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prima penſaua me voleſſe dare
de nui et Quando voleua bere extendeua lo pugnio dela mano sini ſtra verſo dime prima penſaua me voleſſe dare vn pognio et
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

premier puis M Viot derrière
J’étais perdu.... Le principal entra le premier, puis M. Viot derrière lui, puis enfin un grand vieux boutonné jusqu’au menton dans une longue redingote, et cravaté d’un col de crin haut de quatre doigts.
— from Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) by Alphonse Daudet

Primary party members vote directly
The essential difference between this caucus or primary and the Direct Primary is this: in the Direct Primary, party members vote directly for the party's candidates at the forthcoming election; in the caucus or primary, on the other hand, party members do not vote directly for the more important of these candidates, but instead vote for delegates to a convention.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

punietur propter merita vel demerita
Præterea, vicinius se habent ad animam potentiæ sensitivæ, quam corpus: sed corpus præmiabitur vel punietur propter merita vel demerita animæ: ergo et omnes sensus præmiabuntur in beatis, et punientur in malis, secundum delectationem et dolorem vel tristitiam, quae in operatione sensus consistunt.—S. Thom., Suppl., q. 82, art.
— from The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux

praeeunt primitiae Magi Vatum dicta
En vestrae praeeunt primitiae Magi: Vatum dicta patent: exitialibus Errorum tenebris obsita gens diu, Miro lumine spargitur.
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman


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