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And thus, while he is ever to look back on the mercy received as the source and motive of the mercy which he shows, he also looks forward to the mercy which he yet needs, and which he is assured that the merciful -- according to what Bengel beautifully calls the benigna talio ( 'the gracious requital') of the kingdom of God -- shall receive, as a new provocation to its abundant exercise.
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Most of these stories were benigna strange coincidence, an intriguing twist.
Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008
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Galliae et Italiae Regiones, molli tepore, et benigna quadam temperie prorsus antecellit, Jovi.
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Femina prima parens exosa, maligna, superba; Femina virgo parens casta, benigna, pia.
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Paulina ueri et castitatis conscia, dicata templis atque amica numinum, 55 sibi maritum praeferens, Romam uiro, pudens fidelis pura mente et corpore, benigna cunctis, utilis penatibus
Epitaph of M. Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and Paulina his Wife Anonymous 1912
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Corpore valido, Pectore animoso, Indole apprime benigna, Et fere supra facultates munifica Insignis.
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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Liber in ve - ftìbulo adeft, feque ultro legenti of -- fert, fatis fuperque beatus, fi cui pla - cuerit ex illis, guibut arte benigna E meliore lutojin%ÌP pracordia Titan*
Iosephi Torelli Veronensis Geometrica Giuseppe Torelli 1769
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Edwardi foboies quarti, tibi feptime coniux H £ N R I c £, heu populi cura benigna tuu Exemplex vite qua nee preftantior altra Maribus, ingenio, nee probitate fuit.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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'tis a wonder they be not all plunged over head and ears in love; for youth is benigna in amorem, et prona materies, a very combustible matter, naphtha itself, the fuel of love's fire, and most apt to kindle it.
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&c. (O spotless one, &c.), and he bowed himself down before her as he sang, "O benigna, O benigna!"
The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself. Heinrich or Suso 1865
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