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  • Ser. de gula; fames amica virginitati est, inimica lasciviae: saturitas vero castitatem perdit, et nutrit illecebras.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And last of all, that which crucifies us most, is our own folly, madness (quos Jupiter perdit, dementat; by subtraction of his assisting grace God permits it) weakness, want of government, our facility and proneness in yielding to several lusts, in giving way to every passion and perturbation of the mind: by which means we metamorphose ourselves and degenerate into beasts.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The last and greatest cause of this malady, is our own conscience, sense of our sins, and God's anger justly deserved, a guilty conscience for some foul offence formerly committed, — [6715] O miser Oreste, quid morbi te perdit?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Tryphena, amor me perdit, neque malum hoc amplius sustinere possum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Multos conjugium decepit, res alioqui salutaris et necessaria, eo quod caeco ejus amore decepti, divini amoris et gloriae studium in universum abjecerunt; plurimos cibus et potus perdit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Aegypti vsque ad Alexandriam, ibíque se perdit in mare.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Aegypti vsque ad Alexandriam, ib韖ue se perdit in mare.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • L'auteur d'un grand atlas se perdit un jour dans un bois.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • Haec mihi Cimmerio bis tertia ducitur aestas litore pellitos inter agenda Getas. ecquos tu silices, ecquod, carissime, ferrum duritiae confers, Albinouane, meae? gutta cauat lapidem, consumitur anulus usu, 5 atteritur pressa uomer aduncus humo. tempus edax igitur praeter nos omnia perdit; cessat duritia mors quoque uicta mea. albinouano _B2_ albino uano _H2_ albinouano amico suo _M_ ad albino uanom _F_ ad albinouanum _I2_ hanc epistulam mittit albinouano _L_ | | 1

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _Thea infusum, nervo musculove ranæ admotum, vires motices minuit perdit.

    A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves Hugh Smith

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