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  • “Scito dominum,” said Cato, “pro totâ familiâ rem divinam facere”: “No priest at a birth, no priest at a marriage, no priest at a death,” is the aspiration of the present Rationalistic School.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Alter excitat hominem ad divinam pulchritudinem lustrandam, cujus causa philosophiae studia et justitiae,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Theologiam accedunt, non ut rem divinam, sed ut suam facient; non ad Ecclesiae bonum promovendum, sed expilandum; quaerentes, quod

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Adeunt templum ut rem divinam audiant, ut ipsae simulant, sed vel ut monachum fratrem, vel adulterum lingua, oculis, ad libidinem provoceat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Agreste olus anus vendebat, et rogo inquam, mater, nunquid scis ubi ego habitem? delectata illa urbanitate tam stulta, et quid nesciam inquit? consurrexitque et cepit me praecedere; divinam ego putabam, &c. nudas video meretrices et in lupanar me adductum, sero execrutus aniculae insidias.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Solaris: ut divinam aspicias pulchritudinem, demitte materiam, demitte sensum, et Deum qualis sit videbis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 60: Annales Marbacenses, pp. 82 — 83: Et sicut ad tales novitates sepe et de facili credula turba sumus, multi quidem arbitrati sunt hec non de levitate mentis, sed per divinam inspirationem fieri et ex quadam pietate; unde et subveniebant eis in expensis, victum et necessaria ministrantes.

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

  • Immanitati autem consentaneum est opponere eam, quae supra humanitatem est, heroicam sive divinam virtutem; and a little after, Nam ut ferae neque vitium neque virtus est, swic neque Dei: sed hic quidem status altius quiddam virtute est, ille aluid quiddam a vitio.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • * Annon video, (h.e. vivo,) post videntem me, i.e., post visionem divinam, vel post visionem videntis me: [924] 1

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Firmiter sacris Scripturis ideo credimus quod divinam inspirationem intus accepimus; "--" I have often thought with myself whence the Scripture itself is so persuasive, from whence it doth so powerfully influence the minds of its hearers, that it inclines or leads them not only to receive an opinion, but surely to believe.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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