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  • Photometria, sive, De mensura et gradibus luminis, colorum et umbrae.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Animal infectum Cusino, ut quis legere vel scribere possit sine alterius ope luminis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For both the natural light of the intellect is fortified by infusion of gracious light per infusionem luminis gratuiti; and occasionally the phantasms in the human imagination are also divinely formed, so as better to express divine things than those that we received naturally from sensibles; as appears in prophetic visions.

    Aquinas on the More Perfect Knowledge of Grace 2005

  • For both the natural light of the intellect is fortified by infusion of gracious light per infusionem luminis gratuiti; and occasionally the phantasms in the human imagination are also divinely formed, so as better to express divine things than those that we received naturally from sensibles; as appears in prophetic visions.

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • That we are so often deceived in others is not because our judgment is at fault, but because in general, as Bacon says, intellectus luminis sicci non est, sed recipit infusionem a voluntate et affectibus: that is to say, trifles unconsciously bias us for or against a person from the very beginning.

    Religion 2004

  • That we are so often mistaken in others is not always precisely due to our faulty judgment, but springs, as a rule as Bacon says, from intellectus luminis sicci non est, sec recipit infusionem

    Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

  • * Jam divini amor Numinis, Patris omnipotentis prolisque beatissimae sancta communicatio; omnipotens Paraclete Spiritus; moerentium consolator clementissime, jam cordis mei penetralibus potenti illabere virtute, et tenebrosa quaeque laris neglecti latibula, corusci luminis fulgore pius habitator laetifica, tuique roris abundantia, longo ariditatis marcentia squalore, visitando fecunda.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • [132] "Jam divini amor Numinis, Patris omnipotentis prolisque beatissimae sancta communicatio; omnipotens Paraclete Spiritus; moerentium consolator clementissime, jam cordis mei penetralibus potenti illabere virtute, et tenebrosa quaeque laris neglecti latibula, corusci luminis fulgore pius habitator laetifica, tuique roris abundantia, longo ariditatis marcentia squalore, visitando fecunda."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Latinis et litteris luminis et verbis attulisti. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Alcides Theseusque comes pallentia iungunt oscula vix primas amplexi luminis oras.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

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