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Oculis se privavit, ut melius contemplationi operam daret, sublimi vir ingenio, profundae cogitationis, &c. 23.
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Qui non ex sublimi despiciant inferiores, nec ut bestias conculcent sibi subditos auctoritatis nomini, confisi, &c. 644.
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† [Note: He often indulged himself in every species of pleasantry and wit.] and, in another, sed accipitris more e conspectu aliquando astantium sublimi se protrahens volatu, in praedam miro impetu descendebat.
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So likewise the last despairing cry of Jason, as Medea sails victoriously away in her magic car -- per alta vade spatia sublimi aethere, testare nullos esse qua veheris deos
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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( "In sublimi", 20 Sept., 1839) formally recorded the approval of the institute and its rule, and appointed Rosmini provost general for life.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Again Pius IX by the Bull "In hac sublimi" (23 August, 1871) allowed a majority of the cardinals to dispense with the traditional enclosure.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Salmasius alone was not unworthy sublimi flagello.
Quotation, &c. 1908
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Doctrina de sublimi hoc praedestinationis mysterio non sine summa cura et prudentia tractari debet, [1015] quo nimirum homines, dum voluntati Dei in verbo ejus revelatae advertant animos, eique debitam exhibeant obedientiam, de efficaci sua vocatione certiores facti, ad aeternae suae electionis assurgere possint certitudinem.
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Doctrina de sublimi hoc praedestinationis mysterio non sine summa cura et prudentia tractari debet,: [11298] 1
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I observed, that the character of Nicholson, in this book resembled that of Burke: for it is said, in one place, 'in omnes lusos & jocos se saepe resolvebat [596];' and, in another, 'sed accipitris more e conspectu aliquando astantium sublimi se protrahens volatu, in praedam miro impetu descendebat [597]'.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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