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  • Ob gaudium et voluptatem foras exit sanguis, aut ob melioris reverentiam, aut ob subitum occursum, aut si quid incautius exciderit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [25] Magni et excellentis ingenii et preclare indolis; præ se fert speciem fillii magni Principis, et super omnia ilaris et jocundus, e tutto festa: cum magna siquidem modestia est longe melioris et prestantioris aspectus, quam sit dux Candie germanus suus.

    Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

  • Reliquiæ Jacobi II., qui in secundo civitatis gradu clarus triumphis in primo infelicior, post varios fortunæ casus in spem melioris vitæ et beatæ resurrectionis hic quievit in Domino, anno MDCCI, v. idus

    Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850 Various

  • Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodiernae vitae minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes.

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1927

  • The world, therefore, is the best possible world, and the supreme law of finite being is the lex melioris.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Behind the lex melioris is therefore, a more fundamental law, the law of sufficient reason, which is that "things or events are real when there is a sufficient reason for their existence."

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Attici noctem celebrare mystae: 10 tanta per campos agitur silentis turba; pars tarda graditur senecta, tristis et longa satiata uita; pars adhuc currit melioris aeui: uirgines nondum thalamis iugatae15 et comis nondum positis ephebi matris et nomen modo doctus infans. his datum solis, minus ut timerent, igne praelato releuare noctem; ceteri uadunt per opaca tristes.

    The Last Pilgrimage 1912

  • Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodiernæ vitæ minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes.

    Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905

  • Hoc enim repugnat Scripturae, quae docet, Christum melioris, id est, novi foederis Sponsorem et Mediatorem factum esse.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • "Non debeo melioris condieionis esse, quam auctor meus, a quo ius in me transit."

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

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