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  • [Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso ver� die terti� feri� dum sic in superbia et elatione su� multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Church, the abandonment of worldly pursuits, the terrors of many, the anxiety of the calmest, the emotional excesses which led people to live in trees that they might be near to heaven when the "great trump" should sound, -- "Mundi fine appropinquante."

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

  • At ingravescente paulatim senectute, et morte appropinquante, quam neque animi dotes egregiae, neque pietas eximia potest propulsare, vir optimus, qui huic saeculo abunde profuisset, venturis etiam saeculis prospexit; et ut doctrinam immensam libris mandatam posteris reliquit, sic opes quae ex effusa largitione tandem superfuerant, ita legavit, ut literarum studio et pietati promovendae per omne aevum inservirent.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • Most of the Donations express their motive, "appropinquante mundi fine."

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • [Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso verò die tertiæ feriæ dum sic in superbia et elatione suæ multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

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