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Has primùm audiet puer; harum verba effingere imitando conabitur.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Junius, _Bona illorum venia; Tquidem Graecorum, Latinorumque majusculum, crucis quodam modo signum videtur effingere, verum hoc ad literam
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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Adfperfa temere pig - menta in tabula, oris lineamenta effingere poffijnt num etiam Veneris Coa: pulchritudinem cffingi pofle adfperfione fortuita putas?
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Hunc enim uitae immobilis praesentarium statum infinitus ille temporalium rerum motus imitatur cumque eum effingere atque aequare non possit, ex immobilitate deficit in motum, ex simplicitate praesentiae decrescit in infinitam futuri ac praeteriti quantitatem; et cum totam pariter uitae suae plenitudinem nequeat possidere, hoc ipso quod aliquo modo numquam esse desinit; illud quod implere atque exprimere non potest, aliquatenus uidetur aemulari alligans se ad qualemcumque praesentiam huius exigui uolucrisque momenti, quae, quoniam manentis illius praesentiae quandam gestat imaginem, quibuscumque contigerit id praestat ut esse uideantur.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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_ those, whom _Tullie_ best loued, & specially followed: & would marke diligently in _Tullie_ where he doth _exprimere_ or _effingere_
The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541
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