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  • Angelus per superbiam separatus a Deo, qui in veritate non stetit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [263] Si foret in terris rideret Democritus, seu, &c. A satirical Roman in his time, thought all vice, folly, and madness were all at full sea, [264] Omne in praecipiti vitium stetit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Usque ad duram matrem trepanari feci, et per mensam aperte stetit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hanc ubi conspicatus est Cymon, baculo innixus, immobilis stetit, et mirabundus, &c. 5505.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • If this were the worst of this passion, it were more tolerable, [1738] but it ruins and subverts whole towns, [1739] cities, families, and kingdoms; Nulla pestis humano generi pluris stetit, saith Seneca, de

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Post has itaque Imperatoris defuncti miseras exequias, nullus omnino audebit de ipso loqui coram vxoribus et filijs, et propinquis, sed nec nominare, quia per hoc putarent derogari paci, et quieti illius, qua non dubitant eum dominari, in maiori satis gloria Paradisi quam hic stetit.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Versus locum vbi hoc brachium exit de mari est late terræ planities, in quâ antiquitus stetit Troia

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Nicholaus, ac per Myrrheam vbi stetit Ephesus, vbi nascuntur fortia vina valdè, deinde ad Insulam Cretæ, hinc Coos postea Lango, vndè

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Fuimus autem ibi vsque ad festum Beati Bartholomæi, in quo maxima multitudo conuenit, et contra mendiem versis vultibus stetit.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Hoc templum non ducitur stare in eodem loco vbi templum Dei stetit in tempore Christi, quo post resurrectionem a Romanis destructo, istud longo post tempore

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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