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  • Sylva dolet lapsis — — — they looked like cropped trees.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Superiore autem anno 1591. quædam nauis Germanica, cupro onusta, portum Islandiæ Vopnafiord 14. dies circiter in Nouembri occupauit, quibus lapsis inde foeliciter soluit Quare cum glacies Islandiæ, nec perpetuò, neque octo mensibus adhæreat, Munsterus & Frisius manifestè falluntur.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Superiore autem anno 1591. qu鎑am nauis Germanica, cupro onusta, portum Islandi� Vopnafiord 14. dies circiter in Nouembri occupauit, quibus lapsis inde foeliciter soluit Quare cum glacies Islandi�, nec perpetu�, neque octo mensibus adh鎟eat, Munsterus & Frisius manifest� falluntur.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • = A similar sentiment at _EP_ II ix 11-14 (to king Cotys) 'regia, crede mihi, res est succurrere lapsis

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _EP_ II ii 47 'nunc tua pro _lassis_ nitatur gratia _rebus'_, and _EP_ II iii 93' respicis antiquum _lassis_ in _rebus_ amicum '; in each of these passages _lapsis_ is found as a variant for _lassis_.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • St. Cyprian, explicitly setting forth the communion of merits (De lapsis, xvii); of St. Hilary, giving the Eucharistic Communion as a means and symbol of the communion of saints (in Ps. lxiv, 14), we come to the teaching of Ambrose and St. Augustine.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Early Church to take the Blessed Sacrament to those who were absent from Divine service, as well as to present the Chalice to the laity during the celebration of the Sacred Mysteries (cf, Cyprian, De lapsis, nn. 17, 25), and this practice was observed until Communion under both kinds was discontinued.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • Cyprian found it necessary to send his book "De lapsis" to Rome, so that the question of the lapsed was already prominent, but Ep. lv is the earliest in which the "Novatian heresy" as such is argued against.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • We are particularly well-informed about the events in Africa and in Rome by the correspondence of St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, and by his treatises, "De catholicae ecclesiae unitate" and "De lapsis"

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Cornelius, had expressed his opinions in writing: "Illi enim pleni spiritu Domini et in glorioso martyrio constituti dandam esse lapsis pacem censuerunt et poenitentia acta fructum communicationis et pacis negandum non esse litteris suis signaverunt."

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

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