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numquam interiturae posteritatis patres virtuti
Haec in vos studia sunt eorum Anglorum, qui in provinciis transmarinis numquam interiturae posteritatis patres, virtuti et eruditioni adquirendae dant operam; omninoque secum statuerunt, a salute vestra promovenda non prius absistere, quam vel animas vestras Christo lucrifecerint, vel lanceis vestras confixi generose occubuerint.
— 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

not its price Pleasant View
The dark domain of pain and sin Surrenders—Love doth enter in, And peace is won, and lost is vice: Right reigns, and blood was not its price. Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., January, 1901 .
— from Poems by Mary Baker Eddy

narrowest in posterior part vomerine
—Short; rostrum short and stout; length of nasals approximately 15 mm (broken); bullae roundish, smooth and well-inflated; jugals dorso-ventrally narrow (3.1 mm) with strong transverse ridge; postorbital process of zygoma spiniform, slender and involving mostly jugal; incisive foramen narrow (3.8 x 1.7 mm) and narrowest in posterior part; vomerine sheath complete; posterior palatine foramina obsolete; mesopterygoid fossa extending forward as far as middle of second molars.
— from Speciation in the Brazilian Spiny Rats by João Moojen

night is passed playing Van
We are more; solitude does not attend me as before; the night is passed playing Van John for shells; and, what is not less important, I have just recovered from a severe illness, and am easily tired.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

NEW IDEALISM Prof P Vinogradoff
Prof. D. A. Bertholet (University of Basle) THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS Prof. Reinhold Seeberg (University of Berlin) REVELATION AND INSPIRATION Prof. Johannes Weiss (University of Heidelberg) PAUL AND JESUS Prof. Rudolf Eucken (University of Jena) CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEW IDEALISM Prof. P. Vinogradoff (Oxford University) ROMAN LAW IN MEDIÆVAL EUROPE Sir William Crookes, LL.D., F.R.S. DIAMONDS.
— from Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Ernest Arthur Gardner

numerous irregular polygonal pores very
Shell campanulate, spinulate, about as long as broad, with small and numerous irregular polygonal pores, very similar to the preceding species, but differing in the more slender form of {1153} the horn and the feet, bearing more numerous lateral branches (twelve to sixteen pairs on each foot).
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

NEW IDEALISM Prof P Vinogradoff
REVELATION AND INSPIRATION Prof. Johannes Weiss (University of Heidelberg) PAUL AND JESUS Prof. Rudolph Eucken (University of Jena) CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEW IDEALISM Prof. P. Vinogradoff (Oxford University) ROMAN LAW IN MEDIÆVAL EUROPE Sir William Crookes, O.M., F.R.S., LL.D. DIAMONDS.
— from Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by T. Eric (Thomas Eric) Peet


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