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"We are not sure that we comprehend him," say the centuries as they pass, "but of this we are sure: _Simil ne maggior uom non nacque mai_."
Emerson and Other Essays John Jay Chapman 1897
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Several of these glasses, w hich have a very thin texture, and are consefiueiitly v. f\ light, it they arc examined internally, usually abound with cracks, sonieiinusextendinp, - uom one end to the other of the pieces; and when struck in the dip ciion of these ihey arc easily split.
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On the banks of a little river so shrunken by the suns of summer that it seems fast passing into a tradition, but swollen by the autumnal rains with an Italian suddenness of passion till the massy bridge shudders under the impatient heap of waters behind it, stands a city which, in its period of bloom not so large as Boston, may well rank next to Athens in the history which teaches _come l 'uom s' eterna_.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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"O immaginativa, che ne rube tal volta sì di fuor, ch 'uom non s'accorge perchè d'intorno suonin mille tube; chi move te, se il senso non ti porge?
Art Clive Bell 1922
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The people of Verona, when they saw him on the streets, used to say, "_Eccovi l 'uom ch' è stato all 'Inferno_, See, there is the man that was in
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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"The inscriptions," says he, "on the road uom Suez to Mount Sinai, do not answer the idea formed of them.
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