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  • That the usurer breaketh the first law, that was made for mankind after the fall, which was, in sudore vultus tui comedes panem tuum; not, in sudore vultus alieni.

    The Essays 2007

  • Usury is the certainest means of gain, though one of the worst; as that whereby a man doth eat his bread, in sudore vultus alieni; and besides, doth plough upon Sundays.

    The Essays 2007

  • Another must have roses in winter, alieni temporis flores, snow-water in summer, fruits before they can be or are usually ripe, artificial gardens and fishponds on the tops of houses, all things opposite to the vulgar sort, intricate and rare, or else they are nothing worth.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sir Walpole was a jolly fellow, eager to seize and to spend money (alieni appetens, sui profusus, as Mr. Crawley would remark with a sigh), and in his day beloved by all the county for the constant drunkenness and hospitality which was maintained at

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Video musicale colorato e variegato, con auto dalle ruote quadrate, diggei e rapimenti alieni.

    No Fat Clips!!! : DJ YODA – Wheels 2006

  • Videamus.ff. de his qui sunt sui vel alieni juris, et in l.munerum. para. mixta ff. de mun. et hon.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Videamus.ff. de his qui sunt sui vel alieni juris, et in l.munerum. para. mixta ff. de mun. et hon.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • * Ex nequissimis in ipso vitae exitu gratia invenit quos adoptet, cum tamen multi, etiam qui minus nocentes videantur, doni hujus alieni sunt.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • "Ex nequissimis in ipso vitae exitu gratia invenit quos adoptet, cum tamen multi, etiam qui minus nocentes videantur, doni hujus alieni sunt."

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Following classical tradition, the sev - enth-century scholar Isidore of Seville called allegory an inversion of speech, alieni loquium, aliud enim sonat, aliud intelligitur, whereby, in saying one thing

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968

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