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  • Communis quoque populus, dum festus diebus intendere deberent deuotioni in templo, currit in hortis, in spectaculis, in tabernis vsque ad crapulam, et ebrietatem, et pinguia manducans et bibens, ac in bestiarum morem, luxuriam prauam exercens.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Communis quoque populus, dum festus diebus intendere deberent deuotioni in templo, currit in hortis, in spectaculis, in tabernis vsque ad crapulam, et ebrietatem, et pinguia manducans et bibens, ac in bestiarum morem, luxuriam prauam exercens.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Every word of this marks the degradation to which those monkish times would have made the sex submit, "velamina _concessa_ insipientiam earum!" and pretty well for men of the cloth of that day's make, to speak of women's "lasciviam et luxuriam," when, perhaps, the hypocritical mandate arose from nothing but a desire in the coelibatists themselves to get a sly peep at the neatly turned feet and ankles of the women.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

  • He disapproved of the higher education of women, 'propter istas quae litteris non ad sapientiam utuntur, sed ad luxuriam instruuntur.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • "Velamina etiam mulierum, quæ ad verecundiam designandam eis sunt concessa, sed nunc, per insipientiam earum, in lasciviam et luxuriam excreverunt, it immoderata longitudo superpelliccorum quibus pulverem trahunt, ad moderatum usum, sicut decet verecundiam sexus, per excommunicationis sententiam cohibeantur."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

  • * "Tum quia cupido divitiarum facit eus coacervari per fas et nefas; tum quia eadem ita mentem auro alligat ut nequeat cogitare de coelo; tum quia divitiae sunt materia et stimulus ad superbiam, gulam, luxuriam, omniaque scelera."

    The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

  • "Tum quia cupido divitiarum facit eus coacervari per fas et nefas; tum quia eadem ita mentem auro alligat ut nequeat cogitare de coelo; tum quia divitiae sunt materia et stimulus ad superbiam, gulam, luxuriam, omniaque scelera."

    The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

  • Utraque parte acutus est, quia qui foris in nobis amputat luxuriam carnis, intus resecat malitiam cordis.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • Utraque parte acutus est, quia qui foris in nobis amputat luxuriam carnis, intus resecat malitiam cordis.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • Almighty to St. Bridget against those who have "ornamenta indecentia in capitibus et pedibus, et reliquis membris, ad provocandum luxuriam et irritandum deum, in strictis vestibus, ostensione mamillarum, unctionibus," &c.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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