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  • Highlanders into every story, as if you were going back again, velis et remis, into the old days of Jacobitism.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere.

    The Essays 2007

  • Novi ingenium mulierum, nolunt, ubi velis, ubi nolis capiunt ultro.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quia in Adam omnes peccaverunt et omnes pactum illud cum Adam factum irritum fecerunt, secundum Dominicam rationem, etiam si velis eam referre ad pactum circumcisionis, quia nichilominus, immo magis ad pactum prohibitionis pertinet, cum Adam factum, cum specialiter dicatur quod omnes infantes in Adam peccaverunt, et non similiter dicatur de Habraam. back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Tantamque victoriam amentia hominum consequuti sunt, ut si colligere in unum velis, universum orbem istis scelestibus spiritibus subjectum fuisse invenies: Usque ad Salvaloris adventum hominum caede perniciosissimos daemones placabant, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • He assumes that where I can do nothing I ought not to will anything ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis.

    Grotius, Gassendi, Geulinex, Gioberti Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • He assumes that where I can do nothing I ought not to will anything ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Sed priusquam longius procedamus, libet hic referre fabulam perlepidam, huius opinionis infernalis originem & fundamentum: Nempe cuidam extraneorum naui Islandiam relinquenti & turgidis velis citissimo cursu iter suum rectà legenti, factam obuiam alteram similiter impigro cursu, sed contra vim tempestatum, velis & remis nitentem: cuius præfectus rogatus, quinam essent?

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Thesei, cum velis atri coloris, ex Creta redeuntem cerneret, perijsse filium ratus, vitam in proximis vndis finiuit.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Sed priusquam longius procedamus, libet hic referre fabulam perlepidam, huius opinionis infernalis originem & fundamentum: Nempe cuidam extraneorum naui Islandiam relinquenti & turgidis velis citissimo cursu iter suum rect� legenti, factam obuiam alteram similiter impigro cursu, sed contra vim tempestatum, velis & remis nitentem: cuius pr鎓ectus rogatus, quinam essent?

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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