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  • Hence, to cite again from the Dedication liturgy of a church, the church building: “Hic domus Dei est, et porta coeli”.

    The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 2 2009

  • I am a Pisces with a Capricorn medium coeli, after all.

    Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010

  • They vary in technique from complex canonic structures (Haec Deum coeli) and luxuriantly sonorous polyphony (the six-voice Salve regina) to works of exquisitely transparent texture in which the words are declaimed with a clarity unusual for Obrecht (Factor orbis, based on a miscellany of plainchant melodies for the Christmas period).

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium, et invisibilium.

    Excerpt: Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett 2007

  • Cap. 7. de pulchritudine regna et imperia totius terras et maris et coeli oportet abjicere si ad ipsum conversus veils inseri.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Bellonius, Rondoletius, Hippolitus Salvianus, &c. [3326] Arcana coeli, naturae secreta, ordinem universi scire majoris felicitatis et dulcedinis est, quam cogitatione quis assequi possit, aut mortalis sperare.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quantus ad aethereum coeli suspectus Olympum: for that is a thing the proportion of earth to heaven cannot bear: but that we should believe them there, indefinitely, where those men are, on whom God inflicted that exemplary punishment.

    Leviathan 2007

  • For if the earth be the centre of the world, stand still, and the heavens move, as the most received [3100] opinion is, which they call inordinatam coeli dispositionem, though stiffly maintained by Tycho,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Multi mortem timent, et tamen sibi ipsis mortem consciscunt, alii coeli ruinam timent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Atrae bili adversatur, omnium gemmarum pulcherrima, coeli colorem refert, animum ab errore liberat, mores in melius mutat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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