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C — —, who has only good sense, but not the necessary talents nor experience, AEre ciere viros martemque accendere cantu.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Item: Aqua solet vehementes accendere ignes: Quoniam humidum ipsum quod exhalat, pinguius redditur, nec à circumfuso fumo absumitur, sed totum ignis ipse depascitur, quò purior inde factus, ac simul collectus, à frigido alacrior inde redditur.
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Item: Aqua solet vehementes accendere ignes: Quoniam humidum ipsum quod exhalat, pinguius redditur, nec � circumfuso fumo absumitur, sed totum ignis ipse depascitur, qu� purior inde factus, ac simul collectus, � frigido alacrior inde redditur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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* [537] Ære ciere viros, Martemque accendere cantu.
A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967
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Deinde arborés succídere et ígnem accendere cónstituit.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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Ære ciere viros to which he added, in that transport, Martemque accendere cantu: and never was any line more nobly finishd; for the reasons which I have given in the Book of Painting.
Dedication Vergil 1909
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-- All this is well enough, but won't set the Tiber on fire (Tiberim accendere nequaquam potest.)
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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-- All this is well enough, but won't set the Tiber on fire (Tiberim accendere nequaquam potest.)
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Nobody but C-----, who has only good sense, but not the necessary talents nor experience, 'AEre ciere viros martemque accendere cantu'.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Nobody but C-----, who has only good sense, but not the necessary talents nor experience, 'AEre ciere viros martemque accendere cantu'.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1759-65 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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