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Habicht, x.p. vi., refers to the following: — Historia decem Vezirorum et filii regis Azad – Bacht insertis XIII. aliis narrationibus, in usum tironum Cahirensem, edid.
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Puzzling over the issue of the child's faith, Innocent III took this concept of the child's potential, or future, and incorporated that into a distinction between two types of faith, fides in usum and fides in habitum.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Serica quando venerint in usum planissime non acio: suspicor tamen in
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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[23] the classics will soon by published Lucan [24] particularly I suppose in usum republicæ.
Letter 34 1792
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In this liturgical Latin the requirements demanded by Hilary for the style of the Christian exegete are realized to the full: Non enim secundum sermonis nostri usum promiscuam in his oportet esse facilitatem: "There is no place here for the loose facility of the colloquial language" (In Ps. 13.1).
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Well, ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia, okay?
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In both cases the "debunkers" may have been wrong about principles and may have forgotten the maxim, abusus non tollit usum* but in both cases they were pretty right about matter of fact.
Archive 2008-02-01 Arevanye 2008
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In both cases the "debunkers" may have been wrong about principles and may have forgotten the maxim, abusus non tollit usum* but in both cases they were pretty right about matter of fact.
Family Life Arevanye 2008
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History is of two kinds — there is the official history taught in schools, a lying compilation ad usum delphini; and there is the secret history which deals with the real causes of events — a scandalous chronicle.
Eve and David 2007
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History is of two kinds — there is the official history taught in schools, a lying compilation ad usum delphini; and there is the secret history which deals with the real causes of events — a scandalous chronicle.
Eve and David 2007
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