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  • Musculus, Patritius, ad vim sibi inferendam cogit homines.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Phryne on the walls of Thebes, Phryne fecit; this causeth so many bloody battles, — Et noctes cogit vigilare serenas; and induces us to watch during calm nights.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • He must turn rogue and villain; for as the saying is, Necessitas cogit ad turpia, poverty alone makes men thieves, rebels, murderers, traitors, assassins, because of poverty we have sinned,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Pontifex Romanus prorsus inermis regibus terrae jura dat, ad regna evehit ad pacem cogit, et peccantes castigat, &c. quod imperatores Romani 40. legionibus armati non effecerunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In the meantime, quot torsit amantes? one suitor pines away, languisheth in love, mori quot denique cogit! another sighs and grieves, she cares not: and which [5849] Siroza objected to

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Si qui sic moriantur, aut infirmitas, aut ambitio, aut dementia cogit eos; 'tis mere madness so to do, [2783] furore est ne moriare mori.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Christian will be so irreligious, to bring up his son in that course of life, which by all probability and necessity, cogit ad turpia, enforcing to sin, will entangle him in simony and perjury, when as the poet said,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cum simplicia non possunt neccessitas cogit ad composita.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Necessitas nunc cogit aliquando noxia quaerere remedia, et ex simplicibus compositas facere, tum ad saporem, odorem, palati gratiam, ad correctionem simplicium, tum ad futuros usus, conservationem, &c. 4179.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Pessimum et pertinacissimum morbum qui homines in bruta degenerare cogit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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