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  • In this way they form a kind of involucre around the central parts. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
  • I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay any person's cause for lucre or malice.
  • Lucrezia now appears to be less the bride of Bartolomeo than the bride of Christ – the red of her dress matching the blood dripping from the base of the cross. Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
  • She married a foreigner for mere lucre.
  • The Australian Institute of Management's latest national salary survey found that executives and managers did not get that much more lucre last year.
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  • Blithe references are made to jet setting from one US city to the next, and accessing a stash of lucre in a secret Swiss bank account.
  • Tantalus, ut famast, cassa formidine torpens; sed magis in uita diuum metus urget inanis mortalis casumque timent quem cuique ferat fors; nec Tityon uolucres ineunt Acherunte iacentem nec quod sub magno scrutentur pectore quicquam55 perpetuam aetatem possunt reperire profecto; quamlibet immani proiectu corporis exstet, qui non sola nouem dispessis iugera membris obtineat, sed qui terrai totius orbem, non tamen aeternum poterit perferre dolorem60 nec praebere cibum proprio de corpore semper; sed Tityos nobis non est in amore iacentem quem luctus lacerant: at quem exest anxius angor aut alia quauis scindunt cuppedine curae. The Powers of Hell
  • The year 1965 was a watershed: she replaced the indisposed Marilyn Horne in a Carnegie Hall performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.
  • The Epicureans, not being able to shut their eyes against this glaring difficulty, that strikes at the very foundation of their whole system, have, for a last shift, invented what Lucretius calls clinamen -- by which is meant a motion somewhat declining or bending from the straight line, and which gives atoms the occasion to meet and encounter. The Existence of God
  • The town's lust for lucre has prompted other ploys, including attempts to impose a hotel-motel tax on a Northwestern conference center and a tuition tax.
  • Tito sang of a rose which Lucretia had sent him, but his son excelled him in an epigram on the _Rose of Lucretia_, which could hardly have been the same one his father had received. [ Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
  • Despite the lure of lucre and a three-year contract, the one thing he couldn't guarantee his family in Lincolnshire was happiness.
  • It was dangerous territory in that sense, for Lucretius is a passionate and persuasive adversary. The Nose Knows : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • Lucretius invoked the swerve (clinamen) not only to explain the creation of things but also to account for the freedom of the will. The First Quantum Cosmologist
  • Aristotle; all those subsequently repeated by Lucretius and Ovid; all the experiments of the renowned Abbé Spallanzani -- all the alleged "fantastic assumptions" of M. Bonnet -- all the theories of "panspermism," by whomsoever advocated -- all the fortuitous aggregations of "_molecules organiques, _" as put forth by the French school of materialists -- all the Life: Its True Genesis
  • Eloise's Auntie Lucretia is coaching her in the finer points of being a vampire. Nov. 19th, 2008 - Issue 0.012
  • It is reasonable to assume that Lucrezia Scanatoria had repented her former life of sin before she died.
  • Hae volucrés, quae Harpýiae appellábantur, Phíneó summam molestiam adferébant; quotiéns enim ille accubuerat, veniébant et cibum appositum statim auferébant. Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader
  • Buffalo Bill used a Springfield which he called Lucretia Borgia, and he preferred firing from horseback. THE AMERICAN WEST
  • Lucrezia swinging in a hammock in the centre of a large room, the four corners of which are occupied by four bedsteads containing four children, in the production of whom not exactly _four_ fathers, as they ought for perfect symmetry, but as a compromise _three_, have assisted. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • I observed to - day a curious monstrosity of an Umbelliferous plant, in which the rays of the umbellules are soldered together; forming an involucre round the immersed central solitary female, the male flowers forming the extreme teeth of the involucre. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • Lucretius" takes us once more into the classic period. A Hero and Some Other Folks
  • But as Hogle has demonstrated, Shelley's Lucretianism allows him to imagine a moment of clinamen during which these random vectors might start to be attracted towards one another to form worlds, even ecotopias. _Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire
  • I glanced inside and envelopes I saw had a return address in and the name Lucretia yon something or other embossed in the corner. Adam's Fall
  • She married a foreigner for mere lucre.
  • Desire and dollars, lust and lucre - when have they not been an item?
  • This is admirably described by Alphonse Daudet when he writes: "Bien vite, s'il s'agit de l'affreuse politique, nos qualités tournent au pire: l'enthousiasme devient hypocrisie; l'éloquence, faconde et boniment; le scepticisme léger, escroquerie; l'amour de ce qui brille, fureur du lucre et du luxe à tout prix; la sociabilité, le besoin de plaire, se font lâcheté, faiblesse, et palinodie. Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
  • This interpretation was then bolstered by Tacitus' dry laconic wit and Lucretius' pagan atomism.
  • He refutes any view that the games were somehow freer from the lust for lucre than their modern, brazenly commercial counterparts.
  • Hujus quam cernis nomen Lucretia, Divi Omnia cui larga contribuere manu. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete
  • Promissis everberant, molliunt dulciloquiis, et opportunum tempus aucupantes laqueos ingerunt quos vix Lucretia vitare; escam parant quam vel satur Hippolitus sumeret, &c. Hae sane sunt virgae soporiferae quibus contactae animae ad Orcum descendunt; hoc gluten quo compactae mentium alae evolare nequeunt, daemonis ancillae, quae sollicitant, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Since I'd found that book lamentable, I asked why so much attention, not to mention lucre, was being thrown at a historian whose chief talent seemed to be self-promotion.
  • Debate over whether Michaele could make it on her own, which allows Paul to give the sideswipe that it's easy for Lynda to say -- she married and divorced a very rich man, that's where the lucre's from, not her modeling agency. Last one ever?: D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#9, Oct. 7)
  • The involucre is very remarkable, monophyllous, broad at top and 6 or 8-cleft, almost wholly concealing the calyx. — Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • Two in Shakespeare — and I see that one of these: “And every one to rest themselves betakes,” from the poem Lucrece was actually published in the original 1594 edition, and a second edition, as “And every one to rest himselve betakes,” being changed — by author? The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence
  • Her house was a congregation for many of her activist friends, including the famous suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
  • Promissis everberant, molliunt dulciloquiis, et opportunum tempus aucupantes laqueos ingerunt quos vix Lucretia vitare; escam parant quam vel satur Hippolitus sumeret, &c. Hae sane sunt virgae soporiferae quibus contactae animae ad Orcum descendunt; hoc gluten quo compactae mentium alae evolare nequeunt, daemonis ancillae, quae sollicitant, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • But Lucretius 'true tendency is to express an ordered vision of the life of man, with great vigour of real poetic image and often acute observation. quod petiere, premunt arte faciuntque dolorem corporis et dentes inlidunt saepe labellis osculaque adfligunt, quia non est pura voluptas et stimuli subsunt qui instigant laedere id ipsum quodcumque est, rabies unde illaec germina surgunt ... Dante
  • The word is used in the same sense as in Lucretius, v. Tum caput atque humeros planis redimire coronis. Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
  • Dr. Heubener, of Bethlehem, has employed the short, rigid hairs of the involucre as a substitute for those of mucuna, and has found them equally anthelmintic. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Fistula dulce canit volucrem dum decipit auceps. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • Lucretius asks the same question: — "Quod si Juppiter atque alii fulgentia divi terrifico quatiunt sonitu cælestia templa et jaciunt ignem quo qoiquest cumque voluptas, cur quibus incautum scelus aversabile cumquest non faciunt icti flammas ut fulguris halent pectore perfixo, documen mortalibus acre, et potius nulla sibi turpi conscius in re volvitur in flammis innoxius inque peditur turbine cælesti subito correptus et igni? cur etiam loca sola petunt frustraque laborant? Lunheng
  • The involucre is very remarkable, monophyllous, broad at top and 6 or 8-cleft, almost wholly concealing the calyx. — Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • The series demonstrated once again that Ferguson has an uncanny knack for turning controversy into lucre.
  • Ever yours E.F. G. 'Sed genus humanum damnat caligo F.turi' -- a Lucretian line from Juvenal. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II
  • It paused for a moment, and mouthed on: 'I can cap your Lucretius too with "_Usque adeo res humanas vis abdita ---- _"' It seemed that for a moment the speaker stayed before the door where all three held their breaths. Privy Seal His Last Venture
  • Filthy lucre has invaded the town, and its inhabitants would likely stomp over one another to get the last roast beast from the butcher.
  • Ştim cu toţii şi dragostea in atmosfera Pamantului, ocean, si peisaje, dar Vnm noastră trebuie să fie capabil să lucreze pe luna lui Saturn, Titan atmosfera groasă şi oceane de metan, precum şi atmosfera acide Venus şi suprafaţa semi-lichid. Ideonexus.com »2007» martie
  • Da nunc & volucrem, fceptro quae furgit eburttOf lUinc cornicines, hinc praecedcntia longi S A T J RA X. nj Agmims officia, & fiiveos ad fraena Quirites J 45 A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ...
  • The pursuit of lucre, in whatever form, is just that… and God is not in it.
  • That is why we hold in contempt those who, in the unbridled pride of their narcissistic haughtiness, for selfish interests, or even for filthy lucre in various places all over the world—even in our land a small group of such backsliders and traitors can be found - divorce and isolate themselves from their own people and its life and real interests and, with inexorable logic, become instruments of the antihumanistic forces of imperialism and, in its service, the heralds of disruption and discord among nations. Making the History of 1989
  • Did ye notice a little mare called Lucretia in that race, Mr. Carson -- did ye see anythin 'av her at all down at the post? Thoroughbreds
  • In the 1970s, the search for lucre through the illegal drug business compounded and further adulterated societal ties.
  • From the fact that the vital fluid is born with the body, that it grows, develops, and declines along with it, Lucretius infers that the fluid must also be dissolved simultaneously with the body, scattered into the air like smoke: — "ergo dissolvi quoque convenit omnem animai naturam, ceu fumus, in altas aëris auras; quandoquidem gigni pariter pariterque videmus crescere et, ut docui, simul ævo fessa fatisci. Lunheng
  • Sweet "videos here! www. bellezzegossip.com I made this video for Lucrezia of the famous bellezze gossip website. WN.com - Articles related to Madonna turns photographer
  • In "Lucretius," Tennyson shows the moral apathy of materialism by letting us look on at a suicidal death, and hear the cry, half-rage and half-despair, "What is duty?" and in that fated cry, atheism has run its course. A Hero and Some Other Folks
  • They came here for lucre, they left when the money ran out.
  • Apparently Paul is skeptical of the academy's courage to stand up for principle and reject the government's bigotry-tainted lucre in the event of an adverse ruling in the case.
  • Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: 'tis my lady. Twelfth Night; or What You Will
  • Middle Ages, while others, such as Lucretius, Tacitus, and Manilius, although extant in a few but neglected medieval manuscripts, had to be rediscovered by the humanists. HUMANISM IN ITALY
  • Quum tacet omnis ager, pecudes, pietaeque volucres; A Philosophical Dictionary
  • That you’d even think to mention the “filthy lucre” aspect shows how significant the skew is – people would criticize the guy for making money from his site. Adverpedia « BuzzMachine
  • Cohesion of the bracts by their edges, so as to form a tubular involucre, or by their surfaces, so as to form a cupule, is not of uncommon occurrence, under natural conditions, and may be met with in plants which ordinarily do not exhibit this appearance. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • What a shame it would be if racing ends in Ballybeggan Park - filthy lucre winning out over sportsmanship and pride in your home town achievements - sad if that happens to be the case.
  • L lost sight of what they were debating about and focussed instead on being pedantic (contrary to your opinion, Lucretia, that is not a very professional debating tactic). Sex and the single Marvel super heroine | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • The heart must be kept pure from fleshly lusts, all unchaste thoughts and desires; and from worldly lusts; covetousness is called filthy lucre; from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, all that which come out of the heart, and defiles the man. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • The key insight into Lucrece is her externalized sense of self.
  • Why no they don't," said Gwen, "for over on this wall, the first picture, this one of the lady with the dog is called Lucretia, and that next one's name was Abagail. Princess Polly's Gay Winter
  • Lucretia was showered with sonnets and epithalamia. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
  • Two in Shakespeare — and I see that one of these: “And every one to rest themselves betakes,” from the poem Lucrece was actually published in the original 1594 edition, and a second edition, as “And every one to rest himselve betakes,” being changed — by author? by printer? The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence
  • ANTHEMOIDES, D.C., with the leaves pubescent and the scales of the involucre paler. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • [188] The Count Albani plays his difficult part of thirdsman very well throughout, though just at first he would make an advance on "auld lang syne" if Lucrezia would let him. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • There was melancholy, high and stately, such as Lucretius knew, when he went lonely among the homesteads or along the shore; but it was too exalted to be one with diffidence, for he who will hold the sum of things in his thoughts walks on clouds above the heads of men, free of all misgiving. Apologia Diffidentis
  • Cheap points, and, possibly, some mitigating box office lucre, can be gained by criticizing an American audience overseas in Europe.
  • Friday, the 25th, on behalf of the victims of the war, the fifth act of "Hernani" by the actors of the Théâtre Français and the last act of "Lucrece Borgia" by the actors of the Porte Saint Martin, and in addition the recitation as an intermede of extracts from _Les The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
  • Though Poggio was responsible for many priceless finds—the works of Vitruvius and Quintilian, the letters of Cicero—it was thanks to his discovery in 1417 of the sole surviving manuscript of the Roman poet Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" that, in Mr. Greenblatt's phrase, "the world swerved in a new direction. How the Secular World Began
  • The former indicates a commitment to communal happiness, and in fact solar glory, while the latter embodies mere private greed and the lust for lucre.
  • I was not the only person who felt betrayed by filthy lucre when the World Cup went to the satellite company.
  • Later: a small nut or nutlet; a section of a compound (usually hard) fruit; a nut borne in an involucre. Notes from underground
  • ¿Por qué el doctor José Vicente Rangel no tiene nada que lo involucre en los hechos que ocurrieron el 11 de abril cuando todos sabemos cual fue su actuación?... A reader takes action: Open Letter to His Excellency Ramón Herrera Navarro, Ambassador of Venezuela to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • New methods of gathering the nuts after they fall from the involucre or husk are being discovered and improved by the western growers from time to time, so that the old expensive method of hand-picking is being eliminated. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
  • Priapus ... prendam te tamen ', but it seems to be the meaning required at Lucretius II 532-35' nam _quod_ rara uides magis esse animalia quaedam/fecundamque minus naturam cernis in illis,/at regione locoque alio terrisque remotis/multa licet genere esse in eo numerumque repleri '. The Last Poems of Ovid
  • Senegambia, but less glabrous, and with the leaflets of the involucre much larger. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • Perhaps it is a reflection of the inadequacies of this world that even the most heartfelt attempt to acknowledge its awesome terrors cannot remain unsullied by humanity's quest for lucre.
  • When Helen looked blank she added, `The money, the filthy lucre, contributions. DEATH OF A NYMPH
  • Sometimes the relative pronouns compounded with _cunque_ and _libet_ are separated by the insertion of some other word or words between them, which in grammatical language is called a tmesis -- as _quod enim cunque judicium subierat, absolvebatur; quem sors dierum cunque tibi dederit, lucre appone, _ 'whatever day chance may give thee, consider it as a gain.' C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
  • Basal leaves and flowers initiate from a tuberous rhizome and three green cauline leaves arranged in a whorl form an involucre around the developing flower.
  • The body of Lucrece was brought into the market place, where the people wondred at the vilenesse of that facte, euery man complayning vppon the mischiefe of that facinorous rape, committed by Tarquinius. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • My friend Rafael Sabatini, than whom no man living has dug deeper into Borgia history, explains the calumniation of Lucretia in this fashion: Adultery and promiscuous intercourse were the fashion in Rome at the time of Alexander VI. She Stands Accused
  • Lucrezia's first marriage was annulled on the grounds of non-consummation; her husband was lucky to escape with his life.
  • The involucre-scales are sometimes delicately rose-coloured. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
  • Saepe suas volucres legit mihi grandior aevo, quaeque necet serpens, quae iuvet herba, Macer. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
  • Lucrezia often referred to her mother-in-law as Saint Contessina as a result. The Poet Prince
  • You might ask him about that money Aunt Lucretia willed to me, that Father's still not letting me have. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • The pursuit of filthy lucre, and a soupçon of booze, had created constant inspiration.
  • The pistil was unaffected in some cases, while in some others it was entirely wanting, the gynophore being surmounted by a cup-like involucre, divided into three acutely pointed lobes, each with a midrib; these encircled a series of stalked involucels, as before, and among which were scattered Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • A voice rang out, a togate figure leaped to his feet: Quintus Lucretius Ofella. Fortune's Favorites
  • In this long Latin didactic poem, the epic poet Lucretius sought to free humans from the fear of death by explaining the true nature of things. Mesoamerican Religion and Multiverses: Part One
  • Such is the oscitancy of man, that he lies torpid for ages under these aggressions, until, at last, some signal abuse—the violation of Lucrece, the death of Virginia, the oppression of William Tell—shakes him from his slumber. II. At the Prosecution of Johnson for Libel
  • Vallombrosa, which the said monk afterwards placed in an arbour covered with vines, regardless of the injuries of wind and rain -- Andrea, having some colours still left on his palette, took up a tile and called his wife to sit for her portrait, that all might see how well she had kept her good looks from her youth; but Lucrezia not being inclined to sit, he got a mirror and painted _his own portrait_ on the tile instead. Fra Bartolommeo
  • Basal leaves and flowers initiate from a tuberous rhizome and three green cauline leaves arranged in a whorl form an involucre around the developing flower.
  • The Hermaphrodite cyathium shows the characteristics measured (length and width of the cyathium involucre and the nectary).
  • Easy for me to say, though, with so much filthy lucre in my pockets. SILENT JOE
  • She is an incarnation of the Lucretian Venus, an impossible contradiction of holiness and eroticism that prompts even the 'holy priests' of the temple to bless her when she is 'riggish' or lustful. Shakespeare
  • Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece are discourses, sequent and complementary, on sex.
  • I glanced inside and the first three envelopes I saw had a return address in Switzerland and the name Lucretia von something or other foreign embossed in the corner. Adam's Fall
  • These atoms are in perpetual motion, but sometimes they swerve, and this swerve—what Lucretius called the "clinamen"—accounts not only for change in general but for the forms that develop in nature. How the Secular World Began
  • The rest is plot / counterplot, as the rival Sforzas plot to seduce Lucrezia, and political marriages ensue.
  • Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: ’tis my lady. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
  • Sporangia clustered around the slender bristle, which is the prolongation of a vein, and surrounded by a vase-like, slightly two-lipped involucre. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
  • [551] A pleasant study, in poetic use of imagery and phrase, is the gradation from the bare and grand Lucretian simplicity of _silentia noctis_, through the "favour and prettiness" (slightly tautological though) of the Virgilian _tacitae per amica silentia lunae_, to the recovery and intensifying of magnificence in _dove il sol tace_. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • If it so wer, that Lucius Brutus, that noble and famous manne were on liue, and before your presence: would he not vse this oracion: I Brutus, somtyme did banishe and cast out for crueltee, the state and office of kinges, by the horrible fact of Tarquinius, againste Lucretia, and all that name bani - shed, but you haue brought in tyrauntes. A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
  • Lucretius is constantly urging his readers to follow their “sagacious” wits to the truth, like dogs hunting down quarry through the underbrush. The Nose Knows : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • Lucretius, a Roman poet whose philosophy to Santayana escaped both the irrational optimism of traditional idealism and the scientific finalities of raw materialism. Dan Miller: "Harvard, We Have a Problem"
  • Filbert" is a corruption of "full beard," and refers to the involucre extending beyond the nut. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915
  • Two in Shakespeare — and I see that one of these: “And every one to rest themselves betakes,” from the poem Lucrece was actually published in the original 1594 edition, and a second edition, as “And every one to rest himselve betakes,” being changed — by author? by printer? The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence
  • Quid prodest homini, si vniuersum Mundum lucretur, animæ autem suæ detrimentum patiatur? The Dance of Death
  • Lucretia he was acquainted, in which he derives the name Lucretia from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
  • But it's money, filthy lucre -- getting or spending or something... ` THE GOLDEN LION
  • She throws open the flood-gates of her heart as in words recalling Lucretius: Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama
  • Lucrezia twirled, letting the peacock feathers that were skewered through her brown, upswept hair hit our noses.
  • We used to help my grandmother gather the flowers, remove the green involucre from beneath the flowerhead and separate the rays, or florets.
  • Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: ’tis my lady. Act II. Scene V. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will
  • The elver may be fishy lucre to the hardy but for the rest of us it is easier to keep the day job. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • Attention was once more turned to affairs of State, and after one or two interregna had expired, P. Valerius Publicola, who had been interrex for two days, conducted the election of L. Lucretius Tricipitinus and T. Veturius Geminus-or Vetusius-as consuls. The History of Rome, Vol. I
  • Two in Shakespeare — and I see that one of these: “And every one to rest themselves betakes,” from the poem Lucrece was actually published in the original 1594 edition, and a second edition, as “And every one to rest himselve betakes,” being changed — by author? The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence
  • I don't want to lose my health for the sake of filthy lucre.
  • I have reflected, and I feel that I cannot set to Lucretia -- set to children unborn -- the example of indifference to a name degraded and a race adulterated; you may call this pride or prejudice, -- I view it differently. Lucretia — Volume 01
  • But at least most of us don't have to earn our lucre by taking bribes at refugee centres and metro police roadblocks.
  • In these the involucre is little altered, and the receptacle is attacked by larva. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • Compare Lucretius II 300-1 'et quae consuerint gigni gignentur eadem/_condicione_ et erunt et crescent uique ualebunt'. The Last Poems of Ovid
  • Gamaliel," said Miss Lucretia, "I want to see the prudential committee for the village district. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
  • My eldest sister is Stella Verena, I'm Holly Genevieve and my middle sister is Tara Lucretia. JUST BETWEEN US
  • You don't doubt that he's partly motivated by lucre, since he often prods his clients to gamble on hitting the jackpot by opting for a jury trial rather than a settlement offer.
  • Robbie Williams She's Madonna www. bellezzegossip.com I made this video for Lucrezia of the famous bellezze gossip website. WN.com - Articles related to Madonna turns photographer
  • Although it was probably merely the name Lucretia which Ariosto and other poets used -- comparing it with the classic ideal of feminine honor -- it is, nevertheless, difficult wholly to reject the interpretation of Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
  • They declared it was immoral to sell absolution in exchange for tainted lucre.
  • Fistula dulce canit, volucrem cum decipit auceps. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
  • I thought of Lucrezia Borgia's "Brindisi"; but that instantly went out of my mind. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
  • Lucrecia Martel, Paula Hernandez, Vanessa Ragone and Julia Solomonoff represent the clearest example of a new generation that is changing the face of cinema.
  • Three of the twenty 'dedicatory' sonnets merely translate into the language of poetry the expressions of devotion which had already done duty in the dedicatory epistle in prose that prefaces 'Lucrece.' A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
  • All flowers are enclosed within an involucre with four marginal glands.
  • From the fact that the vital fluid is born with the body, that it grows, develops, and declines along with it, Lucretius infers that the fluid must also be dissolved simultaneously with the body, scattered into the air like smoke: — "ergo dissolvi quoque convenit omnem animai naturam, ceu fumus, in altas aëris auras; quandoquidem gigni pariter pariterque videmus crescere et, ut docui, simul ævo fessa fatisci. Lunheng
  • Do not you believe that twenty name Lucretius because of the poetic commencement of his books, for five that wade through his philosophy? The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
  • he would sell his soul for filthy lucre
  • Roman Philosopher Lucretius wrote: What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
  • A blistering attack on Lucretius' republican Epicurean poem underlies the poet's passionate Stoic hymns to the mystical order governing the multiplicity and diversity of creation.
  • Dr. Mason Good translated "Lucretius" while riding to visit his patients in London. Pushing to the Front
  • More pertinently, the gap between Figgis's vision of the historical Lucrezia as inherently victimised and Donizetti's view of her as a self-willed monster redeemed by maternal love is too great. Lucrezia Borgia - review
  • As Lucretius has stated, naught from naught can be created.
  • So little on the subject exists in these “studies” that Balhorn is reduced to giving a prominent place, in quotes, to the same Shakespeare quote from Lucrece that I have previously noted, without bothering to mention that “themselves” was originally written as “himselve,” so that it barely counts as a real instance atall. The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence
  • At I 313-16, Lucretius, discussing the invisible wearing away of substances, says 'stilicidi casus _lapidem_ cauat, uncus aratri/_ferreus_ occulte decrescit uomer in aruis,/strataque iam uolgi pedibus detrita uiarum/saxea conspicimus'. The Last Poems of Ovid
  • Comments are moderated, and will not appear until the author has approved them. meanwhile, 'matters arising' continues with his 'metamorphoses' series and also displays art about the rape of lucretia updated Roman History Books and More
  • Christine also rewrote the stories themselves, challenging the interpretations of contemporary male authors, who held up Lucretia's suicide, for example, as a virtuous defense of honor and maidenhood.
  • Tort reform, for example, attracts millions in campaign lucre from corporate leaders while undermining trial lawyers, a major Democratic support base.
  • Nonetheless, they open insurgencies to the prospect of lucre, and this carries at least two implications.
  • But he stresses there's a little more to it than just lucre.
  • Many people are attracted to power and wealth (as we saw in Lucretius) because such qualities give us an apparent feeling of security and release us from fear. Fear Makes The World Go Round
  • You don't doubt that he's partly motivated by lucre, since he often prods his clients to gamble on hitting the jackpot by opting for a jury trial rather than a settlement offer.
  • The cupules are simple involucres of bracts which are spirally arranged (according to a Fibonacci pattern) on the floral axis preceding the flower.
  • But, are the owners really concerned about the safety of the people in the residential areas, where the animal is paraded in the quest for lucre?

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