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Una tarde, cogi mi paracaidas y diej: "Entre una estrella y dos golondrinas."
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Una tarde, cogi mi paracaidas y diej: "Entre una estrella y dos golondrinas."
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Duci volunt, non cogi: though she be as arrant a scold as Xanthippe, as cruel as Medea, as clamorous as Hecuba, as lustful as Messalina, by such means (if at all) she may be reformed.
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Rara quidem dea tu es O chastitas in his terris, nec facile perfecta, rarius perpetua, cogi nonnunquam potest, ob naturae defectum, vel si disciplina pervaserit, censura compresserit.
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Amor cogi non potest, love cannot be compelled, they must affect as they may: [5866] Fatum est in partibus illis quas sinus abscondit, as the saying is, marriage and hanging goes by destiny, matches are made in heaven.
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Camerarius, &c. The parties by whom the devil deals, may be reduced to these two, such as command him in show at least, as conjurors, and magicians, whose detestable and horrid mysteries are contained in their book called [1254] Arbatell; daemonis enim advocati praesto sunt, seque exorcismis et conjurationibus quasi cogi patiuntur, ut miserum magorum genus, in impietate detineant.
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Vega, cogi debent, l. 5.c. 14, upon some mulct, if they perform it not, quod ex officio incumbat, loss of credit or disgrace, such as our public
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It was logically absurd to think of the soul, a res cogi - tans, as being prone to sickness in the manner of the body; this could only be done metaphorically in the manner in which crime, sin, heresy had long been called diseases of the soul.
HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968
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But let us hope and pray, remembering this of Saint Gregory, _Vult Deus rogari, vult cogi, vult quâdam importunitate vinci_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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[Sidenote: A wise cogi - tacion.] saunt and fruictfull: yet so I do not trust time, as that like pleasure should alwaies remaine, or that fruictes should alwaies of like sorte abounde.
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