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  • Galeria, Copiola, Emboliariae, reducta est in scenam: annum certissimum quartum agens_, "is thus translated by an English author, Philemon Holland," Lucceia, a common

    A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

  • Quod si apud illum rerum omnium certissimum fontem nihil incerti esse potest, certus eorum est euentus quae futura firmiter ille praescierit.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Estque certissimum opera illa, quae in vera fide fiunt a parentibus, per conjugii officia et oeconomiam, esse coram Deo sancta et vere bona opera, et placere haec Deo non minus, quam preces, jejunia, atque eleemosynas.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Estque certissimum opera illa, quae in vera fide fiunt a parentibus, per conjugii officia et oeconomiam, esse coram Deo sancta et vere bona opera, et placere haec Deo non minus, quam preces, jejunia, atque eleemosynas.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • In Spinoza's own beautiful language, -- 'Justitia et caritas unicum et certissimum veræ fidei

    Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Virum enimvero ideo mihi quam maxime hâc occasione lugendum est, quod amicum probitate et modestia præditum amiserim, virumque cum primis diligentem et peritum intercidisse tam certum sit quam quod certissimum.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • De numis aeneis II. et III. formae te - sed etiam quia certissimum hoc pacto nui stanni folio opertis et sic cusis, sed praebent genuinae antiquitatis testimo -. qui inde a Claudio Gothico usque ad Dio - luum.

    Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792

  • Iliad autem, quod rei nostrae interest, certissimum est, hie loqui Apostolum de Charitate, cuius est opera in Deum dirigere, et in gloriam Dei agere, ei ut placeat tanquam ami -

    Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792

  • _in quem cadit et concurrit, ut ob crimen commissum simul et humanæ justitiæ et Deorum vindictæ sit obnoxius, ac velut oppignoratus; illi certissimum exitium imminet_.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • If your Majesty find any aptness in me, or if you find any scarcity in others, whereby you may think it fit for your service to remove me to business of State, although I have a fair way before me for profit (and by your Majesty's grace and favour for honour and advancement), and in a course less exposed to the blasts of fortune, _yet now that he is gone, quo vivente virtutibus certissimum exitium_, I will be ready as a chessman to be wherever your Majesty's royal hand shall set me.

    Bacon John Morley 1852

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