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  • Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem.

    Latin Quotations | Impact Lab 2007

  • I am contented with my fortunes, spectator e longinquo, and love Neptunum procul a terra spectare furentem: he is ambitious, and not satisfied with his: but what [3944] gets he by it? to have all his life laid open, his reproaches seen: not one of a thousand but he hath done more worthy of dispraise and animadversion than commendation; no better means to help this than to be private.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Tigellinus did towards Burrhus, Se non diversas spes, sed incolumitatem imperatoris simpliciter spectare.

    The Essays 2007

  • Ista libenter et magna cum voluptate spectare soleo.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Exultauimus inquam, & tota mente magnificenti� vestr� assurreximus, id vobis in sincero cordis affectu respondentes, quod quicquid ad honorem vestrum spectare nouerimus, pro posse nostro effectui mancipare parati sumus.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Let not my statement that the Aetolians and Eleans are at war alarm you: engagements will take place off the stage yonder. nam hoc paene iniquomst, comico choragio conari desubito agere nos tragoediam. proin si quis pugnam expectat, litis contrahat: valentiorem nactus adversarium si erit, ego faciam ut pugnam inspectet non bonam, adeo ut spectare postea omnis oderit.

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

  • For the Emperor, says Suetonius, _perraro praesidere, ceterum accubans, parvis primum foraminibus, deinde toto podio adaperto, spectare consuerat_.

    Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Igitur, cum de Scripturae sensu et interpretatione, aut loci alicujus, aut sententiae quae in ea contineatur controversia oritur, aut cum de collapsae disciplinae emendations agitur in ecelesia, spectare debemus non tam quid homines qui nos antecesserunt dixerint aut fecerint, quam quid perpetuo sibi consentiens Spiritus Sanctus in Scripturis loquatur; praeterea, quid: [11484] 1

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Scripturae sensu et interpretatione, aut loci alicujus, aut sententiae quae in ea contineatur controversia oritur, aut cum de collapsae disciplinae emendations agitur in ecelesia, spectare debemus non tam quid homines qui nos antecesserunt dixerint aut fecerint, quam quid perpetuo sibi consentiens Spiritus Sanctus in Scripturis loquatur; praeterea, quid Christus ipse fecerit aut fieri jusserit: illud enim omnes uno fatentur ore, Spiritum Dei (qui et unitatis item est spiritus) nunquam secum pugnare.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Nor will the argument be at all impeached by observing, that one Being may be made to feel the pleasure of ease and security by seeing others subjected to suffering and distress; for that assumes the infliction of misery on those others; it is "_alterius_ spectare laborem" that we are supposing to be sweet; and this is still partial evil.

    The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham Henry Peter Brougham Brougham and Vaux 1823

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