"Causa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... XIX. Quarta restat causa, quae maxime angere atque sollicitam habere nostram aetatem videtur, appropinquatio mortis, quae certe a senectute non potest esse longe. O miserum senem, qui mortem contemnendam esse in tam longa aetate non viderit! Quae aut plane neglegenda ...
— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... the conduct and destinies of Ammon and Moab, and reading Jer. xlviii. and xlix. within "the flowing valley" of the 4th verse of the latter, I was summoned to divine service in a tent fitted up for the purpose,—carpets on the floor "honoris causa;" a table covered with simple white, and a serious congregation of Englishmen before it, each with his own Bible and prayer-book. Thank God that to carry such books about in the wildest deserts is ...
— Byeways in Palestine • James Finn
... talk of our Beauties, I shall tell you a new story of the Gunnings, who make more noise than any of their predecessors since the days of Helen, though neither of them, nor any thing about them, have yet been teterrima belli causa. They went the other day to see Hampton Court; as they were going Into the Beauty-room, another company arrived; the housekeeper said, "This way, ladies; here are the Beauties." The Gunnings flew into a passion, and asked her what she meant; that they came to see the palace, not ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... Flix, si te causa enojos [395] Que te recuerde yo mi desventura, Piensa estn hartos de llorar mis ojos Lgrimas silenciosas de amargura. Y hoy, al tragar la tumba mis despojos, Concede este consuelo a mi tristura: [400] Estos renglones compasivo mira, Y olvida luego ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
... "[Greek: to autexousion tou anthropou kai to symbouleutikon tou Theou me biazomenou]." IV. 4. 3: "homo rationabilis et secundum hoc similis deo liber in arbitrio factus et suae potestatis, ipse sibi causa est, ut aliquando quidem frumentum ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack
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