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est et vis et norma
So that we must never rebel against use; quem penes arbitrium est, et vis et norma loquendi.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

esset etiamsi verum esset non
[Pg 408] quod inane esset, etiamsi verum esset, non verum esse.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

et eam vituperarent et nunquam
parentibus esset odiosa et eam vituperarent, et nunquam illam arborem videre vellent, a simili locum in quo Deus, quem diligere debemus, suspensus fuit, odio habere debeamus et nunquam deberemus ejus presenciam affectare.’
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville

est esse vel effici nec
Et notandum, quando in hoc solio Maiestatis diebus solennibus residet Imperator, subsidere ad pedes eius notarios quatuor, qui omne quod Dominus loquitur, singuli ponunt in scriptis: nam quodcunque tunc ex ore illius egreditur, necesse est esse, vel effici, nec valet item ipse verbum suum mutare, nec reuocare, nisi magno consilio conuocato.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt


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