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  • Oggi, 3 luglio 2009, il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI ha ricevuto in Udienza privata S:E.

    Cardinal Caffarra orders Holy Communion on the tongue only 2009

  • P. G. Molmenti, Storia di Venezia nella vita privata, Turin, 1880.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Frati, La vita privata di Bologna dal secolo XIII al XVII, Rome, 1968.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • 'Tis too frequent with noblemen to be dishonest; Pielas, probitas, fides, privata bona sunt, as [6083] he said long since, piety, chastity, and such like virtues are for private men: not to be much looked after in great courts: and which Suetonius of the good princes of his time, they might be all engraven in one ring, we may truly hold of chaste potentates of our age.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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    The Balkanization of BitTorrent 2007

  • Ipsi Cyrenenses privata sorte inter Ægyptios ac Poenos diu egerunt; dein cum Carthaginiensibus de agrorum finibus magnum ac diuturnum bellum gesserunt.

    The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

  • He created a new treasury in addition to the fiscus (the original imperial treasury) and the patrimonium Caesaris (originally the ruler's private property, then crown property), namely the res privata, his personal funds, which were swelled by confiscations.

    f. The Third Century 2001

  • Is siquidem, et dum in aula esset, nullo non contumeliae genere in proceres et gynaeceum etiam aulicum usus fuerat, fiducia pugnacitatis qua se terribilem cunctis reddiderat; sed etiam postquam se ad comitatum Andini receperat, dum Andegavi arcem toto illo tractu munitissimam et urbi populosae impositam teneret, oppidanis et toti provinciae gravis ob crebras exactiones, quas privata auctoritate, non consulto plerumque Andino ipso, faciebat, summum omnium odium in se concitaverat.

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • There can be little doubt that we find the sources of these words in such a phrase as that of Cicero -- "Sunt autem privata nulla natura" [2] -- and in the Stoic tradition which is represented in one of

    An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

  • Tantum illud vereor, ne quos privata amicitia Jugurthae parum cognita transversos agat, quos ego audio maxima ope niti, ambire, fatigare [104] vos singulos, ne quid de absente incognita causa statuatis, fingere me verba et fugam simulare, cui licuerit in regno manere.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

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