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  • Lorenzo pleads the authority of Aristotle in favor of noble blood; Poggio contests the passage quoted, and shows the superiority of the Latin word 'nobilitas'

    Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Ex. homicidio saepe orta nobilitas et strenua carnificina.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The [3650] Chinese observe the same customs, no man amongst them noble by birth; out of their philosophers and doctors they choose magistrates: their politic nobles are taken from such as be moraliter nobiles virtuous noble; nobilitas ut olim ab officio, non a natura, as in

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And it may be generally spoken of all, which [3671] Lemnius the physician said of his travel into England, the common people were silly, sullen, dogged clowns, sed mitior nobilitas, ad omne humanitatis officium paratissima, the gentlemen were courteous and civil.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cum in præcedentibus Imperator Indiæ dictus sit magnus, restat de illius magnificentia aliquid poni hoc loco: cuius vtique gloria, nobilitas, et potestas, dici non habetur minor, est tamen in aliquibus satis maior, quia omne æquale non est idem cum illo cui æquatur: itáque à finibus regni Bachariæ supradicti vbi contiguatur

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Prætereà, iuxta palatii ambitum, habetur grandis parci spaciamentum, diuersi generis arboribus repletum, fructus ferentibus varios, et nobis inuisos, et in parte media, aula super excelsum collem de tam mira et pulchra structura, vt eius nobilitas de facili ad præsens, non possit describi.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Sed et quod ibi nascatur vinum, non habent: aurum et argentum est ibi in copia immensa, quòd patet in regis Iauæ palatio, cuius palatij nobilitas non est facilè scribenda.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Pr鎡ere�, iuxta palatii ambitum, habetur grandis parci spaciamentum, diuersi generis arboribus repletum, fructus ferentibus varios, et nobis inuisos, et in parte media, aula super excelsum collem de tam mira et pulchra structura, vt eius nobilitas de facili ad pr鎠ens, non possit describi.

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

  • Cum in pr鎐edentibus Imperator Indi� dictus sit magnus, restat de illius magnificentia aliquid poni hoc loco: cuius vtique gloria, nobilitas, et potestas, dici non habetur minor, est tamen in aliquibus satis maior, quia omne 鎞uale non est idem cum illo cui

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

  • Sed et quod ibi nascatur vinum, non habent: aurum et argentum est ibi in copia immensa, qu騞 patet in regis Iau� palatio, cuius palatij nobilitas non est facil� scribenda.

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

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