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  • Gallicae consuetudinis est ut viatores etiam invitos consistere cogant, et quid quisque eorum audierit aut cognorit de qua re quaerunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Agri Neapolitani delectatio, elegantia, amoenitas, vix intra modum humanum consistere videtur; unde, &c. Leand, Alber. in Campania.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The sure characteristic of a sound and strong mind, is to find in everything those certain bounds, quos ultra citrave nequit consistere rectum.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • I find any alterations by drinking these waters, now six days, it is rather for the better; but, in six days more, I think I shall find with more certainty what humor they are in with me; if kind, I will profit of, but not abuse their kindness; all things have their bounds, quos ultra citrave nequit consistere rectum; and I will endeavor to nick that point.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Vt autem Deus ostenderet animas suorum martyrum iam in coelis consistere, et congaudere cum Deo et

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Atqui s鎝e idimus eiusmodi solitariam molem post abactam reliquam glaciem, nullis vectibus nullis machinis detentam, ad l韙tus multis septimanis consistere.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Atqui sæpe idimus eiusmodi solitariam molem post abactam reliquam glaciem, nullis vectibus nullis machinis detentam, ad líttus multis septimanis consistere.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • He before mentioned, after a long dispute (namely, 104), concludes: “Ex his sequitur differentiam inter donum perseverantiæ et confirmationis in gratia” (he means that which is granted in via) “in hoc consistere, quod donum perseverantiæ nullam perfectionem intrinsecam constituit in ipsa gratia habituali, quod tamen perfectionem intrinsecam illi tribuit confirmatio in gratia.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Vineae cum ingenti periculo frustra agebantur; nam quum eae paulo processerant, igni aut lapidibus corrumpebantur, milites neque pro opere consistere propter iniquitatem loci, neque inter vineas sine periculo administrare; [505] optimus quisque cadere aut sauciari, ceteris metus augeri.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ex his, acutus in correptis semper, interdum productis syllabis versatur; inflexus (or 'circumflexus'), in his quae producuntur; gravis autem per se nunquam consistere in ullo verbo potest, sed in his in quibus inflexus est, aut acutus ceteras syllabas obtinet.

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

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