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  • Nescire quod antea quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum; quid enimest aetas hominis nisi memoria rerum nostrarum cum superiorum aetate contexerit?

    Latin Quotations | Impact Lab 2007

  • Ascendit a terra in coelum, iterumque descendit in terram, et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum.

    cytokinesis Diary Entry cytokinesis 2008

  • It was written, superiorum praecepto (at the command of his superiors) when he was only twenty-seven and is a theological achievement of the first rank.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • But at that nunnery, it seems, _Fair Rosamond_ remained for some time _permissu superiorum_ as, I suppose, a lady-boarder, not assuming the habit of even a postulant, much less compelled, as a novice, to be shorn of her hair, and so to appear in the final Transformation Scene as "The Fair One _without_ the golden locks."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 Various 1876

  • Ecclesiae Ephesi scribe; Quod si de Angelo superiorum coe lorum, et non de praepositis Ecclesiae vellet intelligi, non consequenter diceret:

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • * Angelo Ecclesiae Ephesi scribe; Quod si de Angelo superiorum coe lorum, et non de praepositis Ecclesiae vellet intelligi, non consequenter diceret: Sed habeo adversum te, quod caritatem primam reliquisti.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • He believed as devoutly in the powers of a witch as did then -- and does now, for aught Italian literature, _e permissu superiorum_, shows -- the Pope of Rome.

    Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Octavianum labantem disciplinam, incurid superiorum principum, ipse retinuit_.

    The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Hi vero si interrogarentur an velint omnibus hoc onus imponere, ut mori praeoptent, quam ullo casu vim superiorum armis arcere, nescio an velle se sint responsuri.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • Whereunto I answer with Didoclavius: (392) _Infirmitatem in doctiores cadere posse, neminem negaturum puto, et superiorum temporum historia de dimicatione inter doctores ecclesiæ, ob ceremonias, idipsum probat.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

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