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Unusquisque abundat sensu suo, every man abounds in his own sense; and whilst each particular party is so affected, how should one please all?
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Magorum quæ vocatur Cassan, [Vel Cassibin.] quæ regia ciuitas est et nobilis, nisi quod Tartari eam in magnaparte destruxerunt: haec abundat pane, vino, et alijsbonis multis.
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In ea sunt palatia integra non habitata, tamen multis victualibus abundat.
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Ab isto lacu aqua exit et currit vsque ad mare, et in transitu quando retrahit se, fodiuntur Rubiæ, et adamantes, et margaritæ, et aliæ gemmæ pretiosæ: vndè opinio est quod rex ille magis abundat lapidibus pretiosis, quàm aliquis in mundo.
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Multa in eo claræque sententiæ; multa etiam morum gratiâ legenda; sed in eloquendo corrupta pleraque, atque eo perniciosissima, quod abundat dulcibus vitiis.
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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Quinctilian -- _abundat dulcibus vitiis_; and for that reason is the more dangerous and the more apt to pervert the taste of the young and inconsiderate.
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Non operam perdes, non hæc audisse pigebit, tam varijs mirum rebus abundat opus.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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The elder Pliny, in discussing the etymology of the word Albion, suggests that the land may have been so named from the White Roses which abounded in it -- 'Albion insula sic dicta ab albis rupibus, quas mare alluit, vel ob rosas albas quibus abundat.'
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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[Greek: autarkeia] est quae parvo contenta omne id respuit quod abundat
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839
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It is to England what Seneca's prose was to Rome: abundat dulcibus vitiis.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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