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  • Invidia haec diabolica est: invidia hac mors intravit in orbem terrarum. an putat parvulos Salvatore non egere, quia parvuli sunt?

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

  • Pompeius, disposito per omnes maris recessus navium praesidio, brevi terrarum orbem illa peste liberavit; praedones multis locis victos fudit; eosdem in deditionem acceptos in urbibus et agris procul a mari collocavit.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Now that’s how you deal with pirates. 2009

  • “Opiferque per orbem dicor,” said Henbane Dwining.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Tantamque victoriam amentia hominum consequuti sunt, ut si colligere in unum velis, universum orbem istis scelestibus spiritibus subjectum fuisse invenies: Usque ad Salvaloris adventum hominum caede perniciosissimos daemones placabant, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Omnes sibi famam quaerunt et quovis modo in orbem spargi contendunt, ut novae alicujus rei habeantur auctores.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Intelligentia quae, movet orbem mediante coelo, &c. Intelligences do all: and after a long discourse of miracles done of old, si haec daemones possint, cur non et intelligentiae, coelorum motrices?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hunnorum, et Baronem Skradinum; Encyclopaediam tuam, et orbem disciplinarum omnibus provinciis antefero.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Romae extinxit, et omnes ubique per orbem terrae religiones, unum hoc studens ut solus deus coleretur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Graecanicam saltantes Pyrrhicam, dispositis ordinationibus, decoros ambitus inerrabant, nunc in orbem flexi, nunc in obliquam seriem connexi, nunc in quadrum cuneati, nunc inde separati, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Tam hieme quam aestate intrepide sulcant Oceanum, et duo illorum duces non minore audacia quam fortuna totius orbem terrae circumnavigarunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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