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  • As belas, as feras, e as antas « 8:47 am on September 22, 2009 | # | Reply

    MAYBE THIS IS WHERE PETA GOT THE IDEA » Sociological Images 2008

  • Insignis venatorum stultitia, et supervacania cura eorum, qui dum nimium venationi insistunt, ipsi abjecta omni humanitate in feras degenerant, ut Acteon, &c. 1873.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Boni venatoris ([148] one holds) plures feras capere, non omnes; he is a good huntsman can catch some, not all: I have done my endeavour.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Iniquum petas ut aequum feras is a good rule, where a man hath strength of favor: but otherwise, a man were better rise in his suit; for he, that would have ventured at first to have lost the suitor, will not in the conclusion lose both the suitor, and his own former favor.

    The Essays 2007

  • Non majorem voluptatem animo capiunt, quam qui feras insectantur, aut missis canibus, comprehendunt, quum retia trahentes, squamosas pecudes in ripas adducunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In secundis meditare, quo pacto feras adversa: or out of mature judgment to avoid the effect, or disannul the cause, as they do that are troubled with toothache, pull them quite out.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Est consolationis genus non leve, quod a necessitate fit; sive feras, sive non feras, ferendum est tamen.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Homo omne monstrum est, ille nam susperat feras, luposque et ursos pectore obscuro tegit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [3269] Nunc captare feras laqueo, nunc fallere visco,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ames parentem, si equum, aliter feras; praestes parentibus pietatem, amicis dilectionem.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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