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Huiusmodi nauim ad equi caudam ligant, et hominem, qui equum regat, pariter natare faciunt, vel habent aliquando duos remos, cum quibus remigant.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Huiusmodi nauim ad equi caudam ligant, et hominem, qui equum regat, pariter natare faciunt, vel habent aliquando duos remos, cum quibus remigant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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His reply was witty -- too witty to be apt, "Piscem natare doces," he said.
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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Tis that saves many a mans life; and the Romans thought it so necessary, that they rankd it with letters; and it was the common phrase to mark one ill-educated, and good for nothing, that he had neither learnt to read nor to swim: Nec literas didicit nec natare.
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The dare-devil wildness and the cool quietude that were so intimately and intricately mingled in his natare could alone have prompted and projected such a thought and such an action as suggested themselves to him now; in the moment of his direst extremity, of his utter hopelessness, of his most imminent peril, he went -- to take a last look at his mistress!
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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The true and proper end of Schooling is to teach and Exercise Children and Youths in the Grounds of all Learning and Virtues, so far as either their capacitie in that age will suffer them to com, or is requisite to apprehend the principles of useful matters, by which they may bee made able to exercise themselvs in everie good Employment afterwards by themselvs, and as the Proverb is, _sine Cortice natare_.
The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650) John Dury 1638
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_Urinator_, 5. etiam natare potest sub aquâ, ut Piscis.
The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631
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See the natare and objcfts of BiUt for this poipole,
An Historical Treatise of a Suit in Equity: In which is Attempted a Scientific Deduction of the ... 1796
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Ixiii. 19 r. ftrongefl tie of natare, Lanf. xxxviii.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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The rery natare of Treaties is such, tnat we must exnecc sttpnlation ob hath sides; and if tme side only is viewed many objec - tions will appear.
The Debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States 1789
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