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  • * Tantos invidus habet poena justa tortores, quantos invidiosus habuerit laudatores.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • [185] "Quis facile potest, quale sit hoc malum, verbis exprimere, quo invidus odio hominis persequitur divinum munus in homine?"

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • * Quis facile potest, quale sit hoc malum, verbis exprimere, quo invidus odio hominis persequitur divinum munus in homine?

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • [182] "Tantos invidus habet poena justa tortores, quantos invidiosus habuerit laudatores."

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • He feared the cold; he longed to get back to his sons, and he was greatly troubled by the continued ill-behaviour of one of the servants he had brought with him -- "maledicus, invidus, avarissimus, Dei contemptor;" but he found his patient very loth to let him depart.

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • Omnis ut hifloriae per ludum conlbnet ordo Notitias, ducam voces: licet invidus adfit.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • And now whether _invidus homo hoc fecit_; or whether my matter must be an appendix to my Lord of Essex suit; or whether her Majesty, pretending to prove my ability, meaneth but to take advantage of some errors which, like enough, at one time or other I may commit; or what is it? but her Majesty is not ready to despatch it.

    Bacon John Morley 1852

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