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  • Original:Je cognois, par experience, cette condition de nature, qui ne peut soustenir une vehemente premeditation et laborieuse.

    languagehat.com: STIMULATING CONVERSATION. 2005

  • La Vampiresa y quien se ha unido a ella, sólo por un deseo, el más vehemente de todos ... la Inmortalidad.

    www.blogalaxia.com Directorio y Buscador de Blogs Latinos 2009

  • Ji Uium primo reeipit, deinde Mar - fyam, portauam hic Apameae fub - vrbium vehemente ac praecipite fluxu percurrit, hinc per Phrvgiam fluit, deinde - Gariam 1 Lvdtt di - ftcrminat apud campum, quiMattD - driua dicitur, obliquus tt finuoiba, tiodtm tpud Cadt»* KniaqjbiMi t r 'S feparata, inter Miletnm te Prienei in m. irc exir.

    Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm cvm observationibvs antiqvariis geographicis chronologicis historicis criticis et passim cvm explicatione monogrammatvm edidit Io. Christophorvs Rasche 1785

  • Against whiche hee used manye vehemente inuectiues and termes, whiche Aulus Gellius omitteth, for that hee was loth to offend (when report therof should be bruted) the nice eares, and louing mindes of the matrones, and dames of that citie: knowing well that both they, and their successours, would not forget reprochefullie to combate with his spirite and shadowe, when they were not able (being preuented by earthly vermine) by anye meanes to impeche his corps, in tombe fast closed and buried.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • And as the dogge is borne to huntyng, the byrde to flyinge, the horse to runnyng, the oxe to plowynge, so man is borne to philosophy and honeste doinges: and as euery liuing thing lerneth very easly that, to the whiche he is borne, so man wyth verye lytle payne perceiueth the lernyng of vertue and honestye, to the whiche nature hath graffed certen vehemente seedes and principles: so that to the readinesse of nature, is ioyned the diligence of the teacher.

    The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

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