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  • Osanna, Sanctus Deus Sabaoth, superillustrans claritate tua felices ignes horum malacoth!

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • In such cases he or they must wisely and warily unwind themselves, unsettle his affections by those rules above prescribed, — [5856] quin stultos excutit ignes, divert his cogitations, or else bravely bear it out, as Turnus did, Tua sit Lavinia conjux, when he could not get her, with

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless and ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities; and their end, contention and sedition, or contempt.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Such lives as his are of necessity ignes fatui, playing lambently upon the mere surface of things but leaving no lasting mark.

    Black day in July 2007

  • Such lives as his are of necessity ignes fatui, playing lambently upon the mere surface of things but leaving no lasting mark.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Fiery spirits or devils are such as commonly work by blazing stars, fire-drakes, or ignes fatui; which lead men often in flumina aut praecipitia, saith Bodine, lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In the forest, the dead wood is phosphorescent; some nights the whole ground is strewn with it, so that it seems like a grating over a pale hell; doubtless this is one of the things that feed the night fears of the natives; and I am free to confess that in a night of trackless darkness where all else is void, these pallid ignes suppositi have a fantastic appearance, rather bogey even.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • Vnde quando veniunt ad eos nuncij, vel Principes, aut qualescunque personæ, oportet ipsos et munera sua per duos ignes, vt purificentur, transire, ne fortè veneficia fecerint, aut venenum seu aliquid mali attulerint.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Cæterum si aliquis à fulgure occiditur, oportet prædicto modo per ignes transire omnes illos, qui in illis stationibus morantur.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Duos quidem ignes faciunt, et duas hastas iuxta eos, vnamque cordam in summitate hastarum ponunt.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

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