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One of the major innovations in Vaenius' Amoris divini emblemata is the presence of Divine Love and the Soul in all emblem pictures but one.
Amoris divini emblemata tellurian 2008
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It held: Although stated in terms of contract and tort claims, failure to abide by church bylaws, and various other legal 'emblemata,' the gravamen of the Members' complaint involves their dissatisfaction with Matthews's performance as pastor of New Birth and their desire to remove him from the pulpit, which is an ecclesiastical matter.
Archive 2007-09-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007
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The ground directly outside their walls was fenced off with high slender pillars, separating the public pavement from emblemata mosaics of glittering primary-colour flecks.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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Dicito nobis ideo, qui ades, quid sibi velint isthaec emblemata?
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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The taste for emblemata appears to have passed by, but a good selection would be I think received with favour; particularly if access could be obtained to a good collection.
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-- W.] [Footnote 81: The number of these emblemata (a polite name for forgeries) is much reduced by Bynkershoek, (in the four last books of his Observations,) who poorly maintains the right of Justinian and the duty of Tribonian.] [Footnote 82: The antinomies, or opposite laws of the Code and
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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W.] 81 The number of these emblemata (a polite name for forgeries) is much reduced by
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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