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can express nothing else
If pleasure is bound up with the mere apprehension ( apprehensio ) of the form of an object of intuition, without reference to a concept for a definite cognition, then the representation is thereby not referred to the Object, but simply to the subject; and the pleasure can express nothing else than its harmony with the cognitive faculties which come 32 into play in the reflective Judgement, and so far as they are in play; and hence can only express a subjective formal purposiveness of the Object.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

composed eversa non evertenda
[3442] Or if there be any such party, at whose presence the patient is not well pleased, he must be removed: gentle speeches, and fair means, must first be tried; no harsh language used, or uncomfortable words; and not expel, as some do, one madness with another; he that so doth, is madder than the patient himself: all things must be quietly composed; eversa non evertenda, sed erigenda , things down must not be dejected, but reared, as Crato counselleth;
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

cognitis et nuper effossis
—De instrumentis chirurgicis veteribus cognitis et nuper effossis.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

caritatis ejus nullus est
ac per hoc filius caritatis ejus nullus est alius quam qui de ejus substantia est genitus.’
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

caesis exercitibus nullumque ei
A Persis enim multa et gravia perpessus, saepe captis, oppidis, obsessis urbibus, caesis exercitibus, nullumque ei contra Saporem prosperum praelium fuit, nisi quod apud Singaram, &c.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

cyberespace est notre espace
Le cyberespace est notre espace virtuel, à savoir l'espace de l'information numérique (constitué de bits, et non d'atomes).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

ceremony entails no ethical
But the ceremony entails no ethical obligations, such as apply to the real married woman.
— from Women of India by Otto Rothfield

compulsory Elections national elections
none Other political or pressure groups: various Arab nationalist movements and the Arab Socialist Resurrection (Ba'th) party with almost negligible memberships may be functioning clandestinely, as well as some Islamic elements Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory Elections: national elections are indirect through a hierarchy of peoples' committees Executive branch: revolutionary leader, chairman of the General People's Committee (premier), General People's Committee (cabinet) Legislative branch: unicameral General People's Congress Judicial branch:
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

call Ens necessarium et
Hence, as being, real and necessary being, is God, whom the theologians call Ens necessarium et reale , God, in affirming the ideal formula, intuitively affirms himself, and we really apprehend him, not as he is in himself, in his essence, indeed, but as being, the ideal or the intelligible, that is, as facing our intelligence; or, in other words, we apprehend him as the subject of the judgment, Ens creat existentias , or as the subject of the predicate existences, united and distinguished by his creative act, the only real, as the only possible, copula.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

conceive emotions not entirely
Cannot you conceive emotions not entirely due to one’s physical condition?
— from Mrs. Craddock by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

containing eighteen notes each
" This Minute was dated the end of January, 1837; and in the course of the same year the Code appeared, headed by an Introductory Report in the shape of a letter to the Governor-General, and followed by an Appendix containing eighteen notes, each in itself an essay.
— from Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 by George Otto Trevelyan

central Europe New England
Western and central Europe, New England and Middle Atlantic States.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Cuban engineer now employed
One of my companions in the train was a Cuban engineer, now employed upon the line; a refugee, I conjectured, belonging to the beaten party in the late rebellion, from the bitterness with which he spoke of the Spanish administration.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

Children etc New Edition
By G. MANVILLE FENN, Author of 'Eli's Children,' etc. New Edition.
— from The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells


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