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Pytan Insula breuis continet paucos et breues habitatores, Pygmaeis modico longiores, qui decoris vultibus nullo vnquam cibo vescentes, specialis pomi quod secum portant sustentantur odore, quo si carerent ad parum, color in vultu marcesceret, et die tertia vita periret.
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[Commentarius breuis de Islandia: per Arngrimum Ionam Islandum editus, 1593.]
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[Commentarius breuis de Islandia: per Arngrimum Ionam Islandum editus, 1593.]
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Habet profectò Indiæ occidentalis mons quidam flammiuomus æquiores multò, quàm hic noster censores & historicos, minimè illic barathrum exædificantes: Cuius historiam, quia & breuis est, & non illepida, subijciam, ab Hieronimo Benzone Italo in
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Pytan Insula breuis continet paucos et breues habitatores, Pygmaeis modico longiores, qui decoris vultibus nullo vnquam cibo vescentes, specialis pomi quod secum portant sustentantur odore, quo si carerent ad parum, color in vultu marcesceret, et die tertia vita periret.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Dunelmiæ possidendas de vicecomite Westmerlandiæ, prætextu eiusdē breuis dicti domini regis sibi directi nomine nostro recipiendas; & turrim prædictā ad opus nostrum saluò & securè custodiēdam.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Adde quod hoc ipsum breuis habitaculi saeptum plures incolunt nationes lingua, moribus, totius uitae ratione distantes, ad quas tum difficultate itinerum tum loquendi diuersitate tum commercii insolentia non modo fama hominum singulorum sed ne urbium quidem peruenire queat.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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C [= a] ta breuis pariter, c [= a] talogus venit hinc.
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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Spes vigilantis somnium; vitae summa breuis spem nos uetat inchoare longam.
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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Habet profectò Indiæ occidentalis mons quidam flammiuomus æquiores multò, quàm hic noster censores & historicos, minimè illic barathrum exædificantes: Cuius historiam, quia & breuis est, & non illepida, subijciam, ab Hieronimo Benzone Italo in Historiar noui orbis, lib.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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