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  • Their united meaning is found in the term erga i.e., works, the word constantly employed in the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • - The law has to take into account the "externalities" or side effects of all financial transactions according to the legal principle of erga omnes

    Toxic Assets Were Hidden Assets Hernando de Soto 2009

  • The law must take into account externalities — how all financial transactions affect outside, interested parties (the age-old legal principle of erga omnes, "toward all," historically developed under property law to protect third parties from the negative consequences of secret deals carried out by aristocracies unaccountable to no one but themselves).

    TOXIC Paper 2009

  • Fili carissime, digne censeri videtur filius, qui, paternos in bonis mores imitans, piam ejus nititur exequi voluntatem; nec proprie sibi sumit nomen heredis, qui salubribus predecessoris affectibus non adherit: Cupientes igitur, ut piam affectionem et scinceram delectionem, quam erga monasterium de Melros, ubi cor nostrum ex speciali devotione disposuimus tumularidum, et erga

    The Abbot 2008

  • Exornando seipsam eleganter, facilem et hilarem se gerendo erga cunctos, ridendo suave ac blandum quid,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Talia multa connectentes, longum reprehensionis sermonem erga Dei providentiam contexunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • He keeps in for state, ne majestatis dignitas evilescat, as our China kings, of Borneo, and Tartarian Chams, those aurea mancipia, are said to do, seldom or never seen abroad, ut major sit hominum erga se observantia, which the [3704] Persian kings so precisely observed of old.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vehemens et assidua cogitatio rei erga quam afficitur, spiritus in cerebrum evocat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Pleni sunt libri quibus ferae in homines inflammatae fuerunt, in quibus ego quidem semper assensum sustinui, veritus ne fabulosa crederem; Donec vidi lyncem quem habui ab Assyria, sic affectum erga unum de meis hominibus, &c. 4673.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Propter studium tuum erga lingua latina, tibi suadere velim, ut sodalis fias 'Gregis Latine Loquentium', ubi omnes de omnibus Latine scribunt Ecce paginae interretiales.

    A Modest Proposal 2006

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