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“Percussit eos in secretiori parte natium, et ebullierunt villæ et agri .... et nati sunt mures, et facta est confusio mortis magna in civitate.”
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Non satis aestimare, an melior parens natura homini, an tristior noverca fuerit: Nulli fragilior vita, pavor, confusio, rabies major, uni animantium ambitio data, luctus, avaritia, uni superstitio.
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Just another contradiction in the book that has all the confusio…..
Think Progress » Prominent Right-Wing Activist Smears Kuo As Member Of ‘Axis Of Evil’ 2006
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Sarek arched an eyebrow and said to Daniel, "Mulier est hominis confusio."
The Idic Epidemic Jean Lorrah 2000
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Industrial accession required human intervention and occurred by adjunctio, specificatio, or commixtio, or by a species of the latter, confusio.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Quae uero, inquies, potest ulla iniquior esse confusio, quam ut bonis tum aduersa tum prospera, malis etiam tum optata tum odiosa contingant?
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Nec uitia igitur nec uirtutes quidquam fuerint, sed omnium meritorum potius mixta atque indiscreta confusio.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Hic igitur quidquid citra spem uideas geri, rebus quidem rectus ordo est, opinioni uero tuae peruersa confusio.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Interea propter ordinem servandum, unus aut certus aliquis ministrorum coetum convocavit, et in coetu res consultandas proposuit, sententias item aliorum collegit, denique, ne qua oriretur confusio, pro virili cavit.
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Council, as I have quoted it at p. 248, says, "Vanitate et mendacio fides ac veritas tolluntur, arctissima vincula _societatis humanæ_; quibus sublatis, sequitur summa vitæ _confusio_, ut _homines nihil a dæmonibus differre videantur_."
Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845
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