"Causa" Quotes from Famous Books
... en su mente.) 1025 No puedo explicrtelo!... Siento en mi cabeza un desvanecimiento, una debilidad... Principio de anemia, por causa de la ... — Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... construction of this passage is the same as that of Il. [Greek: D] 155. [Greek: thanaton ny toi horki' etamnon]. "Foedus, quod pepigi, tibi mortis causa est." PORSON. ... — The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides
... preference to a lesser good in the present, and we may seek a lesser evil in the present in preference to a greater evil in the future. "Maltim praesens minus prae majori futuro." (Van Vloten). Bruder reads: "Malum praesens minus, quod causa est faturi alicujus mali." The last word of the latter is an obvious misprint, and is corrected by the Dutch translator into "majoris boni." ... — Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata - Part I: Concerning God • Benedict de Spinoza
... cadunt, pondere suo tract¾. Nec est dissimile vero, quasdam conglobatas esse ex materia f¾culent, in ipsam auram ¾theream immixta: exque atheris regione, tractu rectilineo, per arem trajicere, ceu minutos competas, occult causa motus utrorumque." — Kepler, 'Epit. Astron. Copernican¾', ... — COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt
... inflicted for one and the same sin, according to Nahum 1:9: "God will not judge the same twice" [*Septuagint version]. Now some receive a temporal punishment for the sin of schism, according to 23, qu. 5 [*Gratianus, Decretum, P. II, causa XXIII, qu. 5, can. 44, Quali nos (RP I, 943)], where it is stated: "Both divine and earthly laws have laid down that those who are severed from the unity of the Church, and disturb her peace, ... — Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... at the convent of the Incarnation, contain the following rule with regard to the reception and training of novices: [8] Consulimus quod recipiendus ante susceptionem habitus expediat se de omnibus quae habet in saeculo nisi ex causa rationabili per priorem generalem vel provincialem fuerit aliter ordinatum. There was, indeed, good reason in the case of St. Teresa to postpone these legal matters. Her father was much opposed to her becoming a nun, but considering his piety it might ... — The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila
... message to Gaul, perhaps to prevent his invasion, still pretended to fight for their liberties, and to oppose his descent on their island. [Footnote: Caesar questus, quod quum ultro in continentem legatis missis pacem a se petissent, bellum sine causa intulissent. Lib. 4.] ... — An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition • Adam Ferguson, L.L.D.
... is not with Persons, but with Campion. His book was finished and sent up to Persons in March, 1581, with a title altered to suit the controversy which had already begun. It was now Decem Rationes: quibus fretus, certamen adversariis obtulit in causa Fidei, Edmundus Campianus &c. "Ten Reasons, for the confidence with which Edmund Campion offered his adversaries to dispute on behalf of the Faith, set before the famous men of our Universities." Persons was charmed, as he had expected to be, with its literary ... — Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name • Edmund Campion
... which has made me so long hesitate, always feeling that the case of Man and his Races, and of other animals, and that of plants, is one and the same, and that if a vera causa be admitted for one instant, [instead] of a purely unknown and imaginary one, such as the word 'creation,' all the consequences ... — The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin
... limen intraveram cum antiquissimorum librorum vel solus conspectus religionem, nescio an stuporem, animo incuteret meo; eaque de causa, pedem paullulum sistebam. Leland, De Script. ... — The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... Would you have the power to send your wife's lover off by securing his promotion, or his change of residence by an exchange, if he is a military man? You cut off by this means all communication between them; later on we will show you how to do it; for sublata causa tollitur effectus,—Latin words which may be freely translated "there is no effect ... — Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac |