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  • It would be my business cavere ne quid detrimenti Respublica caperet, and wine is dangerous.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • Igitur eo intentior ad victoriam niti, omnibus modis festinare, cavere tamen, necubi [309] hosti opportunus fieret, meminisse post gloriam invidiam sequi.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • : "Ex quo fit, ut nullo modo in theologicis, quæ omnia e libris antiquis hebraicis, grascis, latinis ducuntur, possit aliquis bene in definiendo versari et a peccatis multis et magnis sibi cavere, nisi litteras et historiam assumat."

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • Ubi maxime cavere oportet, ne ante tempus judicemus, et excludere abjicereque, aut excindere conemur eos, quos Dominus excludi abjicique non vult, aut quos sine jactura

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * Augustanae Confessioni, ejusdem Apologiae, Smalcaldicis Articulis, et Catechismis Lutheri repugnent: quos etiam errores omnes pii summi atqueinfimi cavere et vitare debent, nisi aeternae suae salutis jacturam facere velint: [9362] 1

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • His enim postremis temporibus non minus necessarium est, ut homines ad recte et pie vivendi rationem bonaque opera invitentur atque moneantur, quam necessarium sit, ut ad declarandam fidem atque gratitudinem suam erga Deum in bonis operibus sese exerceant: quam, necessarium est, cavere, ne bona opera negotio justificationis admisceantur.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * His enim postremis temporibus non minus necessarium est, ut homines ad recte et pie vivendi rationem bonaque opera invitentur atque moneantur, quam necessarium sit, ut ad declarandam fidem atque gratitudinem suam erga Deum in bonis operibus sese exerceant: quam, necessarium est, cavere, ne bona opera negotio justificationis admisceantur.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • It would be my business cavere ne quid detrimenti Respublica caperet, and wine is dangerous.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Tu, quicunque studebis in hoc libro, prospice, et leviter atque dulciter tractes folia, ut cavere possis rupturam propter ipsorum tenuitatem; et imitare doctrinam Jesu Christi, qui cum modeste aperuisset librum Ysaie et attente legisset, tandem reverenter complicuit ac ministro reddidit.

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • It would be my business _cavere ne quid detrimenti Respublica caperet_, and wine is dangerous.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

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