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Vix autem mirum esse potest, quòd ignis montis radicibus latens, & nunquam, nisi rarissimè erumpens, excelsa montis cacumina, quæ niuibus obducuntur, non collique faciat.
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Vix autem mirum esse potest, qu騞 ignis montis radicibus latens, & nunquam, nisi rarissim� erumpens, excelsa montis cacumina, qu� niuibus obducuntur, non collique faciat.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As regards the latent process (_latens processus_) which goes on in all cases of generation and continuous development or motion, we examine carefully, and by quantitative measurements, the gradual growth and change from the first elements to the completed thing.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The latent configuration (_latens schematismus_) or inward structure of the parts of a body must be known before we can hope to superinduce a new nature upon it.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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"Adoro te devote, latens Deitas," said St. Thomas in his great mystical hymn: and the practical side of that adoration consists in the bringing of the Real Presence from its hiddenness, and exhibiting it before the eyes of other men.
Practical Mysticism 1875-1941 1915
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A phrase in the first line, latens Deitas, appears in a hymn for the
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"Adoro te devote, latens Deitas," said St. Thomas in his great mystical hymn: and the practical side of that adoration consists in the bringing of the
Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People Evelyn Underhill 1908
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The Church does not stir in the matter; it deplores and prays, which seems, in some respects, an ineffectual method of protecting the _latens Deitas_.
Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899
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Think of all that subtly disguised movement, latens processus, Bacon calls it (again as if by a kind of anticipation) which
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866
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Ibi vix quemquam inventum senatorem, qui vel absens evaserit; hic vix quemquam requiri, qui forte ut latens perierit.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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