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  • The children's frivolity (levitas, curiositas) and the popular belief in their worthiness seem to exist in direct contrast to other adults 'ability to see the truth and reason (sanioris mentis).

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • In Magnificat, the commentary from Josef Pieper discusses curiositas in reference to custody of the eyes.

    Archive 2006-09-24 Terry Nelson 2006

  • In Magnificat, the commentary from Josef Pieper discusses curiositas in reference to custody of the eyes.

    Vanitas Terry Nelson 2006

  • Yet, the violent critique of the novus cantandi modus by Jacobus of Liège (ca. 1330) as cantandi lascivia curiositas, in which “the words are lost, the harmony of consonances is diminished, the value of the notes is changed, perfection is brought low, imperfec - tion is exalted, and measure is confounded” (Strunk, p. 190), furnishes eloquent proof that the new art was considerably more than a new notation.

    MUSICAL GENIUS EDWARD E. LOWINSKY 1968

  • Sed dum hæc tacitus mecum revolvo, occurrit mihi quod in Bibliotheca studiosi sæcularium litterarum puer quondam, ut se ætatis illius curiositas habet, prætereundo legissem.

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • Quia revera curiositas apparatumn, nimietas expensarum, varietates spectaculorum, tractatus exigerent merito speciales. "—

    London and the Kingdom - Volume I

  • Sittingbull: "Soif du savoir = curiositas, c'est repris de saint Augustin." septembre 15, 2008 à 15: 28 sil: "Je préfère oh-la-la-la-la - largement l'operati on" born to be ... "septembre 15, 2008 à 15: 17

    ExtremeCentre.org 2008

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