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Et cum diabolus et daemones tote vagentur in orbe, &c.] 83 Fleury Discours sur l’Hist.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Oh pequeño emperador sin orbe, conquistador sin patria, mínimo tigre de salón, nupcial sultán del cielo de las tejas eróticas, el viento del amor en la intemperie reclamas cuando pasas
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008
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Quid toto terrarum orbe communius? quae civitas, quod oppidum, quae familia vacat amatorum exemplis?
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Jul. Caesar la Galla, that Italian philosopher, in his physical disputation with Galileis de phenomenis in orbe lunae, cap.
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Hence the common maxim, Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.
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Nonne Romani sine Deo vestro regnant et fruuntur orbe toto, et vos et Deos vestros captivos tenent, &c. Minutius
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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.
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I omit those French massacres, Sicilian evensongs, [306] the Duke of Alva's tyrannies, our gunpowder machinations, and that fourth fury, as [307] one calls it, the Spanish inquisition, which quite obscures those ten persecutions, [308] — — — saevit toto Mars impius orbe.
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Toto divisos orbe — always separated from the people in the midst of whom we are.
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Causas hujus incrementi varias prodidere; sed maxime probabiles duas: Etefiarum eo tempore ex adverso flantium repercussum, ultro in ora acto mari: aut imbres Æthiopiæ æstivos, iisdem Etesiis nubila illò ferentibus ex reliquo orbe.
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