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  • If it's a survey of American comics class, or a history of comics class, or a Storytelling Techniques in Comics class, sure I'd have lots of superhero comics on the syllabis.

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • I was half converted to Transubstantiation by Tillotson's common senses against it; seeing clearly that the same grounds totidem verbis et syllabis would serve the Socinian against all the mysteries of Christianity.

    Coleridge on Tillotson Against Transubstantiation 2006

  • Ex his, acutus in correptis semper, interdum productis syllabis versatur; inflexus (or 'circumflexus'), in his quae producuntur; gravis autem per se nunquam consistere in ullo verbo potest, sed in his in quibus inflexus est, aut acutus ceteras syllabas obtinet.

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

  • Swift has bungled his satire where he makes Peter a party to finding out what he wants, _totidem syllabis_ and

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • In short, all the impossibilities which the acutest of the reformed Divines have detected in the hypothesis of transubstantiation would apply, _totidem verbis et syllabis_, to that of assimilation, if the objects and the agents were really heterogeneous.

    Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • "It is true," said he, "there is nothing here in this will, totidem verbis, making mention of shoulder-knots, but I dare conjecture we may find them inclusive, or totidem syllabis."

    A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706

  • But their evil star had so directed the matter that the first syllable was not to be found in the whole writing; upon which disappointment, he who found the former evasion took heart, and said, "Brothers, there is yet hopes; for though we cannot find them totidem verbis nor totidem syllabis, I dare engage we shall make them out tertio modo or totidem literis."

    A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706

  • - Constat hic doch - 'jnius ex quinque longis syllabis.

    Euripidis tragoediae. 1812

  • If totidem verbis [75] will not serve our turn, try totidem syllabis; if totidem syllabis fail, try totidem literis: then there is in our case, as well as in theirs, "an allegorical sense" to be adverted to; and if every other resource fail us, we come at last to the same conclusion as the Brothers adopted, that after all, those rigorous clauses require some allowance, and a favourable interpretation, and ought to be understood "cum grano salis."

    A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. William Wilberforce 1796

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