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Whenever a new technology arrives, it is the habits of the brahmans of society to ridicule it and point out to the imminet catastrophe that will happen. if the device gains popularity The same thing happened when the railways and the telephone was launched, with many people warning in letters to newspapers of how “millions” will die,crushed by the passing trains as one letter writer wrote to London Times when the railways was launched.
Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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In the past when have taken him for blood work before i "got it" he would "manage" up until the needle was imminet and then he would freak and curl up into fetal position.
Trypanophobia: Needle Phobia, fencing and my blood work Elizabeth McClung 2007
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Even Virgil describes the grotto of Aeneas merely as a "black grove" with "horrid shade," -- "_Horrenti atrum nemus imminet umbrâ_."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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Slavs, by the bye, had been sometimes looked upon with scanty favour by the Popes: in July of the year 600 we find Gregory I. saying in a letter to the Bishop of Salona that he was much disturbed at the news he had just received "de Sclavorum gente, quæ vobis valde imminet, affligor vehementer et conturbor."
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917
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St. Augustine agrees with him: "Erat latitudo in qua porrectæ sunt manus longitudo a terrâ surgens, in quâ erat corpus infixum; altitudo ab illo divexo ligno sursum quod imminet" (Enarr. in Ps. ciii; Serm. i, 44) and in other passages quoted by Zöckler (Das Kreuz, 1875, pp. 430, 431).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Hoc enim illis ut dictum est imminet qui inter eos distantiam faciunt meritorum.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Timeamus ergo iudicium quod imminet doctoribus; grave enim vero iudicium subituri sunt doctores illi, qui docent
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Timeamus ergo iudicium quod imminet doctoribus; grave enim vero iudicium subituri sunt doctores illi, qui docentCp.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Ergo ingens nobis periculum imminet ab hoc gigante visu horribili; tuum est, alme Parens! auxilium parare, quo hic deleatur.
Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866
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Oceanum enim ingressus sum, in quo portum invenire difficile est, naufragii periculum à syrtibus et scopulis imminet.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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