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  • (A.D. 500 — 1500,) quorum potissima pars nunc primum in lucem prodit, &c., xxviii.vols. in folio, Milan, 1723 — 1738,

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light.

    Think Progress » McCain’s Hypocrisy On Devil Comments: Chavez Was ‘Despicable,’ Refuses To Condemn Falwell 2006

  • The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light.

    Think Progress » Red Cross financial aid Scott Brown voted to kill now assisting Massachusetts relief efforts in Haiti. 2010

  • With its self-stated aim of uniting “merriment and decency”, Addison and Steele's publication was the mouthpiece of the Enlightenment (indeed, its tagline read ex fumo dare lucem [“to turn the darkness to light”]).

    Looking back to 1711 2008

  • [5067] Castilio noteth, in the night, Diem ut glis odit, taedarum lucem super omnia mavult, she hateth the day like a dormouse, and above all things loves torches and candlelight, and if she must come abroad in the day, she covets, as [5068] in a mercer's shop, a very obfuscate and obscure sight.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hic in lucem prodire timet, tenebrasque quaerit, contra, ille caliginosa fugit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A great inconvenience comes by variety of dishes, which causeth the precedent distemperature, [2937] than which (saith Avicenna) nothing is worse; to feed on diversity of meats, or overmuch, Sertorius-like, in lucem caenare, and as commonly they do in Muscovy and

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui ♄ et ♂ habet, alterum in culmine, alterum imo coelo, cum in lucem venerit, melancholicus erit, a qua sanebitur, si ☿ illos irradiarit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Opera omnia ¦ haetenus edita auctor ante obitum recensuit ¦ posthuma vero, totius naturae explicationem complectentia, in lucem nunc primum prodeunt ex bibliotheca ¦ Henrici-Ludovici-Haberti Mon-Morii ¦ [Accessit Samuelis Sorberii praefatio, in qua de vita et moribus Petri Gassendi disseritur.]

    Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

  • -----, 1591, Nova de universis philosophia in qua aristotelica methodo non per motum sed per lucem et lumina ad primam causam ascenditur.

    Francesco Patrizi Purnell, Fred 2004

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