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In utramque partem dignissimum medicamentum, si recte utentur, secus venenum.

Anatomy of Melancholy

I thought I had a brilliant way to introduce the concept of writing in utramque partem arguing both sides of an issue, but, alas, the class proved otherwise.

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Omni fortuna valentior ipse animus, in utramque partem res suas ducit, beataeque ac miserae vitae sibi causa est.

Anatomy of Melancholy

This disputatio in utramque partem — this debate for and against — is certainly calculated to drive us into accepting the juste milieu morality of Aristotle; a conclusion that is also supported by the following consideration.

On Human Nature

Inde Nigritarum ampla est regio, ad utramque Nigri amnis ripam: longitudo ejus porrigitur à Nilo et Meroe insula, usque ad Nigri ostia et Oceanum.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

In fact, the sources of Montaigne's scepticism are much wider: his child readings of Ovid's Metamorphosis, the in utramque partem academic debate he practised at the Collège de Guyenne (a pro and contra discussion inherited from Aristotle and Cicero) and the humanist philosophy of action, shaped his mind early on.

Michel de Montaigne

[340] Speaking of both: "Et tamen nos utramque suscipimus, nequaquam hujus temporis consuetudinem, sed veterum Scriptorum authoritatem sequentes, qui plerumque utriusque utuntur testimoniis, non ut interdum de apocryphis facere solent," etc.

The Sermons of John Owen

* Et tamen nos utramque suscipimus, nequaquam hujus temporis consuetudinem, sed veterum Scriptorum authoritatem sequentes, qui plerumque utriusque utuntur testimoniis, non ut interdum de apocryphis facere solent: [5666] 1

The Sermons of John Owen

Itaque tempus ad utramque rem decernitur, sed maturius ad pecuniam distribuendam.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino

Compare Caesar _BC_ III 70 2 'ita paruae res magnum in utramque partem _momentum_ habuerunt', Livy I 47 6, Hor _Ep_ I

The Last Poems of Ovid