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  • For it was an attempt to supersede the ancient religious life of that State by _externa superstitio, prava religio_ -- _prava_, because _deorum numen praetenditur sceleribus_; and hence, as Livy expresses it in the admirable speech put into the mouth of the consul, the Roman gods themselves felt their _numen_ to be contaminated. [

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • Too much indulgence causeth the like, [2128] inepta patris lenitas et facilitas prava, when as

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ampak samo zato, ker ga ne razumete to ne pomeni, da ni prava, in zakon karme, je en del ID, en del evolucije.

    ideonexus.com »2007» februar 2007

  • One and told of the Compassionate, called up before the triad of precoxious scaremakers (scoretaking: Spegulo ne helpas al mal-bellulo, Mi Kredas ke vi estas prava, Via dote la vizago rispondas fraulino) the now to ushere mythical habiliments of Our Farfar and Arthor of our doyne.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Among the things the “just and steady-purposed man” does not fear, according to Horace, are the south wind (“Auster” ) and “a mob of citizens clamoring for injustice” (“civium ardor prava iubentium”).

    America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

  • Multi de diis prava sentiunt, id enim vitioso more effici solet; omnes tamen esse vim et naturam divinam arbitrantur ....

    The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Ernest Naville

  • Itaque primum commotus insolita re mirari ejus consilium et quasi per amicitiam monere, ne tam prava inciperet neu super fortunam animum gereret; non omnia omnibus cupiunda esse; debere illi res suas satis placere; postremo caveret id petere a populo Romano, quod illi jure negaretur.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • "_Hoc circa templum sit jus mercatoribus æqum, pondera ne vergant nec sit conventio prava. _"

    The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull

  • Christianity was progressing in spite of contempt for its adherents, philosophic repudiation of the doctrines of the _superstitio prava_, and official persecution unknown in British India at least.

    New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

  • You are right | _Vi estas prava_ | vee eh'stahss pra'vah

    Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation William W. Mann

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