How To Use Agrippa In A Sentence
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“A proposito del ˜De vanitate scientiarum et artium™ di Cornelio Agrippa.”
Loss of Faith
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John Dancer's tragicomedy Agrippa, King of Alba appeared in 1669.
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Sicilia is at peace, charge of it given permanently to Marcus Agrippa, the only one gifted with an old-style latifundium there.
Antony and Cleopatra
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Agrippa had been entirely exploded, and that a modern system of science had been introduced, which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical; under such circumstances, I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside, and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies.
Chapter 2
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Doctor Agrippa, who surprisingly had kept well out of our way, now came to dance attendance on us.
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Had Victor not abandoned his original mentors, necromancers like Paracelsus, Cornelius Agrippa, and Albertus Magnus, he might have created a harmless homunculus instead of the creature, who exacts revenge upon him.
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A small group of vigiles appeared from behind the Baths of Agrippa, on the far side of her, now sensibly holding esparto mats in front of them.
Two For The Lions
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Behind him came Agrippa, also crowned, toting the curlicued staff of an augur and wearing his red-and-purple particolored toga.
Antony and Cleopatra
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In Judaea the procurators who replaced the deceased King Agrippa I in 44 proved unsatisfactory, and by 54 Claudius' eastern governors had allowed the Parthians to gain control of Greater Armenia, a serious blow to Roman prestige.
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The emperor exiled Antipas and awarded his tetrarchy to Agrippa.
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Two later French antiquaries confirm Wier's account that Agrippa died at Grenoble.
Loss of Faith
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Agrippa, with favouring winds and gods, proudly leads on his column; on his brows glitters the prow-girt naval crown, the haughty emblazonment of the war.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Doctor Agrippa, who surprisingly had kept well out of our way, now came to dance attendance on us.
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[22] This sum of twelve millions of drachmae, which is equal to three millions of shekels, i.e. at 2s. 10d. a shekel, equal to four hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds sterling, was Agrippa the Great's yearly income, or about three quarters of his grandfather Herod's income; he having abated the tax upon houses at Jerusalem, ch.
Antiquities of the Jews
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“ancient theology” (prisca theologia); and according to Agrippa and Florentine philosophers such as Ficino, this wisdom was passed along by way of the Pythagoreans to Plato and his later disciples, whom the Renaissance called Platonists but modern scholarship calls Neoplatonists.
Loss of Faith
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Agrippa, and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him, osculantes obsecrarent ne id quod natura cogeret, ipse acceleraret, not to offer violence to himself, with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it: and so constantly died, precesque eorum taciturna sua obstinatione depressit.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Yet Una and Ita spill famine with drought and Agrippa, the propastored, spells tripulations in his threne.
Finnegans Wake
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(M259) The dominions of Herod Antipas were transferred to Herod Agrippa, who had already obtained from Caligula the tetrarchate of Ituræa, on the death of Philip, with the title of king.
Ancient States and Empires
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[330] One is crowned for that which another is tormented: Ille crucem sceleris precium tulit, hic diadema; made a knight, a lord, an earl, a great duke, (as [331] Agrippa notes) for that which another should have hung in gibbets, as a terror to the rest,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Although the inscription on the pediment declares, "M. Agrippa, son of Lucius, Consul during his third consulate, built this," it was actually Hadrian who built the Pantheon as a rotunda.
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Agrippa was the son-in-law of Augustus and an eminent town planner.
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As Agrippa's dog had a devil tied to his collar; some think that Paracelsus (or else Erastus belies him) had one confined to his sword pummel; others wear them in rings, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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His close friend Claude Chansonnette, who became a distinguished representative of the movement known as juristic humanism, in 1520 requested Agrippa's opinion on his newly published legal treatise.
Loss of Faith
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Agrippa taught this form of shoulder thrust along with the common use of the pass.
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Page view page image: ages, such as Albertus Magnus, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and the famous friar who created the prophetic Brazen Head.
Mosses from an Old Manse
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Ficino, Reuchlin, and Agrippa von Nettesheim (espe - cially the latter), cast doubt upon previous claims to knowledge.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Agrippa got one of the better jokes—she boasts that she is the founder of the "Buy Your OWN Damn Books" program and other similarly antieducational manifestos—but like many of the others, it was better suited to standup than to opera.
When Words Got in the Way
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They were the works of philosophers of the middle ages, such as Albertus Magnus, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and the famous friar who created the prophetic Brazen Head.
The Birthmark
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He said he supposed the proconsul was the friend of Caligula, who often visited Agrippa; and expressed a surmise that he himself might be exiled, or that perhaps his throat would be cut.
Herodias
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Fear makes our imagination conceive what it list, invites the devil to come to us, as [1667] Agrippa and Cardan avouch, and tyranniseth over our phantasy more than all other affections, especially in the dark.
Anatomy of Melancholy
