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  • Ave, cuius conceptio, [Hail, whose conception] solemni plena gaudio, [full of great jubilation] coelestia terrestria [fills Heaven and Earth] nova replet laetitia. [with new joy]

    Josquin's Ave Maria 2009

  • Ita coelestia corpora pro mortalium beneficio religiones aedificant, et cum cessat influxus, cessat lex, [6653] &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ergo terrena calcanda, sitienda coelestia, (therefore I say) scorn this transitory state, look up to heaven, think not what others are, but what thou art: [3740] Qua parte locatus es in re: and what thou shalt be, what thou mayst be.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et ipse diligenter auscultauit, et subiunxit: Noueritis pro certo quòd coelestia non habebitis, nisi fueritis Christianus.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

  • Et ipse diligenter auscultauit, et subiunxit: Noueritis pro certo qu騞 coelestia non habebitis, nisi fueritis Christianus.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Hanc vitam, hunc motum, hanc rerum essentiam, animam mundi philosophi vocaverunt, putantes coelestia corpora, solem dico lunam et stellas ipsumque firmamentum hujus animae virtute moveri et regi, et aquas, et terram, et aerem hujus semine impraegnari.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Hanc vitam, hunc motum, hanc rerum essentiam, animam mundi philosophi vocaverunt, putantes coelestia corpora, solem dico lunam et stellas ipsumque firmamentum hujus animae virtute moveri et regi, et aquas, et terram, et aerem hujus semine impraegnari.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Ut mentes nostras ad coelestia desideria erigas, te rogamus audinos.

    The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

  • The invention of the ring-micrometer, just mentioned, which Boscovich describes in his memoir "De novo telescopii usu ad objecta coelestia determinanda"

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • It is conditions like these that give us the key to interpret phrases such as the following: "I would rather feel compunction than know how to define it" (Opto magis sentire compunctionem quam scire ejus definitionem) or "This is the highest wisdom: through contempt of the world to strive for the kingdom of heaven" (Ista est summa sapientia: per contemptum mundi tendere ad regna coelestia).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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