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  • One of this character can never be a refined judge; never what the comic poet calls elegans formarum spectator.

    On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

  • His tract on the intension and remission of forms, De intensione et remissione formarum corporalium, carries the incipit "Circa secundum partem huius distinctionis" and is, therefore, just an excerpt of the

    Gregory of Rimini Schabel, Christopher 2007

  • When [4912] Chaerea saw the singing wench's sweet looks, he was so taken, that he cried out, O faciem pulchram, deleo omnes dehinc ex animo mulieres, taedet quotidianarum harum formarum!

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Thus, for him, imagination is not merely reproductive and combinatory, as it is for the scholastics, but the living source of original forms, what he otherwise calls the sinus inexplebilis formarum et specierum.

    METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

  • An abridgment of this work printed as "Tractatus de latitudinibus formarum" (1482, 1486, 1505, 1515), has heretofore been the only source for the study of his mathematical ideas.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • One of this character can never be a refined judge; never what the comic poet calls elegans formarum spectator.

    On Taste. Introductory Discourse 1909

  • What merit this lady had as an actress, or what was her figure, or her manner, I have not been informed: but, if we may believe Mr. Garrick, his old master's taste in theatrical merit was by no means refined [1366]; he was not an elegans formarum spectator

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Ex his ergo rectè concluditur, formas substantiales materiales non fieri ex nihilo, quia fiunt ex materia, quæ in suo genere per se concurrit, et influit ad esse, et fieri talium formarum; quia, sicut esse non possunt nisi affixae materiæ, a qua sustententur in esse: ita nec fieri possunt, nisi earum effectio et penetratio in eadem materia sustentetur.

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Secundo de omnibus aliis formis substantialibus [sc. materialibus] dicendum est non fieri proprie ex nihilo, sed ex potentia præjacentis materiæ educi: ideoque in effectione harum formarum nil fieri contra illud axioma, _Ex nihilo nihil fit_, si recte intelligatur.

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • It will be some crazy simpleton, who dignifies himself as a man of taste, as _elegans formarum spectator_, as one having a judicious eye for the distinctions of form.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

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