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  • This may even do good (Machiavelli docet ...) to arts and sports!

    ¡Abajo cadenas! Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Early in the last century, when the German historian Adolf von Harnack was appointed head of the Prussian State Library in Berlin, he chose as a legend for the entranceway the Latin tag Bibliotheca docet

    Travels in the Republic of Letters 2009

  • Early in the last century, when the German historian Adolf von Harnack was appointed head of the Prussian State Library in Berlin, he chose as a legend for the entranceway the Latin tag Bibliotheca docet

    Travels in the Republic of Letters 2009

  • From this perspective one can understand the formulation of a medieval couplet that at first sight appears rather disconcerting: littera gesta docet - quid credas allegoria cf.

    Zenit: Benedict XVI on the Roots of European Culture papabear 2008

  • From this perspective one can understand the formulation of a medieval couplet that at first sight appears rather disconcerting: littera gesta docet - quid credas allegoria cf.

    Archive 2008-09-07 papabear 2008

  • Media quod noctis ab hora sedisti qua nemo faber, qua nemo sedebat, qui docet obliquo lanam deducere ferro: rara tamen merces.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [4179] If simples cannot, necessity compels us to use compounds; so for receipts and magistrals, dies diem docet, one day teacheth another, and they are as so many words or phrases,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For as [5514] Erasmus hath it, Musicam docet amor et Poesia, love will make them musicians, and to compose ditties, madrigals, elegies, love sonnets, and sing them to several pretty tunes, to get all good qualities may be had.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Daphne in laurum semper virentem, immortalem docet gloriam paratam virginibus pudicitiam servantibus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Talia mirantibus inculcans passionem septem dormientium, et habitudines corporum singulorum, quas nulla docet litera, ita prompt� disseruit: ac si cum eis quotidiano victitaret contubernio.

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

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