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  • ‘(Haurit aquam cribro, qui discere vult sine libro)’

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Cumque huius moris discere voluissem causam, accepi responsum, pro certis temporibus apud eos, virgines habuisse in matricibus paruos serpentes, quibus nocebantur primi ad illas intrantes.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Cumque huius moris discere voluissem causam, accepi responsum, pro certis temporibus apud eos, virgines habuisse in matricibus paruos serpentes, quibus nocebantur primi ad illas intrantes.

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

  • [3568] Such is the sense educed by Harvey from the old Latin version, which thus runs: "Decipiuntur autem omnes, qui quod est in verbis verisimile, se putant posse discere a veritate."

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Neque rursus nos aliter discere poteramus, nisi Magistrum nostrum videntes, et per auditum nostrum vocem ejus percipientes, uti imitatores quidem operum, factores autem sermonum ejus facti, communionem habeamus cum ipso

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • Nam tibi non tantum venturos discere nimbos agricolis qualemque ferat sol aureus ortum, attribuere dei, sed dulcia carmina saepe concinis.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Decorum est foeminam in Germania nata [sic] discere Gallice, ut loquatur cum his qui sciunt Gallice; cur igitur habetur indecorum discere Latine, ut quotidie confabuletur cum tot autoribus tam facundis, tam eruditis, tam sapientibus, tam fides consultoribus.

    Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925

  • This is the reason why the second master general, Jordan of Saxony, defined the vocation of the order: "honeste vivere, discere et docere", i.e. upright living, learning and teaching (Vitæ Fratrum, p. 138); and one of his successors, John the Teuton, declared that he was "ex ordine Praedicatorum, quorum proprium esset docendi munus"

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Marti redonabo; illum ego lucidas inire sedes, discere nectaris

    The Path of the Just Horace 1912

  • Obest plerumque iis qui discere volunt, auctoritas eorum qui docent: 10 “Most commonly the authoritie of them that teach, hinders them that would learne.

    Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909

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