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  • Multis ad salutem animae profuit corporis aegritudo,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nil Publius Scipio profuit, nil ei Laelius, nil Furius,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I conclude, therefore, of this and all other medicines, as Thucydides of the plague at Athens, no remedy could be prescribed for it, Nam quod uni profuit, hoc aliis erat exitio: there is no Catholic medicine to be had: that which helps one, is pernicious to another.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hieme pluviosa, regnante dolores renovantur; tametsi tempore sereno equitatio profuit.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • At multum mihi profuit, inquit peregrinus, carpum amento extrahens, e quo pependit acinaces: Loculo manum inseruit; et magna cum urbanitate, pilei parte anteriore tacta manu sinistra, ut extendit dextram, militi florinum dedit et processit.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • At multum mihi profuit, inquit peregrinus, carpum amento extrahens, e quo pependit acinaces: Loculo manum inseruit; et magna cum urbanitate, pilei parte anteriore tacta manu sinistra, ut extendit dextram, militi florinum dedit et processit.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Genus dicatum Jano Huigenio Linschotenio, geographo, navarcho, itineratori seculi XVI., qui historiae naturalis, imprimis vero geographiae et rei nauticae progressui eximie profuit.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • Cum itaque dicatur Salvator pro totius mundi redemptione crucifixus, propter veram humanæ naturæ susceptionem, potest tamen dici pro his tantum crucifixus quibus mors ipsius profuit.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • Cum itaque dicatur Salvator pro totius mundi redemptione crucifixus, propter veram humanæ naturæ susceptionem, potest tamen dici pro his tantum crucifixus quibus mors ipsius profuit.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • Cum itaque dicatur Salvator pro totius mundi redemptione crucifixus, propter veram humanæ naturæ susceptionem, potest tamen dici pro his tantum crucifixus quibus mors ipsius profuit.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

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