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"I take it," he said, "that invidi-uh, units swap around to form, uh, entities whose natural endowment is optimum for whatever is to be done?"
The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972
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You had nobles willing to relinquish their invidi - ous privileges, and clergy ready to afiifl the finances of their country, and a king (with a difintereftednefs that has been but ill re - warded) in the very act of circumfcribing his authority for the happinefs of his people.
A new friend on an old subject Hervey, Frederic 1791
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I was furprifed and mortified to fee the venerable, the facred memory of Swift moft unfairly and moft invidi - oufly attacked, in the philological in - quiries of Mr. Harris; a gentleman whom I have long been accuftomed as highly to efteem for the benevolent ftrain of his writings, as for his learn -
The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 1785
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Fa£b nam - que perfecucio, uc incenfx urbis invidi»
Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692
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_virtutem incolumen odimus, sublatam ex oculis quærimus invidi_.
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[11] "Judicavique te bello violari, contra cujus honorem, populi Romani beneficio concessum, inimici atque invidi niterentur.
Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856
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9, Si ob invidi luftam xger es corpore, «Iter Job efto,
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790
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