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sermones et restituere populo eam
Deus glorificatus est, et Scripturæ vere divinæ creditæ sunt, omnibus eandem et eisdem verbis et eisdem nominibus recitantibus ab initio usque ad finem, uti et præsentes gentes cognoscerent quoniam per inspirationem Dei interpretatæ sunt Scripturæ, et non esset mirabile Deum hoc in eis operatum: quando in ea captivitate populi quæ facta est a Nabuchodonosor, corruptis scripturis et post 70 annos Judæis descendentibus in regionem suam, et post deinde temporibus Artaxerxis Persarum regis, inspiravit Esdræ sacerdoti tribus Levi præteritorum prophetarum omnes rememorare sermones, et restituere populo eam legem quæ data est per Moysen.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

sine effigie rudi palo et
[812] Phrygia—quæ sine effigie, rudi palo, et informi specie prostant.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

sociales en raison par exemple
On peut espérer que le cosmopolitisme traverse toutes les classes sociales en raison, par exemple, de l'Union européenne, du nomadisme des travailleurs, de la facilité de déplacement à l'étranger des étudiants, de la présence des chaînes TV et sites étrangers, etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

strong energetic ruthless practical egotistical
And they believed further that they had to be strong, energetic, ruthless, “practical,” egotistical, because God was dead, and had always, it seemed, been dead—which was going altogether further than the new knowledge justified.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

sun Each rosy peak each
It was with reluctance they obeyed the summons to tea, which withdrew them from the ruddy cliffs of Wisconsin; but on returning to the deck they saw them still, glowing in the light of the setting sun: “Each rosy peak, each flinting spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire; Their rocky summits, split and rent, Form’d turret, dome, or battlement;
— from What Norman Saw in the West by Anonymous

Sir E R Pearce Edgcumbe
Adapted to the Present Time by Sir E. R. Pearce Edgcumbe .
— from Are We Ruined by the Germans? by Harold Cox

SEE Elmer Robert P ELMER
SEE Elmer, Robert P. ELMER, ROBERT P. Archery.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1954 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

sine effigie rudis palus et
Dr. Tylor, to whose great collection of instances I owe many acknowledgments, says in comment on this passage, “Such were the log that stood for Artemis in Euboea; the stake that represented Pallas Athene ‘sine effigie rudis palus, et informe lignum;’ the unwrought stone at Hyethos, which ‘after the ancient manner’ represented Heracles; the thirty such stones which the Pharæans in like fashion worshipped for the gods; and that one which received such honour in Boeotian festivals as representing the Thespian Eros.”
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen

seigneur et roy prenez en
[995] "Encores, Sire, vous supplierons-nous très-humblement pour ce tant bon et tant obéissant peuple françois, duquel Dieu (vostre père et le leur aussi) vous a faict seigneur et roy; prenez en pitié, sire, et soublevez un peu les charges que dès long temps ils portent patiemment.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird


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