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Sometimes a Tertullian voices this abdication of the reasoning faculty defiantly -- _certum est quia impossibile est_; but more often perhaps the same position {26} is expressed in the spirit of Tennyson's well-known lines, which, indeed, bear directly upon our immediate theme: --

Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

"_Non est vegetabile quod in fluxionibus alvi efficacius est_."

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

_Justa autem bella solent definiri quæ ulciscuntur injurias, si gens vel civitas plectenda est, quod vel vindicare neglexerit quod a suis improbe factum est, vel reddere quod per injuriam ablatum est_.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

Et cum hoec dixisset, conversa est retrorsum, et vidit Jesum stantem: et non sciebat quia Jesus est_.

Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905

` ` _Conclamatum est, poculatum est_, '' said Prior

Ivanhoe 1892

_Et moi aussi, je reste dans mon trou, et mon trou est assez beau pour que j'y reste, car mon trou est_ -- Richard Wagner.

Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892

_Victor locutus est: causa finita est_ (he liked tags of not recondite Latin himself).

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason with that odd resolution I learned of Tertullian, _Certum est quia impossible est_.

Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888

"_Ut ad bella suscipienda Gallorum alacer et promptus est animus, sic mollis ac minime resistens ad calamitates perferendas mens eorum est_."

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason with that odd resolution I learned of Tertullian, _Certum est quia impossibile est_.

Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878