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Des Cartes, in his second 'Meditation, says Imaginari nihil aliud est quam rei corporeos figuram seu imaginem contemplari which sentence indicates that he agreed with D'Alembert as to the exclusive limitation of imagination to things material and sensible.
Erasmus, that learned and charming writer, who was blessed with the genius which could enliven a folio, has well described himself, sum naturâ propensior ad jocos quam fortasse deceat: more constitutionally inclined to pleasantry than, as he is pleased to add, perhaps became him.
Nam bellis Sueticis a Moscouitarum, Naruaeque Liuoniae exclusi commercio, iter ad illos Oceano, hinc Noruegiae, Finmarchiae, Lappiae, Scricfinniae, Biarmiaeque; illinc Groenlandiae littora praeteruecti, vltra Septuagesimum latitudinis Aquilonaris gradum sibi patefaciunt. Quam nauigationem Belgae postea, non sine tamen cum ijsdem Britannis velitatione, sunt secuti.
For language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. Animadverte, says Hobbes, quam sit ab improprietate verborum pronum hominihus prolabi in errores circa ipsas res! Egregie vero J. C. Scaliger, in Lib.
A cause so good gives confidence: if there are plausible appearances against us there are proofs on our side, and I would dare to say to an adversary: Aspice, quam mage sit nostrum penetrabile telum.
The burial service was read, the De Profundis was sung, the bell was tolled, the Ecce quam bonum was intoned, and finally the chant was chanted: Dead to Him, then death is over, Dead and gone are death's dark fears. John Storm was profoundly stirred. The heavens seemed to open and all the earth to pass away. It was difficult to believe that he was still in the flesh.
'I will give you a text from Juvenal, she said, 'to add to these: Who writes that no man is poor unless he be worthy of ridicule. He winced a little. 'Nay, you are hard! The text should be read: Nothing else maketh poverty so hard to bear as that it forceth men to ridiculous shifts.... Quam quod ridiculos esse.... 'Aye, magister, you are more learned even yet than I, she said indifferently.
Continet hodie tria regna: Darense, Fezense et Maurocitanum. Dividebatur autem olim Malva flumine in Caesariensem quae Numidiam contingit, et Tingitanam quae Oceano perfunditur. Regna fuere ad C. Caesarem usque Imperatorem, qui in duas divisit provincias. Casariensis. Caesariensis provincia, quam nunc totam Dara regnum obsidet, antea Bocchi regnum adpellata fuit.
In the end, and in all conscience, I should rather have prescribed them hellebore than hemlock; "Captisque res magis mentibus, quam consceleratis similis visa;" justice has its corrections proper for such maladies.
Thomas Aquinas, merely arose out of St. Thomas's modesty, and his desire not to seem openly to controvert St. Augustin "voluisse Divus Thomas pro sua modestia subterfugere vim argumenti potius quam aperte Augustinum inconstantiae arguere."
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