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Hence such names as priests, elders, senate , and gerontes .
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 7 Note 5 ( return ) [ Sublatus nuper a pecoribus et silvis (says Lactantius de M. P. c. 19) statim Scutarius, continuo Protector, mox Tribunus, postridie Caesar, accepit Orientem.
— 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
Or if I had further conceived of you, not only as having nose and eyes, but as having a snub nose and prominent eyes, should I have any more notion of you than of myself and others who resemble me?
— from Theaetetus by Plato
"Or, if I had further known you not only as having nose and eyes, but as having a snub nose and prominent eyes, should I have any more notion of you than myself and others who resemble me?"
— from The Symposium by Xenophon
Quin etiam Ecclesia per se ipsa, ob suam nempe admirabilem propagationem, eximiam sanctitatem et inexhaustam in omnibus bonis foecunditatem, ob catholicam unitatem, invictamque stabilitatem, magnum quoddam et perpetuum est motivum credibilitatis et divinae suae legationis testimonium irrefragabile.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various
Me semyth that his highnes hathe heryn Declared vnto vs the grettest loue that eu er did noble prynce vnto his humble and obeysaunt subiect es , seyng that his high wysdome doth not disdayne to co m municate and declare vnto vs his waighty entrepases and affayres, in this autentyk man er assemblyd by the mowthe of so notable a p er sonage, beseching god of his haboundant goodnes and [32] ynfynyte m
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman
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