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  • And to them we may well say with Tertullian, (38) _Iniquam exercetis dominationem si ideo negatis licere quia vultis, non quia debuit non licere_ — You exercise an unjust dominion, if, therefore, you deny anything to be free, because you will so, not because it ought not to be free.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • Ego cum illis sentio qui licere putant a divite clam accipere, qui tenetur pauperi subvenire.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Consult St. Augustine, and he will tell you that in his time the marriages of believers with unbelievers were not considered illicit, because no gospel text had condemned them: “Quæ matrimonia cum in fidelibus, nostris temporibus, jam non putantur esse peccata; quoniam in Novo Testamento nihil inde preceptum est, et ideo aut licere creditum est, aut velut dubium derelictum.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Lex Homicida in se insepultus abjiciatur contradicitur; Eo quod afferre sibi manus coactus sit assiduis malis: summam infelicitatem suam in hoc removit, quod existimabat licere misero mori.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ea quorundam est inscitia, ut quoties loqui, toties mordere licere sibi putent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • De quarta Hyberniæ Insula, quæ in lacu quòdam satis vasto fluitet: cuius gramina, quibusuis morbis præssentissimum remedium existant: Insula verò ripam lacus statis temporibus accedat, idque vt plurimum, diebus Dominicis, vt tum quiuis facilè eam veluti nauim quandam, ingrediatur: id quod tamen pluribus simul, per fatum licere negat.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • C鎠are concessarum illis licere ex illarum conspectione perspicuum esse potest.

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

  • De quarta Hyberni� Insula, qu� in lacu qu騞am satis vasto fluitet: cuius gramina, quibusuis morbis pr鎠sentissimum remedium existant: Insula ver� ripam lacus statis temporibus accedat, idque vt plurimum, diebus Dominicis, vt tum quiuis facil� eam veluti nauim quandam, ingrediatur: id quod tamen pluribus simul, per fatum licere negat.

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

  • _Tr_ II 381-82 '_omne genus scripti_ grauitate tragoedia uincit:/haec quoque materiam semper amoris habet' and _Tr_ II 517-18 'an _genus hoc scripti_ faciunt sua pulpita [' stage '] tutum,/quodque licet, mimis scaena licere dedit?'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Adeo de autoritate Iuris nostra pendet autoritas et reuera maius imperio est submittere legibus prin [-] cipatum & oraculo presentis edicti quod nobis licere non pa - timur alijs indicamus.

    A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

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