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  • Sed praeter expectationem res evenit, Audax stultitia in eam irruit, &c. illa cedit irrisa, et plures hinc habet sectatores stultitia.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Si quis rerum mortalium fructus ullum beatitudinis pondus habet, poteritne illius memoria lucis quantalibet ingruentium malorum mole deleri, cum duos pariter consules liberos tuos domo prouehi sub frequentia patrum, sub plebis alacritate uidisti, cum eisdem in curia curules insidentibus tu regiae laudis orator ingenii gloriam facundiaeque meruisti, cum in circo duorum medius consulum circumfusae multitudinis expectationem triumphali largitione satiasti?

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • In the meane time he to his woonted walk in the church, and there, præter expectationem, he found Lionello walking.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Accedit, quòd præter omnem expectationem meam ab omnibus tuis ciuibus, quibus comaliqua consuetudo mihi contigit, tanta passìm humanitate acceptus essem, vt iam (sit hoc saluo pietate à me dictum) suauissimæ Anglorum amicitiæ fermè aboleuerint desiderium et Pannoniarum et Budæ meæ, quibus patriæ nomen debeo.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • - hes pro amico moreretur, quamvis post mortem nihil ab eo expectaret • ha enim nos oportet non propter Regni expectationem nee propter aliquam sdiam Spem futurorum bonorum, sed propter ipsum Denm omnia pati •

    Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792

  • Qnx legit Cypriani exbot* tationes ad Martyres) videbitur sibi forsan nullam aliam agnoscere vi9 - tutem, praeter tolerantiam, et futuri Regni expectationem • Qui legac Chrysostomum Charitatis virtutem) et excellentiam amplissimis lau - dibus extollentem) primo aspectu judicabit S.

    Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792

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