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  • Truly, when, in my younger days, I was wont to hear that doctor in his lectures and other exercises, I did not think then I should have afterward found him called in question for want of skill to express himself and the sense of his mind in Latin, he having a readiness and dexterity in that language equal to any that ever I knew; neither yet am I convinced that his word penitus, upon which Mr Goodwin criticiseth (being commonly, as might by innumerable instances be made good, used to increase and make emphatical the import of the word wherewith it is associated), will evince any such meaning in his expression as is there intended by Mr Goodwin.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Deus, qui fundasti terram super stabilitatem suam, suscipe oblationes et preces populi tui: ac trementis terrae periculis penitus amotis, divinae tuae iracundiae terrores, in humanae salutis remedia converte; ut, qui de terra sunt, et in terram revertentur, gaudeant se fieri sancta conservatione caelestes.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • [S] ecundum antiquam consuetudinem, leguntur, quia et eorum qui conscripsere nomina penitus ignorantur, et ab infidelibus et idiotis superflua aut minus apta quam rei ordo fuerit esse putantur.

    Think Progress » It Takes More Than A Cabinet Post 2005

  • Negligebat oratoriam facultatem, et penitus aspernabatur ejus professores, quod linguam duntaxat, non autem mentem redderent eruditiorem.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 73: Matthaei Parisiensis Chronica majora, 2.558: "qui praestigio diabolico penitus infatuati, relictis patribus et matribus, nutricibus, et amicis universis, cantantes modo consimili quo eorum cantitabat paedagogus." back

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

  • Cuicunque potest per alimenta restitui sanitas, frugiendus est penitus usus medicamentorum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nociva Melancholia furiosos efficit, et quandoque penitus interficit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Oraculum est, vivida saepe ingenia, luxuriare hac et evanescere multosque sensum penitus amisisse.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sanguis amasiae, ebibitus omnem amoris sensum tollit: Faustinam Marci Aurelii uxorem, gladiatoris amore captam, ita penitus consilio Chaldaeorum liberatam, refert

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Invidia affligit homines adeo et corrodit, ut hi melancholici penitus fiant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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