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  • Nec praeter rationem mirum videri debet, si quis rem considerare velit, omnes eos vel saltem maximam partem, qui in hoc terrarum orbe res praestantiores aggressi sunt, atque inter caeteros aevi sui heroas excelluerunt, aut obscuro, aut abjecto loco editos, et prognatos fuisse abjectis parentibus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • His father Mercury, because he could leave him no wealth, taught him many fine tricks to get means, [1151] for he could drive away men's cattle, and if any pursued him, turn them into what shapes he would, and so did mightily enrich himself, hoc astu maximam praedam est adsecutus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Obloquutus est, probrumque tibi intulit quispiam, sive vera is dixerit, sive falsa, maximam tibi coronam texueris si mansuete convitium tuleris.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Certum est hujus herbae virtutem maximam et mirabilem esse, parumque distare a balsamo.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 30: Vacarius, 15.2: "Sed responsores quos quesisti et invenisti, in hoc, ut dicis, respondent quod maximam curam oportet eos habere ne patrem et matrem Dominus preveniat et puerum, antequam baptizetur, occidet." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Religio neglecta maximam pestem in civitatem infert, omnium scelerum fenestram aperit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Statim vt fratres suum martyrium compleuerunt, aer ita lucidus effectus est, quod omnes admirati sunt, et luna maximam claritatem ostendit.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Ab hoc loco per aliquas diætas, venitur ad huius regionis maximam vrbem Cansay, hoc est dicere ciuitatem coeli, imo de vniuerso orbe terrarum putatur hæc maxima Ciuitatum; nam eius circuitus 50. leucis est mensus, nec est facile dicere, quàm, compressè a quamplurimis populis inhabitatur.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Cum autem de terra illa reuerteretur Chingischam, defecerunt eis victualia, famemque patiebantur maximam.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Et per istum modum fratres maximam multitudinem baptizant, qui citò recidiuant ad idola pecorum: qui fratres continuò quasi stent cum illis, et illos informent.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

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