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Et ligant bigas cum bobus vel camelis vnam post aliam: et sedebit muliercula in anteriori minans bouem, et omnes aliæ pari gressu sequentur.
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Et ligant bigas cum bobus vel camelis vnam post aliam: et sedebit muliercula in anteriori minans bouem, et omnes ali� pari gressu sequentur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The evidence of the three heavenly witnesses would now be rejected in any court of justice: but prejudice is blind, authority is deaf, and our vulgar bibles will ever be polluted by this spurious text, “sedet aeternumqne sedebit.”
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994
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Perryian pen, and on Bath-post, and that he was so seen by Mr Turner in his own peculiar perspective-defying telescope -- for so "_sedet, eternumque sedebit_," in the year 1843.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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Of him I may say, in the fine words of Virgil, "Sedet aeternumque sedebit."
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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The party isn't sanguine; they look upon Robb as an unassailable; _sedet in aeter-numque sedebit_.
Our Friend the Charlatan George Gissing 1880
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Christ on His throne _sedet aternumque sedebit_: the saints around him glitter with their pitiless uncompromising eyes and wooden gestures, as if twelve centuries had not passed over them, and they were nightmares only dreamed last night, and rooted in a sick man's memory.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Christ on His throne _sedet aternumque sedebit_: the saints around him glitter with their pitiless uncompromising eyes and wooden gestures, as if twelve centuries had not passed over them, and they were nightmares only dreamed last night, and rooted in a sick man's memory.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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I suppose Lord Dawton's representative, whose place you are to supply, is like Theseus, sedet eternumque sedebit.
Pelham — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I suppose Lord Dawton's representative, whose place you are to supply, is like Theseus, sedet eternumque sedebit.
Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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