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_Julio Secundo, si longior contigisset ætas, clarissimum profecto nomen oratoris apud posteros foret.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Gennari, Notizie spettanti al Bl. Niccolo Giustiniani, monaco di S. Niccolo del Lido (Padua, 1794; Venice, 1845); Giustiniano, Epistola ad Polycarpum, virum clarissimum in qua B. Nicholai Justiniani Veneti monachatus a fabulis vanisque commentis asseritur (Trent, 1746);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Sed sequestrari nequit quin omne quod excellentissimum sit id etiam uideatur esse clarissimum.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Credimus, docemus et confitemur, discrimen Legis et Evangelii, ut clarissimum quoddam lumen: [10304] 1
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Credimus, docemus et confitemur, discrimen Legis et Evangelii, ut clarissimum quoddam lumen [ein besonder herrlich Licht], I.
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Emanuelis Lusitaniæ regis &c. per clarissimum juris consultum
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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[2] Alvaro Gomez says of him, "Nam praeter clarissimum tum natalium, tum fortunae, tum dignitatis splendorem, quae in ilio ornamenta summa erant, incredibilem animi sublimitatem cum pari morum facilitate, elegantiâque conjunxerat; ut merito locum in republicâ summo proximum ad supremum usque diem tenuerit."
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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'It is on this account,' as father Damien observes, 'that Mary, who introduced this illustrious day diffused a brightness over the morning by her nativity -- _Maria, veri proevia luminis, nativitate suâ mane clarissimum serenavit_.'
Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II Francis Augustus Cox 1818
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'Cum verò eundem clarissimum virum tot posteà tantique labores, in patriá praesertim linguá ornandá et stabiliendá feliciter impensi, ita insigniverint, ut in Literarum Republicá PRINCEPS jam et PRIMARIUS jure habeatur; Nos CANCELLARIUS, Magistri, et Scholares Universitatis
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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He likewise quotes (tom.x. p. 397) the words of the Saxon annalist, Cujus (Russioe) metropolis est Chive, aemula sceptri Constantinopolitani, quae est clarissimum decus Graeciae.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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