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The philosophical maxim so much agitated, “Nemo ante obitum felix,” therefore, appears absolutely false in every sense; and if it signifies that a happy man may die an unhappy death, it signifies nothing of consequence.
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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
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Et post eius obitum sexdecem militibus eius nominis Tilney h鎟editas illa successiu� obuenit, quorum vnus post alium semper habitabat apud Boston pr鎑ictum; dum fratris senioris h鎟editas h鎟edi generali deuoluta est, qu� nupta est Iohanni duci Norfolci�.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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D [= u] domini nostri regis obitum separatim plangimus
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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_Epicedium in obitum Thoma Rhodi_; _Basia, sive Strena ad Jacobum Hayum_;
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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"In piam et perpetuam memoriam Johannis Harvardii, annis fere ducentis post obitum ejus peractis, Academiae quae est Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum alumni, ne diutius vir de literis nostris optime meritus sine monumento quanivis humili jaceret, hunc lapidem ponendum curaverunt."
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 Various
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Saltem ut esset, quo referret obitum domini servulus.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Nemo ante obitum beatus est [72] — that is to say, they knew death to be the beginning of eternal and essential happiness?
Pens��es 1623-1662 1944
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Romans, i.e., the "cessiones post obitum", donations which the donor bound himself not to retract, but which took effect only on his death.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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De Luca says, bore titles that were enigmatical and sibyllic, as, for example, the prefect of the per obitum, the prefect of the concessum, the cashier of the componenda, an officer of the missis, and the like.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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