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  • Differt enim ab ea quae viris et reliquis feminis communiter contingit, propriam habens causam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 102: Canon, 1.1.3, fol. 6vb: Signum autem quod vehementioris istimbre existant est quod neque nausea accidit eis [iuvenibus] in vomitus neque fastidium quemadmodum contingit pueris propter digestive eorum malitiam ….

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Non cuivis contingit adire Corinthum, we may not be all gentlemen, all

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Beside, as [3886] Plutarch holds, 'tis not in our power not to lament, Indolentia non cuivis contingit, it takes away mercy and pity, not to be sad; 'tis a natural passion to weep for our friends, an irresistible passion to lament and grieve.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui rationem corporis non habent, sed cogunt mortalem immortali, terrestrem aethereae aequalem praestare industriam: Caeterum ut Camelo usu venit, quod ei bos praedixerat, cum eidem servirent domino et parte oneris levare illum Camelus recusasset, paulo post et ipsius curem, et totum onus cogeretur gestare (quod mortuo bove impletum) Ita animo quoque contingit, dum defatigato corpori, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But an agent does not act according to a form, save inasmuch as a similitude of the form is in him, which may occur in two ways quod quidem contingit dupliciter.

    Aquinas on Ideas in God (I) 2005

  • But an agent does not act according to a form, save inasmuch as a similitude of the form is in him, which may occur in two ways quod quidem contingit dupliciter.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Dividebatur autem olim Malva flumine in Caesariensem quae Numidiam contingit, et

    The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

  • Sed ecce dum nobis contingit videre rem quam priùs non vidimus, miràtur noster animus, non quòd simpliciter mirum est, sed quod nobis id mirum et nouum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Dum Ioannem Presbyterum contingit procedere cum exercitu in plena exhibitione, non deferuntur vexilla, sed tredecim cruces magnæ altitudinis et grossitudinis, de auro distincto pretiosissimis petris, in honorem Christi et suorum Apostolorum duodecim.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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