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  • Dive Grabovi, quicquid tui sacrificii vitiatum est, peccatum est, peremptum est, fraudatum est, demptum est, tui sacrificii visum invisum vitium est, dive Grabovi, quicquid ius sit, hoc bove opimo piaculo piando ....

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • "Nothing won't do but to be at it from the very beginning," said the superior, with a toss of his powdered head; "fight after it as much as ever they like, wear the best of gownds, and go to the fustest of boarding-schools -- though they plays ever so well on the piando, and talks Italian like a reg'lar Frenchman -- nothing won't do -- _there's_ the boiled mutton and turnips -- shocking wulgarity!

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

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