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  • There are a whole host of little lessons one learns when working in First Amendment law: What is vulgar to one person might be poetic to another, occasional offense is a small price to pay for a plura ...

    Greg Lukianoff: Porno Teaches Maryland a Valuable Lesson 2009

  • There are a whole host of little lessons one learns when working in First Amendment law: What is vulgar to one person might be poetic to another, occasional offense is a small price to pay for a plura ...

    Greg Lukianoff: Porno Teaches Maryland a Valuable Lesson 2009

  • I just emailed her: "Publius Quinctilius Varus, where are my eagles?" with a note that the 2000th anniversary of the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest is coming up this September. thanks to Jeff at Quid plura? for the heads-up.

    The white tree — late night version. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Bacchanalia, plura virorum inter sese quam fœminarum stupra.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • O si nunc morerer, inquit, quanta et qualia mihi imperfecta manerent: sed si mensibus decem vel octo super vixero, omnia redigam ad libellum, ab omni debito creditoque me explicabo; praetereunt interim menses decem, et octo, et cum illis anni, et adhuc restant plura quam prius; quid igitur speras.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Avarus vir inferno est similis, &c. modum non habet, hoc egentior quo plura habet.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Dum infinita medicamenta miscent, laudem sibi comparare student, et in hoc studio alter alterum superare conatur, dum quisque quo plura miscuerit, eo se doctiorem putet, inde fit ut suam prodant inscitiam, dum ostentant peritiam, et se ridiculos exhibeant, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Magna religione quaeritur quae possit adultoria plura numerare Minut.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quid aliud ambitiosus sibi parat quam ut probra ejus pateant? nemo vivens qui non habet in vita plura vitoperatione quam laude digna; his malis non melius occurritur, quam si bene latueris.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et si multum acceperit, injuriam putat plura non accepisse; non agit pro tribunatu gratias, sed queritur quod non sit ad praeturam perductus; neque haec grata, si desit consulatus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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