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Partim quia subtilioris sensus acumine, partim scientia calidiore vigent et experientia propter magnam longitudinem vitae, partim ab Angelis discunt, &c. 1153.
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Teutonici: sed in capite portant pileos de filtro acutos in summitate longo acumine.
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Teutonici: sed in capite portant pileos de filtro acutos in summitate longo acumine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This tree had the Anglo-Saxon name Pimm, from pen, or pin, a sharp rock, -- "_ab acumine foliorum_," or perhaps as a contraction of _picinus_ -- pitchy.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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He is described on his monument as being "facundia amabilis, acumine terribilis, eruditione auctissimus."
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In my Respondency of 1822, November 6, the compliment was, “Quaestiones tuas summo ingenio et acumine defendisti, et in rebus mathematicis scientiam plane mirabilem ostendisti.”
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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Sicut Ecclesia canit: 'Lapsus Adae vi pessima humana tota massa, natura et ipsa essentia corrupta, luce cassa,' [47] etc. Hoc quantum sit malum, verbis revera est inexplicabile, neque humanae rationis acumine indagari, sed duntaxat per verbum Dei revelatum agnosci potest.
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Antiqua FORDORUM gente oriunda; quam domi sedulam, foris paucis notam; nulli molestam, mentis acumine et judicii subtilitate praecellentem; aliis multum, sibi parum indulgentem: aeternitati semper attentam, omne fere virtutis nomen commendavit.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Varietas S. maculati, sepalorum acumine paulo breviore.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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Concionibus novo quodam et plane suo, Sed illustri, sed admirabili dicendi genere excellens; Ut harum rerum peritis dubitandi sit locus, Utrum ingenii acumine an argumentorum vi, Utrum doctrinae ubertate, an splendore verborum et pondere praestaret: Hisce certe omnibus simul instructus adjumentisAnimos audientium non tenuit tantum, sed percelluit, iuflammavit.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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