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_Noveram quosdam, qui se pulchrè expressisse genus illud cælestis hujus in dicendo viri sibi viderentur, si in clausulâ posuissent esse videatur.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Anglorum me nuper ad Dominum Regum Francorum nuntium distinasset, libri Legum venales Parisius oblati sunt mihi ab illo B. publico mangone librorum: qui cum ad opus cujusdam mei nepotis idoner viderentur conveni cum eo de pretio et eos apud venditorem dismittens, ei pretium numeravi; superveniente vero C.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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At quos hic commemorat Basilius, hi catholicae doctrinae bellum apertum in dixerant, et quamvis dissimilitudinis impietatem fugere viderentur, iisdem tamen, ac Anomoei, principiis stabant.
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Summo Pontifici ea quæ postulabat [Franciscus] ardua valde et quasi impossibilia viderentur infirmitate hominum sui temporis, exhortabatur eum, quod aliquem ordinem vel regulam de approbatis assumeret, at ipse se a Christo missum ad talem vitam et non aliam postulandam constanter affirmans, fixus in sua petitione permansit.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893
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Est operae pretium diligentiam majorum recordari, qui colonias sic idoneis in locis contra suspicionem periculi collocarunt, ut esse non oppida Italiae, sed propugnacula imperii viderentur.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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"Tanta religio," says Livy, [693] "et ea magna ex parte externa, civitatem incessit, _ut aut homines, aut dii repente alii viderentur facti_"; it seemed as if the old religious system, in spite of all its highly formalised apparatus of expiation, was being deliberately set aside.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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[_Orat. in Rullum_], "sic idoneis in locis contra suspicionem periculi collocarunt, ut esse non oppida Italiæ sed _propugnacula_ imperii viderentur."
The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Compare "Horum res gestas si qui auctores digni celebrassent, quam magnæ, quam admirabiles, quam veteribus illis similes viderentur."
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Turcæ in eo negotio occupatos nos videntes, similiter eas radices tractare & secare voluerunt: at cum summus esset æstus, & omnes sudore maderent, quicunque eam radicem manibus tractaverant sudoremque absterserant, aut faciem digitis scalpserant, tantam pruriginem iis locis quos attigerant postea senserunt, ut aduri viderentur.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Ultima fcjiicet hebdomadiS die» qua quis in lacem edi - tus eratj fata voeabantnr, quse fcriberenters quod eo die viderentur PatcK in totam ftatuere viiam, qua fortuna futurus quis encc.
Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793
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