tumultus & excitari clamores atque eiulatus ingentes long� experienti� didicerunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Vulgus enim extraneorum & hominum colluuies nautica (hic enim saniores omnes tam inter nautas quam reliquos excipio,) de hoc insolito natur� miraculo audiens, ingenito stupore ad istam, de carcere animarum, imaginationem fertur: Siquidem incendio nullam substerni materiam videt, quemadmodum in domesticis focis fieri consueuit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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* Vulgus ut in vacua regnet Basiliscus arena: [5833] 1
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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-- Our army was out of protecting distance the troops in the possession of the Works a spiritless Miserabile Vulgus -- in whose hands the fate of America seemed suspended in this Situation his Excellency (in imitation of Cæsar & his tenth legion) called for his Veterans -- the summons arrived at one o'clock in the morning & we took up our line of March at 2.
Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold Archibald Murray Howe
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_Ray_, in his _Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ, &c. _, Art. _Corylus_, speaks of the divining rod: "Vulgus metallicorum ad virgulam divinum, ut vocant, quâ venas metallorum inquírit præ cæteris furcam eligit colurnam."
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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Vulgus quoque militum, clamore et gaudio deflectere via, spatia certaminum recognoscere, aggerem armorum, strues corporum intueri, mirari.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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[261] "Vulgus interdum," says Cicero, "non probandum oratorem probat, sed probat sine comparatione, cùm à mediocri aut etiam â malo delectatur; eo est contentus: esse melius sentit: illud quod est, qualecunque est, probat."
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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