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Non che abbia intenzione di violare copyright come regola.
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Accidit hodie terribilis casus (saith [1898] S. Austin) hear a miserable accident; Cyrillus 'son this day in his drink, Matrem praegnantem nequiter oppressit, sororem violare voluit, patrem occidit fere, et duas alias sorores ad mortem vulneravit, would have violated his sister, killed his father, &c.
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Constitit et circumlatis in frequentiam oculis sanctissimum numen, quasi parum violasset inter altaria, coepit in ipso quo vindicabatur violare supplicio: hoc alterum damnatae incestum fuit, damnata est quia incesta erat, deiceta est quia damnata erat, repetenda est quia et incesta et damnata et deiceta est, dubitari potest quin usque eo deicienda sit, donec efficiatur propter quod deiecta est? patrocinium suum vocat pereundi infelicitatem.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Now the truth is that Busembaum teaches the opposite: Præceptum naturale negativum, prohibens rem intrinsece malum no licet violare ne quid ob metum mortis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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[1772] Ad peccandum quenquam obligare nequit, verum in re qualibet cui abest peccatum, qui semel illud praestitit, adimplere tenetur, vel etiam cum damno suo; [1773] neque sane licet, quamvis haereticis datum aut infidelibus, violare.
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"Porrum et cæpe nefas violare et frangere morsu" (Juvenal); we know how
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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Dei Filii, vel Evangelistas violare, vel Apostolos.
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850
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Cicero observes, that Nullum est Officium tam sanctum atque solemne, quod non avaritia: comminuere atque violare soleat.
Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712
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* Nullum est Officium tam sanctum atque solemne, quod non avaritia: comminuere atque violare soleat: [591] 1
Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712
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Justitiæ partes sunt non violare homines: Verecundiæ non offendere.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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