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  • Egypt another paradise, now barbarous and desert, and almost waste, by the despotical government of an imperious Turk, intolerabili servitutis jugo premitur ([483] one saith) not only fire and water, goods or lands, sed ipse spiritus ab insolentissimi victoris pendet nutu, such is their slavery, their lives and souls depend upon his insolent will and command.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Those in which letters and arts have flourished have been too much admired, because the hidden object of their culture has not been fathomed, and their fatal effects not taken into account. "ldque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset."

    The Social Contract 2002

  • Venetæ ‡, aviti sanguinis ingenti splendore claræ, sed Virtutum nobilitate longe clariori, piissimum/hoc Christianæ Fidei monumentum, exiguum obsequentissimæ servitutis suæ signum, quod ex pictura/_Jacobi de Ponte_ delineavit, et exſculpsit, generossimæ

    John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

  • Too much admiration has been given to those in which letters and arts have flourished; and men have not sufficiently considered the hidden object of their culture, or their fatal effect: Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.

    The Social Contract Jean Jacques Rousseau 1947

  • Satius me queri illo modo servitutem: hodie qui fuerim liber, cum nunc potivit pater servitutis, his qui verna natus est queritur.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Judaeorum juventutem per speciem sacramenti in provincias gravioris caeli distribuit, reliquos gentis eiusdem vel similia sectantes urbe summovit, sub poena perpetuae servitutis nisi obtemperassent: [1612] 1

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • "Animadvertendum est non in solo rerum corporearum nitore atque pompa, sed etiam in ipsis sordibus lutosis esse posse jactantiam, et eo periculosiorem quo sub nomine servitutis Dei decipit."

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • : "Christus naturalia legis (which are summed up in the commandment of love) extendit et implevit ... plenitudo et extensio ... necesse fuit, auferri quidem vincula servitutis, superextendi vero decreta libertatis".

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • Sic enim Apostolus inquit (Gal.v. 1): 'Qua libertate Christus nos liberavit, in ea state, et nolite iterum jugo servitutis subjici.'

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Decalogi praefatio hisce verbis continetur [Ego sum Dominus Deus tuus, qui te eduxi e terra AEgypti, e domo servitutis].

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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