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  • Oculis se privavit, ut melius contemplationi operam daret, sublimi vir ingenio, profundae cogitationis, &c. 23.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui non ex sublimi despiciant inferiores, nec ut bestias conculcent sibi subditos auctoritatis nomini, confisi, &c. 644.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • † [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.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • 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

  • ( "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

  • 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

  • Salmasius alone was not unworthy sublimi flagello.

    Quotation, &c. 1908

  • 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.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Doctrina de sublimi hoc praedestinationis mysterio non sine summa cura et prudentia tractari debet,: [11298] 1

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • 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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