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Thus every thing becomes, if hypercritically examined, a question of degree, "_demo unum, demo etiam unum_," and the hundred years become an hour; nought is every thing, and every thing is nought.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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"_Porro unum est necessarium_"; and here he pursues his controversy with modern Puritanism, which imagines that it has, in its special conception of God and religion, the _unum necessarium_, which can dispense with Sweetness and Light, self-culture and self-discipline.
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium, et invisibilium.
Excerpt: Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett 2007
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If all the Greek manuscripts and ancient versions say concerning the Spirit, the water, and the blood, that in unum sunt -- they agree in one, then it was not of them that
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Valens .... docetur relationibus Ducum, gentem Gothorum, ea tempestate intactam ideoque saevissimam, conspirantem in unum, ad pervadenda parari collimitia
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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It must be, as Bossu from Horace, simplex duntaxat & unum, that is, the principal Action on which the whole Work moves ought to be one, otherwise the whole will be confus'd; tho 'there may be many Episodic Actions without making what Aristotle calls an
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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Buffett is casting himself as just another member of the polis -- just a mere "unum" stepping out to offer thanks on behalf of the "pluribus."
'Grateful Nephew' Warren Buffett Thanks Uncle Sam For All The Money The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Buffett is casting himself as just another member of the polis -- just a mere "unum" stepping out to offer thanks on behalf of the "pluribus."
'Grateful Nephew' Warren Buffett Thanks Uncle Sam For All The Money The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Buffett is casting himself as just another member of the polis -- just a mere "unum" stepping out to offer thanks on behalf of the "pluribus."
'Grateful Nephew' Warren Buffett Thanks Uncle Sam For All The Money The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Buffett is casting himself as just another member of the polis -- just a mere "unum" stepping out to offer thanks on behalf of the "pluribus."
'Grateful Nephew' Warren Buffett Thanks Uncle Sam For All The Money The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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