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dileximus ut responderet ingenue possetne
Pertentavimus etiam familiariter aliquando Tobiam Matthaeum, qui nunc in concionibus dominatur, quem propter bonas artes et virtutum semina dileximus, ut responderet ingenue, possetne qui Patres assiduus lectitaret, istarum esse partium, quas ille suaserat.
— from Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund, Saint

de una revolución iniciada por
libertad mal entendida), conducidos, en fin, los pueblos por senderos extraños—pero análogos a tan funestos principios—a una espantosa anarquía (mal el más digno de temerse en el curso de una revolución iniciada por meditados planes, sin cálculo en sus progresos y sin una prudente previsión en sus fines), ¿qué dique más poderoso podía oponerse a este torrente de males políticos que amenazaban absorber la patria y sepultarla en sus ríos que la instalación de un gobierno que salvase la unidad de las provincias, conciliase su voluntad
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

detachment under Ribault in person
Of the fate of the main detachment, under Ribault in person, we have the following account, as related by the same apologist, the chaplain De Solis: "On the next day following the return of the Adelantado at St. Augustine, the same Indians who came before returned, and said that 'a great many more Christians were at the same part of the river as the others had been.'
— from The Spaniards in Florida Comprising the Notable Settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565 by George R. (George Rainsford) Fairbanks

distincta ubi regnorum in præcipuâ
CHRONOLOGIA QUÆDAM PROPHETICA , non tam annorum quàm regnorum intervallis distincta, ubi regnorum in præcipuâ orbis terrarum parte,
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 5 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

did under Regnault in Paris
Impressed by the value of the experimental work which he did under Regnault in Paris, Prof. Thomson gave himself no rest until he secured a place in which the demonstrations of the lecture-room could be supplemented by qualitative and quantitative work in the laboratory.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian


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