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I've heard that serial retrogrouch and uber-curmudgeon Jobst Brandt once caught somebody spying on him as he was in flagrante rota aedificium edificium with a truing stand and a Mavic MA2, and then proceeded to savagely beat the voyeur with an Avocet FasGrip.
Archive 2009-11-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009
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I've heard that serial retrogrouch and uber-curmudgeon Jobst Brandt once caught somebody spying on him as he was in flagrante rota aedificium edificium with a truing stand and a Mavic MA2, and then proceeded to savagely beat the voyeur with an Avocet FasGrip.
Waist Not Want Not: Excessive Wear BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Turpe enim est homini ignorare sui corporis (ut ita dicam) aedificium, praesertim cum ad valetudinem et mores haec cognitio plurimum conducat.
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Hinc versus Septemtrionem mill. circiter L. distat nobile aedificium, amplum atque antiquum, quadra forma ex ingentibus saxis constructum.
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Memini frequenter, et quoties reminiscor, toto corpore cohorresco, me in praerupto altissimi montis manibus et pedibus reptantem, ac proximum praecipitio, subito translatum nescio à quo aut quomodo, in alium locum: et alia vice ex eminentiori deambulacro aedium patris cadentem inter acervum lapidum poliendorum ad aedificium, servatum esse divinitus.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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Illa si tollas deerit fabrica: haec quamvis desiderentur, manet tamen aedificium.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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Illa si invertas aut mutes, non idem aedificium manebit, sed aliud: haec quamvia tollas, idem manere potest aedificium: haud secus quam de homine quoquam, deque ejus vestimentis philosopheris.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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Hinc versus Septemtrionem mill. circiter L. distat nobile aedificium, amplum atque antiquum, quadra forma ex ingentibus saxis constructum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Hinc jam occasio nascitur, ut etiam unusquisque privatum aedificium construens, per gratiam judicum ..... praesumere de publicis locis necessaria, et transferre non dubitet &c. With equal zeal, but with less power, Petrarch, in the fourteenth century, repeated the same complaints.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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One, showing the conception of the state religion as a purely human institution, explains why human antiquities are placed before divine, "_Sicut prior est pictor quam tabula picta, prior faber quam aedificium; ita priores sunt civitates, quam ea quae a civitatibus instituta sunt.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
gammerstang commented on the word aedificium
A fortified tower
July 13, 2019