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Quid impedit quin credamus ex his initiis, plures alios mundos detegendos, vel (ut Democrito placuit) infinitos?
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Fluvius hic illustris, humanarum rerum imago, quae parvis ductae sub initiis, in immensum crescunt, et subito evanescunt.
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[69] _Bonis initiis_ is the ablative absolute, 'though his beginnings were good.'
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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L. Sulla, armis recepta re publica, bonis initiis malos eventus habuit, [69] rapere omnes, trahere, domum alius, alius agros cupere, neque modum neque modestiam victores habere, foeda crudeliaque in civibus [70] facinora facere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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_Acribus initiis, ut ferme talia, incuriosa fine_; these cynical words, with which the historian of the Roman Empire blasted the movements of his age, may almost serve as the epitaph to Bonaparte's early enthusiasms.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898
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He does not, however, forget how to make a bargain to get money; but when the money is to be recovered for the Company, (as he says,) he forgets to recover it: so that the accuracy with which he begins a bribe, _acribus initiis et soporosâ fine_, and the carelessness with which he ends it, are things that characterize, not weakness and stupidity, but fraud.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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De rei numartae apud Arabas initiis commentatione egit academicalo.
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Quinetiam cum de rerum initiis, omnique mundo locuti effent, ut multa, non modo probabili argumentatione, fed etiam neceflaria mathematicorum ratione concluderent; maximam materiam ex rebus per fe inveftigatis, ad rerum occultarum cognitionem attuleruiU.
An essay on genius 1774
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Ejufmodt autem incrementis Vrbipirvis Wr ta initiis paiiUatua crevic»
Antiqvitatvm romanarvm epitome: ad vsvm seminari neapolit Salvatore Aula 1773
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Novis initiis fic ominibus oput cft* Aufpicium & imperium alii trade interim» quitam diu rex appelletur, donec Aiia deccdat bo - itis.
Conciones et orationes ex historicis Latinis excerptae : argumenta singulis praefixa sunt, quae causam cujusque & summam ex rei gestae occasione explicant : opus recognitum recensitumque in usum scholarum Hollandiae & Westfrisiae. Veratius, Jobus, d. 1571 1672
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