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  • Beyond this we take with us Willington, which gives name alio to a houfe and gentleman of a long and good delcent •, and Roftherne, the pa - rifh-church (impropriate and belonging to Chrift. church in Oxford, and a vicarage there), ftand - ing over a fpacious and goodly mere, whofe wafte waters help to enlarge the Bollin river; but we ttay to look more wefterly again to that great lordfliip, parilh, and precinft of Lymm, which reacheih down again to the Mcriey fide.

    The History of Cheshire: Containing King's Vale-royal Entire 1778

  • “Possibile ex se, necessarium ab alio: Tommaso d™Aquino e Enrico di Gand,”

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • Effler, Roy R. (1962), John Duns Scotus and the Principle “Omne quod movetur ab alio movetur”, St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute.

    Medieval Theories of Causation White, Graham 2009

  • For materialism implies that you are an ens per alio, a logical construction.

    Roderick Chisholm Feldman, Richard 2008

  • Note for example that if a certain ship (an ens per alio) has a property such as the property of weighing so-and-so many pounds at a certain time, it has this property in virtue of the fact that the ens per se that constitutes at that time actually has that property.

    Roderick Chisholm Feldman, Richard 2008

  • Ex quo te primum vidi Pythia alio oculos vertere non fuit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Epictetus: optime feceris si ea fugeris quae in alio reprehendis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Si ex tristitia aut alio affectu caeperit, speciem considera, aut aliud qui eorum, quae subitam alterationem facere possunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quisque in alio superfluum esse censet, ipse quod non habet nec curat, that which he hath not himself or doth not esteem, he accounts superfluity, an idle quality, a mere foppery in another: like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Urit enim praecordia aegritudo animi compressa, et in angustiis adducta mentem. subvertit, nec alio medicamine facilius erigitur, quam cordati hominis sermone.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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