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Mar et Garioch, Angus et Mernis, et facto acerrimo congressu, occisi sunt ex parte comitis de Mar Jacobus Scrymgeour constabularius de Dundé, Alexander de Irevin, Robertus de Malvile et Thomas Murrave milites, Willelmus de Abirnethy ... et alii valentes armigeri, necnon Robertus David consul de Abirdene, cum multis burgensibus.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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Non peculatus aerarii factus est, neque per vim sociis ereptae pecuniae, quae quamquam gravia sunt, tamen consuetudine jam pro nihilo habentur: hosti acerrimo prodita senatus auctoritas, proditum imperium vestrum, domi militiaeque res publica venalis fuit.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Antonio, who thoroughly examined the questions and characteristics of those times when all theologians discussed questions which are to-day considered useless, says that some excuse can be made for this defect if one considers the energy and vigour of his genius, vir fuit acerrimo ingenio.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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"Puellas crudelinece interfecerunt ita ut ligatis brachiis super equorum cervicibus, ipsique acerrimo moti stimulo per diversa petentes diversas in partes feminas diviserunt"
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Farewell, and may success attend the acerrimo pro-pugnatori.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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Milan, with the following curious inscription: "Questo e il naturale ritratto di Tito Otez, o vero Oatz, Inglese, posto in berlina, uno de 'principali professor della religion protestante, acerrimo persecutore de' Cattolici, e gran spergiuro."
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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Nam quod mortem contemnunt, id quidem omnes ante oculos habemus; item quod verecundia quadam ducti ab usu rerum venerearum abhorrent. sunt enim inter eos et feminae et viri, qui per totam vitam a concubitu abstinuerint; [372] sunt etiam qui in animis regendis coercendisque et in acerrimo honestatis studio eo progressi sint, ut nihil cedant vere philosophantibus.”
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Tigre p. 97, 98.)] [Footnote 99: Take a specimen, the death of the caliph Motaz: Correptum pedibus pertrahunt, et sudibus probe permulcant, et spoliatum laceris vestibus in sole collocant, prae cujus acerrimo aestu pedes alternos attollebat et demittebat.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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& illa eum ficftantem acerrimo obtutu contemplari.
Speculum peccatorum aspirantium ad solidam vitae emendationem, siue, Admiranda S. Augustini conversio : historica eiusdem narratione, discursibus moralibus, et emblematis adornata : cum indice concionum per quatuor octauas eiusdem diui et dominicos dies Quellinus, Erasmus, 1607-1678 1637
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D’Anville, l’Euphrate et le Tigre p. 97, 98.)] 99 Take a specimen, the death of the caliph Motaz: Correptum pedibus pertrahunt, et sudibus probe permulcant, et spoliatum laceris vestibus in sole collocant, prae cujus acerrimo aestu pedes alternos attollebat et demittebat.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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