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Pro peccátis suae gentis vidit Jesum in torméntis et flagéllis subditum.
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In true academic style Bede puts his CV and publication list at the end of the work, and it appears there as "Historiam ecclesiasticam nostrae insulae ac gentis" or "Ecclesiastical History of our island and people".
Bede: the Father of the Footnote Carla 2007
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Vix ultius gentis, aetatis, ordinis, hominem invenies cujus felicitatem fortunae Metelli compares, Vol. 1. 1772.
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In his Author's Preface he describes it to King Ceolwulf using the Latin phrase "Historiam gentis Anglorum ecclesiasticam".
Bede: the Father of the Footnote Carla 2007
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Iamque domos patrias Scithice post aspera gentis prelia laurigero &c. Thebaid, xii, 519.
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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Homines quoque suæ gentis inclinauit ad se, qui tanquam
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Simile et in Italia Marsorum gentis durat, quos à Circes filio ortos seruant, et ideo inesse ijs vim naturalem eam.
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Falcones volare, et capiunt eas; Et sic habet solatium suum equitando, et per iactum vnius lapidis nullus audet appropinquare currui nisi populus assignatus: vnde incredibile esset homini qui non vidisset de numero gentis suæ, et reginæ, et primogeniei sui.
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Ipsi Ægyptii, hominum vetustissimos se prædicantes, cum Scythis de gentis antiquitate olim contenderunt.
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Caput gentis fuit Garama, quam hodieque eodem nomine exstare tradunt.
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