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  • In 787 Charlemagne issued to all the bishops and abbots of Francia an historic Capitulare de litteris colendis, or directive on the study of letters.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2009

  • In 787 Charlemagne issued to all the bishops and abbots of Francia an historic Capitulare de litteris colendis, or directive on the study of letters.

    Archive 2008-01-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura -- Seneca

    Archive 2008-01-01 Paul 2008

  • In 787 Charlemagne issued to all the bishops and abbots of Francia an historic Capitulare de litteris colendis, or directive on the study of letters.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Penelopes, nebulones, Alcinoique, modo tot annos in academia insumpserint, et se pro togatis venditarint; lucri causa, et amicorum intercessu praesentantur; addo etiam et magnificis nonnunquam elogiis morum et scientiae; et jam valedicturi testimonialibus hisce litteris, amplissime conscriptis in eorum gratiam honorantur, abiis, qui fidei suae et existimationis jacturam proculdubio faciunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It is the circumconversioning of antelithual paganelles by a hugger-knut cramwell energuman, or the caecodedition of an absque — litteris puttagonnianne to the herreraism of a cabotinesque ex — ploser? —

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Quisquis litteris nostris electronicis notitiarum utaris atque nuntios Latinos invenire cupias, simpliciter ad hanc paginam quaesumus pergas.

    04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

  • Mere leisure, that is to say, intellect unoccupied in the service of the will, is not of itself sufficient: there must be a real superfluity of power, set free from the service of the will and devoted to that of the intellect; for, as Seneca says, otium sine litteris mors est et vivi hominis sepultura — illiterate leisure is a form of death,

    The Wisdom of Life 2004

  • "De pentagono Salomonis, Ars loquendi et intellige'di in lingua hebraica, De rebus metallicis by Roger of Hereford, Algebra by Al-Kuwarizmi, translated into Latin by Robertus Anglicus, the Punica of Silius Italicus, the Gesta francorum, De laudibus sanctae crucis by Rabanus Maurus, and Flavii Claudii Giordani de aetate mundi et hominis reservatis singulis litteris per singulos libros ab A usque ad Z," my master read.

    The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

  • Graecae litterae, historia litteris nostris, and studium litterarum.

    LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968

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