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How comes, or wherefore is this temeraria siderum dispositio, this rash placing of stars, or as Epicurus will, fortuita, or accidental?
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"Atqui," inquam, "nullo existimauerim modo ut fortuita temeritate tam certa moueantur, uerum operi suo conditorem praesidere deum scio nec umquam fuerit dies qui me ab hac sententiae ueritate depellat."
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Cui nullum bonum malumque sit, nisi bonus malusque animus -- Quem nec extollant fortuita, nec frangant -- Cui vera voluptas erit voluptatum comtemplio -- Cui unum bonum honestas, unum malum turpitudo.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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In the same manner, we found our way under the papacy to uncovenanted mercy (_fortuita gratia_), if I may use this expression, for no promise was previously given that the truth was to be revealed in our lifetime, and the Antichrist to become manifest.
Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Martin Luther 1514
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Qui vero quum fol obfcuraretur, ec ve* lum fcinderetur, terraque commoueretur, ac pe - trae finderentur, aliaque figua in refurreclione eius iierent, maiitiam addiderunt, et fortuita haec
Commentarius in quatuor Evagelia graece et latine : textum graecum nunquam antea editum ad fidem duorum codicum membranaceorum bibliothecarum Ss. Synodi Mosquensis auctoris aetate scriptorum diligenter recensuit et repetita versione latina Ioannis Hentenii suisque adiectis animadversionibus edidit Christianus fider : Matthaei .. Matthäi, Christian Friedrich von, 1744-1811 1792
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Proditionem liltro imputabant: spatium hngi ante ftcelium itineris, fatigationem Otbonianorum, permixtum vebiculis agmen, ac pk -- raque fortuita y fraudi siia adsignantes: & ViteIIiu» credidit de perfidia, & fidem absolvit (87).
C. Cornelii Taciti Opera Cornelius Tacitus , Cayo Cornelio Tácito , Gabriel Brotier , Tommaso Bettinelli 1783
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Adfperfa temere pig - menta in tabula, oris lineamenta effingere poffijnt num etiam Veneris Coa: pulchritudinem cffingi pofle adfperfione fortuita putas?
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