animula

His most significant proposal in this regard is an account of generation and inheritance in terms of a material ˜soul™ or animula bearing ontogenetic information.

Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

The animula is defined in terms of its constituent atoms, which must be uniform in order that animulae may operate equivalently across different modes of generation, whether ˜pre-organized™ or spontaneous.

Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

* [708] O animula, tremula, vagula, blandula; quae nunc abibis in loca horrida, squalida

Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965

This made a great emperor cry out, on the approach of death, "O animula, tremula, vagula, blandula; quae nunc abibis in loca horrida, squalida," &c.

Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965

In the contemplation of the spirit of man (not your _animula_, by any means!) there is earnest of immortality which needs not that one rise from the dead to confirm it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

_That "animula blandula, vagula, hospes comesque" was about to flee.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Charles Herbert Sylvester

The end was drawing on: the golden bowl was breaking; the silver cord was fast being loosed -- that _animula, blandula, vagula, hospes, comesque_, was about to flee.

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

Isidore tells that the wild Thyme was called in Latin, _Matris animula, quod menstrua movet_.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

It was very hard not to spring to her assistance; but such gallantry would have been excessively ill-timed, so I was forced to sit still while the poor _animula, vagula, blandula_, worked herself free and arose unfettered by my side.

Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert The Seybert Commission

Here are a few passages from letters addressed to his friend Salzmann during his stay at Sesenheim: "It rains without and within, and the hateful evening winds rustle among the vine leaves before my window, and my _animula vagula_ is like yonder weather-cock on the church tower."

The Youth of Goethe Peter Hume Brown 1883