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présent est de développer
Le mieux à faire dès à présent est de développer les normes de base du professionnalisme, et d'insister sur la nécessité impérative de mentionner pour toute oeuvre citée au minimum sa provenance et ses auteurs.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

por ella decidido determined
La dije que erais el hombre I told her you were the man por su padre destinado chosen for her by her father, para suyo; os he pintado and I have painted you rather muerto por ella de amor, as dying for her love, desesperado por ella, desperate for her, y por ella perseguido, because of her, in a lather, por ella decidido determined to risk honour a perder vida y honor.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

patente el deseo de
En esa misma jactancia de producción ganadera y agrícola, de fortuna fácil, de hartura para los hombres del mundo, está patente el deseo de ser útil.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

presque entierement degagee des
Eccles A. D. 370, No. 129-132, A. D. 376, No. 3, 4.) ——Comme il s'etait prescrit pour regle de ne point se meler de disputes de religion, son histoire est presque entierement degagee des affaires ecclesiastiques.
— 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

Philippe Egalite Duc d
ORLEANS, Philippe ( Egalite ), Duc d', Duke de Chartres ( till 1785 ), waits on Dauphin, Father, with Louis XV., not Admiral, wealth, debauchery, Palais-Royal buildings, in Notables ( Duke d'Orleans now ), looks of, Bed-of-Justice, 1787, arrested, liberated, in States-General Procession, joins Third Estate, his party, in Constituent Assembly, Fifth October and, shunned in England, Mirabeau, cash deficiency, use of, in Revolution, accused by Royalists, at Court, insulted, in National Convention, decline of, in Convention, vote on King's trial, at King's execution, arrested, imprisoned, condemned, and executed.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Por el dedo de
tus sienes de oliva, De la paz el arcángel divino Que en el cielo tu eterno destino Por el dedo de Dios se escribió.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Potentior est Deo diabolus
Potentior est Deo diabolus et mundi princeps, et in multitudine hominum sita est majestas.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

poste et demi de
Book of French post-roads, page 36. edition of 1762.) de Montreuil a Nampont- poste et demi de Nampont a Bernay —- poste de Bernay a Nouvion —- poste de Nouvion a Abbeville poste —but the carders and spinners were all gone to bed.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

pileta está dotada de
Cada pileta está dotada de refrigerantes, unidos por un sistema completo de cañerías, a la máquina refrigeradora, con el objeto de dominar oportunamente las altas temperaturas que alcanzan en ese clima los mostos en fermentación, asegurando de tal manera la marcha normal del proceso, y, por consiguiente, la calidad de los vinos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

put explanations demanded doubts
So many questions were put, explanations demanded, doubts suggested, and advices thrown out to Forester that it was not until after a considerable lapse of time he was enabled to commence his description of the unknown traveller, nor even then was he suffered to proceed without interruption, a demand being made by MacDonough that the absent individual was entitled to counsel, who should look after his interests, and, if necessary, cross-examine the evidence.
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever

patre et domino domino
decimo septimo, mane videlicet, post missam sub honore beatæ Mariæ Virginis gloriosæ in dicta Gerundensi ecclesia solemniter celebratam, dictis reverendo in Christo patre et domino domino Dalmacio episcopo, et honorabilibus viris capitulo dictæ ecclesiæ Gerundensis, hac de causa ad trinum tactum cimbali, ut moris est, de mandato dicti domini episcopi apud domos prædictas Thesaurariæ dictæ ecclesiæ Gerundensis simul convocatis et congregatis: ubi convenerunt, et fuerunt præsentes dictus reverendos dominus Dalmacius episcopus, et honorabiles viri Dalmacius de Raseto, decretorum doctor, archidiaconus de Silva, Arnaldus de Gurbo, Joannes de Pontonibus, canonici, Guillermus de Burgarolis, sacrista secundas, Joannes de Boscho, Thesaurarius, Joannes Gabriel Pavia, Petrus de Boscho, Guillermus Marinerii, Petrus Sala, Bacallarii in decretis, Franciscus Mathei et Bartholomeus Vives licentiatus in decretis, presbiteri capitulares et de capitulo ante dicto, ipsi reverendus dominus episcopus et honorabiles viri et capitulum prænotati, sicut præmititur capitulariter convocati et congregati, et capitulum dictæ ecclesiæ Gerundensis facientes, representantes, et more solito celebrantes, visis et recognitis per eosdem, ut dixerunt, prædictorum artificum et lapiscidarum depositionibus ante dictis in unum concordes deliberaverunt, sub Navi una prossequi magnum opus antiquum Gerundensis ecclesiæ , prælibatis rationibus quæ sequuntur: tum quia ex dictis præmissorum artificum clare constat, quod si opus trium navium supradictum opere continuetur jam cœpto, expedit omnino quod opus expeditum supra chorum usque ad capitellos ex ejus deformitate penitus diruatur et de novo juxta mensuras cœpti capitis reformetur: tum quia constat ex dictis ipsorum clare, eorum uno dempto, nemine discrepante, quod hujusmodi opus magnum sub navi una jam cœptum est firmum, stabile et securum si prosequatur tali modo et ordine, ut est cœptum, et quod terræmotus, tonitrua nec turbinem ventorum timebit: tum quia ex opinione multorum artificum prædictorum constat, dictum opus navis unius fore solemnius, notabilius et proportionabilius capiti dictæ ecclesiæ jam incepto, quam sit opus trium navium supradictum: tum quia etiam multo majori claritate fulgebit quod est lætius et jucundum: tum quia vitabuntur expensæ, nam ad prosequendum alterum operum prædictorum modo quo stare videntur opus navis unius multo minori prætio, quam opus trium navium, et in breviori tempore poterit consumari.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

pena e dovria dir
E non pur una volta, questo spazzo girando, si rinfresca nostra pena: io dico pena, e dovria dir sollazzo, che' quella voglia a li alberi ci mena che meno` Cristo lieto a dire 'Eli`', quando ne libero` con la sua vena>>.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

progrez et decadence de
f. [1016] “L’Histoire de la naissance, progrez et decadence de l’hérésie de ce siècle,” l. 2, ch. 9 (Rouen, 1648), p. 166: “On éscrit, qu’éstant sur le poinct de rendre l’âme, l’an 1560, sa mère,” etc.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

præferenda est debita Deo
Tunc solum modo parere non debes, cum aliquid Divinæ Legi contrarium imperatur: tunc enim præferenda est debita Deo obedientia; quin tamen vel arma capere adversus Principes, vel in seditionem abire liceat.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

punishment eagerly dictated David
The man was in the depths of terror, and thinking perhaps to lighten his own punishment, eagerly dictated David's words to the Governor.
— from Under the Chinese Dragon: A Tale of Mongolia by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

president ever deprecating delays
The escort that was to accompany him was not ready, and the punctual president, ever deprecating delays, and fearing some other question of etiquette was to be settled, left the laggards to overtake him on the road.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

present epoch doubtless did
These innovations, which belong presumably to the end of the preceding or beginning of the present epoch, doubtless did not originate in party efforts any more than did the Servian military reform; but they gave a material impulse to the democratic party, in so far as those who bore civic burdens necessarily claimed and eventually obtained equalization of civic rights.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

por el desarrollo de
Cuando Güemes se puso al frente de la provincia de su nacimiento, ya robustecida por la fuerza moral de sus triunfos en Tucumán y Salta, por el desarrollo de las fuerzas populares que ocho años de revolución habían puesto en acción, contó además en las cuatro primeras campañas con el apoyo de un ejército que cubría su retaguardia
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López


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