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  • “Non est Deo difficile facere ut sapidus humor sit intra organum gustus, qui sensum illum intentionaliter afficere.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Extasis nihil est aliud quam gustus futurae beatitudinis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Estate of A.gustus Stanley, by J.A. Pickett, Ex. 500.00

    The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889 Various

  • We have read somewhere of a justice of peace, who, on being nominated in the commission, wrote a letter to a bookseller for the statutes respecting his official duty, in the following orthography, —‘Please send the ax relating to a gustus pease.

    Chapter VI 1917

  • The circumstances of the stage and of the lives of actors have greatly changed since the generation went out to which such men as Junius Booth and A.gustus A. A.dams belonged.

    Shadows of the Stage William Winter 1876

  • L.A. Florus, who flourished during the reign of Trajan, has left a series of sketches of the different wars from the days of Romulus to those of A.gustus.

    The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

  • Broughton and of A. Musselboro, -- the Christian name of Mr Musselboro was A.gustus, -- were on one of those dirty posts, not joined together by any visible "and", so as to declare boldly that they were partners; but in close vicinity, -- showing at least that the two gentlemen would be found in apartments very near to each other.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Therefore, ‘inter homines, etc., gustus creat, etc.,’ does not express the English _meaning_, it only translates its _expression_.

    The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845

  • It was my activity and loyalty that was the manes, principally, of returnin 'the son of the gustus ratalorum of the county for the borough of Addleborough.

    The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

  • We have read somewhere of a justice of peace who, on being nominated in the commission, wrote a letter to a bookseller for the statutes respecting his official duty in the following orthography — ‘Please send the ax relating to a gustus pease.’

    Guy Mannering 1815

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