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Let us, for instance, take the following passage from the speech of Gracchus to the Censors; -- "_Abesse non potest, quin ejusdem hominis fit, probos improbare, qui improbos probet_;" "There is no possibility of doubting that the same person who is an enemy to virtue, must be a friend to vice."
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Quin ejusdem hominis sit, qui improbos probet, probos improbare!"
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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How much better would the period have terminated if he had said, -- "_quin ejusdem hominis fit, qui improbos probet, probos improbare_!"
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Obesse non potest, quin ejusdem hominis sit, probos improbare, qui improbos probet."
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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: “Nemo est igitur, qui non hanc affectionem animi probet atque laudet.”
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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: "Nemo est igitur, qui non hanc affectionem animi probet atque laudet."
Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848
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O bona palloris! li quis non pauperis ufum Mente prius doM fadidiat, et probet illic Qmnia, laiuriae pretiis, incognita curis,
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Nemon 'ut avarus Se probet; ac potius laudet diverfa fequcntcs?
Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793
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Primum enim Bolgenius, li cet fi Jem suam in transcribendo lectori probet, non tamen illi proba - bit diligenriam in emendando errore, qui per se se videtur esse ma - nitestus meJiocri mentis contentione Augustinum legenti.
Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792
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Si a feris anim. alibus difcerptum, probet tellibus allatis.
Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791
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