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This we shall see when we pass on, as we may now do, to review that system which may be termed 'Evangelicalism' in distinction to the earlier Methodism. Largior hic campos æther et lumine vestit Purpureo.... It is with a real sense of relief that we pass out of the close air and distracting hubbub of an unprofitable controversy into a fresher and calmer atmosphere.

Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey - The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

Then, Sir, may be applied to Africa those words, originally indeed used with a different view His demum exactis devenere locos laetos, et amoena vireta fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatas; largior hie campos aether, et lumine vestit purpureo."

J. A. (John Adam) Cramb - The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain: Nineteenth Century Europe

Then might be applied to Africa those words, originally used indeed with a different view: His demùm exactis Devenere locos laetos, et amoena vireta Fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatas; Largior hìc campos aether et lumine vestit Purpureo. It was in this view it was as an atonement for our long and cruel injustice towards Africa, that the measure proposed by his honourable friend Mr.

Thomas Clarkson - The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)

The descent of AEneas and the Sibyl to the infernal regions, to the world of spirits, expands an awful and boundless prospect, from the nocturnal gloom of the Cumaean grot, Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, to the meridian brightness of the Elysian fields; Largior hic campos aether et lumine vestit Purpureo

Edward Gibbon - Memoirs of My Life and Writings