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  • In Congress, as everywhere else, _quod voluit valde voluit_; and he threw a fervor into the most temporary topic, as if his eternal salvation depended upon it.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

  • Besides (as Nazianzen hath it) Deus latere nos multa voluit; and with Seneca, cap.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Fransus, l. 3. de symbolis qui primus symbolum excogitavit voluit nimirum hac ratione implicatum animum evolvere, eumque vel dominae vel aliis intuentibus ostendere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Genibus flexis loqui cum illo voluit, et adstare jam tum putavit, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hecla mons, &c. ubi mortuorum spiritus visuntur, &c. voluit

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hom. 9. voluit urbem tyrannus evertere, et Deus non prohibuit; voluit captivos ducere, non impedivit; voluit ligare, concessit, &c. 3801.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Accidit hodie terribilis casus (saith [1898] S. Austin) hear a miserable accident; Cyrillus 'son this day in his drink, Matrem praegnantem nequiter oppressit, sororem violare voluit, patrem occidit fere, et duas alias sorores ad mortem vulneravit, would have violated his sister, killed his father, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Exotica rejecit, domesticis solum nos contentos esse voluit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Mirabilis est ergo Deus maximè in illo, quòd ipse solus sufficit sibi: et mirabilis in altis Dominus, hoc est, in coelo et in coelestibus: sed et mirabilis in terris, et in terrestribus: tamen si verum indicauerimus, nihil est mirabile, quod mirum videri non debet, si ille qui omnipotens est, fecit quæcunque voluit in coelo et in terra.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Fratres autem ducti fuerunt ad plateam ciuitatis, vbi accensus est ignis copiosus, in quen frater Thomas voluit se proijcere, sed quidam Saracenus cepit eam per caputium et retraxit dicens; Non vadus tu cum sis senex, quia carmen aliquod vel experimentum habere posses super te, quare te ignis non posset laedere, sed alium ire in ignem permittas.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

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