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Érasme et Luther, libre et serf arbitre: Étude historique et théologique.

Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

Ils pourraient faire un choix différent si le Parti communiste chinois abandonnait son monopole de pouvoir, si la Chine cessait une obstruction systématique contre Taïwan, si elle renonçait à l'usage de la force, ainsi qu'à ses missiles braqués sur l'île, et si Pékin, enfin, respectait pleinement le libre-arbitre de 23 millions de Taïwanais.

Chen Shui Bian's Figaro interview Sun Bin 2006

I don't mind being told by that arbitre des élégances that I write "like my worst authors" (and to support that verdict Mr. Vidal quotes one of my sentences, which I admit is a semicliché, but nothing worse than that); but Mr. Vidal himself writes sentences such as this: "One would think that the pornographer would think that his readers would want to know exactly how each body looked."

Pornography Girodias, Maurice 1966

That he was not the originator of the theory known as "liberty of indifference" (_liberum arbitrium indifferentiae_) is shown in G. Fonsegrive's _Essai sur le libre arbitre_, pp. 119, 199 (1887).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Methink it is not the right train of a trusty loving friend and servant, when the matter is put by the master's consent into his arbitre and judgment (specially in a matter wherein his master hath both royalty and interest), to elect and choose a person which was by him defended (forbidden).

Henry VIII. 1908

Par quoi mous rejetons tout ce qu'on enseigne du franc arbitre de l'homme, parce qu'il n'est que serf de peche, [405] et ne peut aucune chose, s'il ne lui est donne du Ciel; [406] car qui est-ce qui se vantera de pouvoir faire quelque bien, comme de soi-meme, puisque

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

* Par quoi mous rejetons tout ce qu'on enseigne du franc arbitre de l'homme, parce qu'il n'est que serf de peche, Es. xxvi.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

In Latin, the term used was "liberum arbitrium," -- free choice, -- and in French to this day it remains in strictness "libre arbitre" still.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

Two centuries have been employed by the opponents of power in establishing the doubtful doctrine of the/libre arbitre/, -- liberty of will.

Catherine De Medici Honor�� de Balzac 1824

King of Spain: and where before he was the sole arbitre of Italy, he brought in a competitor, to the end that all the ambitious persons of that country, and all that were ill affected to him, might have otherwhere to make their recourse: and whereas he might have left in that Kingdome some Vice-King of his own, he took him from thence, to place another there, that might afterward chace him thence.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498