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  • Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, "vox populi vox dei", quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

    Latin Quotations | Impact Lab 2007

  • As for those places of Scripture which oppugn it, they will have spoken ad captum vulgi, and if rightly understood, and favourably interpreted, not at all against it; and as Otho Gasman, Astrol. cap.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A second cause is ignorance, and from thence contempt, successit odium in literas ab ignorantia vulgi; which [2051] Junius well perceived: this hatred and contempt of learning proceeds out of [2052] ignorance; as they are themselves barbarous, idiots, dull, illiterate, and proud, so they esteem of others.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Non a peritia sed ab ornatu et vulgi vocibus habemur excellentes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But certainly he is traduced; for his words are noble and divine: Non deos vulgi negare profanum; sed vulgi opiniones diis applicare profanum.

    The Essays 2007

  • And first to begin of politicians, it hath ever been a principal axiom with them to maintain religion or superstition, which they determine of, alter and vary upon all occasions, as to them seems best, they make religion mere policy, a cloak, a human invention, nihil aeque valet ad regendos vulgi animos ac superstitio, as [6386] Tacitus and [6387] Tully hold.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Typotius de fama, shall be famous, and well he deserves, because he writ of fame; and every trivial poet must be renowned, — Plausuque petit clarescere vulgi.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Adeo ubique (as [6408] Scaliger writes of the Mahometan priests), tum gentium tum locorum, gens ista sacrorum ministra, vulgi secat spes, ad ea quae ipsi fingunt somnia, so cunningly can they gull the commons in all places and countries.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sed videamus iam plura eiusdem farin� vulgi mendacia, qu� Historicis & Cosmographis nostris ade� mal� imposuerunt.

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

  • Sicilia per interualla, ide髊ue persuasione longa (vulgi) concepta, qu騞 ibi expientur anima�.

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

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