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Aristotle; Kepler's geometrical universe was also in - spired by a Being who in the Harmonice mundi is said to be “Geometriæ fons ipsissimus, et, ut PLATO scrip - sit, æternam exercens Geometriam” (Werke, ed.M. Caspar [1940], VI, 299).
HIERARCHY AND ORDER C. A. PATRIDES 1968
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That idea of serving his country is Pisistratus ipsissimus all over.
The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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That idea of serving his country is Pisistratus ipsissimus all over.
The Caxtons — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Will it be real witchcraft -- the _ipsissimus diabolus_ -- or an impostor, or the half-crazed being who believes herself an ally of condemned spirits, and desires to be so?
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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