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  • So I returned pondering the matter, when, behold, there arose from one of the corners of the house, a Vox et praeterea nihil, saying,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Leo Afer.l. 1. solo camelorum lacte contenti, nil praeterea deliciarum ambiunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Non est ornamentum virile concinnitas: as he said of a nightingale, — — — vox es, praeterea nihil, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Third, and chief reason, that try how you might, you could scarcely help supposing, on looking at his face, that your eyes were not far from a well-finished mind, instead of the well-finished skin et praeterea nihil, which is by rights the Mark of the Row.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • Its object was to place before the reader the broad outlines of a country whose name was known to “every schoolboy,” whilst it was a vox et praeterea nihil, even to the learned, before the spring of 1877.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Vidi praeterea dum somniarem, et ecce, septem spicae ascendebant in culmo uno plenae et pulchrae.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Dixerunt praeterea, Unus venit ad perigrinandum, et judicabit judicando? nunc magis malefaciemus tibi quam ipsis.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Videns praeterea Esau quod malae filiae Chenaan in oculis Ishac patris sui:

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • * Id statuendum est, authoritatem humanam et incitamenta omnia illa praedicta, sive alia quaecunque adhibita ab eo qui proponit fidem, non esse sufficientes causas ad credendum ut credere tenemur; sed praeterea opus esse interiori causa efficiente, id est, Dei speciali auxilio moventis ad credendum: [5529] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * An pro tempore illa bona erant, flendo petere etiam quod noxie daretur; indignari acriter non subjectis hominibus, liberis et majoribus, hisque a quibus genitus est; multisque praeterea prudentioribus, non ad nutum voluntatis obtemperantibus, feriendo nocere niti, quantum potest, quia non obeditur imperiis quibus perniciose obediretur?

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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