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  • Quod non capis, quod non vides,Animósa firmat fides,Præter rerum ordinem.

    Archive 2008-05-01 bls 2008

  • Quam mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber, &c. Sic virgo dum intacta manet, dum chara suis, sed

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • ‘Hæc virtus vidua est, quam non patientia firmat.’

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Jugurtha ubi eos Africa decessisse ratus est, neque propter loci naturam Cirtam armis expugnare potest, vallo atque fossa moenia circumdat, turres extruit easque praesidiis firmat, praeterea dies noctesque aut per vim aut dolis temptare, defensoribus moenium praemia modo, modo formidinem ostentare, suos hortando ad virtutem arrigere, [152] prorsus intentus cuncta parare.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Eadem retinet nos in officio, quod Deo debemus et proximo, et in adversis patientiam firmat, et confessionem veram format atque facit, et, ut uno verbo omnia dicam, omnis generis bonos fructus et bona opera progignit (Gal.v. 22 sqq.).

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • -- For as the law saith, if so be as how there is an exception to evidence, that exception is in its nature but a denial of what is taken to be good by the other party, and exceptio in non exceptis, firmat regulam, d'ye see.

    The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • Exceptio firmat regulam -- The exception confirms the rule.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • Gerizim were to say Amen -- "Happy art thou, O Israel, and mayest thou ever be so;" but then the curses come in as exceptions from the general rule, and we know exceptio firmat regulam -- the exception confirms the rule.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

  • Est pro - culdubio editio illa an. 1506 quam Wolfius tom. iii pag. 617 servari ad - firmat in ea bibliotheca et in Bodle - jana inter codices Huntingtonianos num.

    Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 1795

  • Igitur si Angelicas hoc in loco Theo - logorum sententiam He vero amore benevolentiae ex professo proponit, tractat, probat, et firmat auctoritate, et ratione, eamque vindicat ab objectionibus, satis id cririco cuicumque veritatis amanti essedeberet, ne Doctorem Angelicum pro parte contraria in Disserutione publici fa« eta juris prodncere auderet.

    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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