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  • Fures privitorum in nervo atque incompedipus aetatem agunt; fures publici in auro atque inpurpura

    Police Investigate MP’s Expenses « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Fures privatorum in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt; fures publici in auro atque in purpura. on June 20, 2009 at 6: 51 pm uphilldowndale

    Police Investigate MP’s Expenses « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Isn't fly fishing supposed to bring some kind of celestial auro?

    Real Men of Genius ... Mr. Tim Romano 2007

  • Illum argento et auro, illum ebore, marmore effingit, et nuper ingenti adhibito auditorio ingentem de vita ejus librum recitavit.epist. lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ubi omnia auro nitent, where everything shines with gold, saith Erasmus, St. Thomas's shrine, &c., may witness.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A poor man drinks in a wooden dish, and eats his meat in wooden spoons, wooden platters, earthen vessels, and such homely stuff: the other in gold, silver, and precious stones; but with what success? in auro bibitur venenum, fear of poison in the one, security in the other.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nothing so familiar in these days, as for a young man to marry an old wife, as they say, for a piece of gold; asinum auro onustum; and though she be an old crone, and have never

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [5827] Amoris vulnus idem qui sanat facit; which if it be so, that water, as he holds, is omni auro pretiosior, better than any gold.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [5183] Plurimus auro conciliatur amor: as Jupiter corrupted

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sigillum ex auro peculiari ad Melancholiam, &c. 2800.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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