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“Varium et mutabile,” answered Raleigh, in a similar tone.
Kenilworth 2004
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Old Virgil's gibe at mankind's better half -- "varium et mutabile semper femina" -- might have been written of this fickle shape of rock and ice and vapor.
The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' John H. Williams
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I think it is our chief difficulty in appreciating the supposed greatness of VERGIL that he couldn't do any better than "Varium et mutabile semper."
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 Various
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East Indian society, far beyond all former loathing of fox-hunters and topers in Wales, whose green mountains now became (conformably to the nature, "_semper varium et mutabile_," of the melancholic) the very idols of his romantic regrets and fondest memory.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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The students feel this a little, but they find a solace in quoting Plebs plebis, or Semper mutabile, or some such other classic witticism.
Chapter V 1917
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Dominie Sampsan left her presence altogether crestfallen, and, as he shut the door, could not help muttering the varium et mutabile of Virgil.
Chapter XV 1917
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"_Varium et mutabile semper_," was written, however, not of the sea but of woman.
Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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She is of that light unreflecting class, of that light unreflecting sex: _varium semper et mutabile_.
What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 Various 1914
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In Helianthemum the capsule has been described as unilocular or trilocular; and in H. mutabile, Une lame, plus ou moins large, setend entre le pericarpe et le placenta.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909
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Sed si diuinitas in humanitatem translata est, factum est, quod credi nefas est, ut humanitate inmutabili substantia permanente diuinitas uerteretur et quod passibile atque mutabile naturaliter exsisteret, id inmutabile permaneret, quod uero inmutabile atque inpassibile naturaliter creditur, id in rem mutabilem uerteretur.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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