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  • Omni vita felix, ab omni periculo immunis (which by the way Pausanias held impossible;) the

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Omnium felicissimus, et locupletissimus, &c. incarceratus saepe adolescentiam periculo mortis habuit, solicitudinis et discriminis plenam, &c. 3817.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Jucundiores amores, qui cum periculo habentur, like stolen venison, still the sweetest is that love which is most difficultly attained: they like better to hunt by stealth in another man's walk, than to have the fairest course that may be at game of their own.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Unde monemur, quam insipidum scriptis auctoribus credere, quod hic suo didicit periculo.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ideo Lycurgus, &c. non quod ipse superstitiosus, sed quod videret mortales paradoxa facilius amplecti, nec res graves audere sine periculo deorum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Alex. praesertim ineunte periculo, ubi res prope adsunt terribiles.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 2: Delaborde, 1: 111: "Ad tactum clavi et spinee corone et brachii sancti Simeonis per totum ventrem pueri in modum crucis, eodem die ab imminenti periculo est liberatus; et pater suus Philippus rex in transmarinis partibus existens, eodem die et eadem hora, a consimili morbo curatus."

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

  • Let me then recommend this principle of vanity to you; act upon it meo periculo; I promise you it will turn to your account.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Tempore autem sui cursus nullus appropinquare praesumit, præ strepitu eius et motu: sed tempore quietis aditur sine periculo vitæ.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Et in conseruando sum diligentes et acres, vt nemo audeat de facili propinquare, nisi quod interdum ab illis pausantibus; seu ab æstu se occultantibus, aliqui non sine periculo in dromedarijs et veredarijs rapiunt, vel furantur.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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