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Alberti was also occupied by the dialectic of the vita activa – vita contemplativa. 33 Through his own treatise on the subject, De commodis literarum atque incommodis,34 and a study of the Florentine family, Della famiglia,35 Alberti deeply influenced a younger generation of powerful and wealthy soldier-scholars, including Leonello d'Este and Federico, who negotiated their turbulent political climate as much by tactical eloquence as by militaristic valor.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Islandiæ, quæ vrbi vestræ iam plurimos annos, exportatis affatim nostratium quibusuis commodis, pecudum, pecorumque carnibus butyro et piscium copia quotannis, penè immodica, quædam quasi cella penuaria fuit?
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Islandi�, qu� vrbi vestr� iam plurimos annos, exportatis affatim nostratium quibusuis commodis, pecudum, pecorumque carnibus butyro et piscium copia quotannis, pen� immodica, qu鎑am quasi cella penuaria fuit?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In that at Pompeii the last word stands for "commodis."
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"Consilium super commodis et incommodis novae sectae Jesuitarum"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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_Pollino, _ he says, _a polleo dictus, quod nobilibus herbis medelae commodis polleat.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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The principle that the proper aim of knowledge is the amelioration of human life, to increase men's happiness and mitigate their sufferings -- commodis humanis inservire -- was the guiding star of
The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894
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Romanae commodis plurimum cogitaverunt, nec L. Sulla ... agrum Campanum attingere ausus est.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Vibhândaci filius, regis commodis intentus, parare sacrum, quo eius desiderium expleret.
Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866
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And, again, on that of the Rev. Nathan Stone, of Dennis: "Vir humilis, mitis, blandus, advenarum hospes; (there was need of him there;) suis commodis in terrâ non studens, reconditis thesauris in coelo."
Cape Cod 1865
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