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  • The rite concludes with the prayer “Respice, quaesumus, Domine, super hanc familiam tuam,” the only prayer said in the office on these days.

    Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum 2009

  • Creasti in me hanc imaginem tuam, ut tui memor te cogitem, te amem.

    St Anselm 2 2009

  • Creasti in me hanc imaginem tuam, ut tui memor te cogitem, te amem.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Petrus et super hanc petram, etc., etc. The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in heroes.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Mihi diligentius hanc rem consideranti, patet quosdam esse, qui non laborant maerore et timore.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Multos vide mus propter invidiam et odium in melancholiam incidisse: et illos potissimum quorum corpora ad hanc apta sunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sannazarius was very right in saying, in comparing Rome and Venice: “Illam homines dices, hanc posuisse deos.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Omnes optant quandam in medicina felicitatem, sed hanc non est quod expectent, nisi deum vera fide invocent, atque regros similiter ad ardentem vocationem excitent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Aeternae beatitudinis consortes fore, qui sancte innocenterque hanc vitam traduxerint, quamcunque illi religionem sequuti sunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Paratus sum ad obeundum mortem, si tu jubeas; hanc sitim aestuantis seda, quam tuum sidus perdidit, aquae et fontes non negant, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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