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  • Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui respicis terram, et facis eam tremere: parce metuentibus, propitiare supplicibus: ut, cuius iram terræ fundamenta concutientem expavimus, clementiam contritiones eius sanantem iugiter sentiamus.

    Global Warming John 2008

  • Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui respicis terram, et facis eam tremere: parce metuentibus, propitiare supplicibus: ut, cujus iram terrae fundamenta concutientem expavimus, clementiam contritiones ejus sanantem jugiter sentiamus.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Neckam, writing in that century, refers to the usefulness of the Vine when trained against the wall-front: "Pampinus latitudine suâ excipit æris insultus, cum res ita desiderat, et fenestra clementiam caloris solaris admittat."

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

  • Apostolicæ gratiam et Christi in terris Vicarii clementiam desperatam

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

  • [14] "Tantam enim mansuetudinem, tam inusitatam inauditamque clementiam, tantum in summâ potestate rerum omnium modum, tam denique incredibilem sapientiam ac paene divinam tacitus nullo modo praeterire possum."

    Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Lactantius: Nam cum clementiam specie tenus profiteretur, occidi servos

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Note: It is easy to reconcile them; it is sufficient to quote the entire text of Lactantius: Nam cum clementiam specie tenus profiteretur, occidi servos Dei vetuit, debilitari jussit.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • [Footnote 505: 'Justitiam nos et aequabilem clementiam, quae populos nutrit, juvante domino, custodire et _Gothis Romanisque apud nos jus esse commune_, nec aliud inter vos esse divisum, nisi quod illi labores bellicos pro communi utilitate subeunt, vos autem civitatis

    The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

  • Quantum ex parte nostra est, quæcunque pro pristina regni hujus felicïtate, et gentis decore forent, in iis omnibus benignitatem et clementiam nostram regiam fideles status et ordines regni experturi sunt. ")

    The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power 1841

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