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Lessing had responded by declaring his sympathy for Spinoza, and Jacobi had thereupon urged him to perform a salto mortale – a spiritual somersault in virtue of which, through an act of faith, Lessing would simply declare himself for a personal God, and for freedom, and thereby rejoin common sense.

Archive 2009-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

Lessing had responded by declaring his sympathy for Spinoza, and Jacobi had thereupon urged him to perform a salto mortale – a spiritual somersault in virtue of which, through an act of faith, Lessing would simply declare himself for a personal God, and for freedom, and thereby rejoin common sense.

Jacobi and Heehs Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

If, as Peter de Ledesmo cas.cons. holds, every kiss a man gives his wife after marriage, be mortale peccatum, a mortal sin, or that of [5120] Hierome, Adulter est quisquis in uxorem suam ardentior est amator; or that of Thomas Secund. quaest.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Although Rehberg agreed with Jacobi that all metaphysics ends in Spinozism, he did not take this as proof for pantheism, still less as reason for a salto mortale into theism.

August Wilhelm Rehberg Beiser, Fred 2007

The only way to save oneself from such atheism and fatalism, Jacobi suggested, was to take a “salto mortale”, a leap of faith in a personal God and freedom.

August Wilhelm Rehberg Beiser, Fred 2007

Granted: and there are things yet more unfortunate than this; but I will answer you: “Sors tua mortalis, non est mortale quod optas.” — “Mortal thy fate, thy wishes those of gods.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

According to Jacobi's report of his conversation with Lessing, after a disquisition on his part regarding the devastating effects of a thought based on the demands of reason alone, and upon Lessing's apparent declaration of sympathy for Spinoza, Jacobi had urged upon the latter to perform a salto mortale (Jacobi, 1785: 17), i.e., a kind of jump, heels over head, that would redress his position.

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi di Giovanni, George 2005

That except this crueltie be stayed by your wisdome, we wilbe compelled to tak the sweard of just defence aganis all that shall persew us for the mater of religioun, and for our conscience saik; whiche awght not, nor may nott be subject to mortale creatures, farder than be God's worde man be able to prove that he hath power to command us.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Lorde of all realmes, and thy Grace and all mortale Kingis ar bott onlye servandis unto that onlie immortall Prince Christ Jesus, etc.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

A. di, precor, hunc iuuenem, quem uos (neque fallor) ab ipso aethere misistis, post longa reducite uitae tempora uel potius mortale resoluite pensum et date perpetuo caelestia fila metallo: 140 sit deus et nolit pensare palatia caelo!

A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912