The citation ledger

1. Iliad 40 citations · from 20 works
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   But the poetry of Homer alone do I truly see to be noble, magnificent, and kingly, the poetry to which a man ought to give his mind—above all a man who is to rule over whatever men there may be anywhere, or, failing that, over the most numerous and most renowned;

2. Psalms 99 citations · from 19 works
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   " And let each of these, after the manner of blessed David, sing with thanksgiving:

3. Book of Isaiah 72 citations · from 19 works
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   Isaiah, even then an apostle, foreseeing heretical hearts, says:

4. Genesis 59 citations · from 19 works
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   It is enough that the very ones whom he saves, found to be of an imperfect salvation, show his goodness to be imperfect — saved, namely, only as to the soul, lost as to the flesh, which with him does not rise again.

5. Gospel of Matthew 54 citations · from 18 works
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   "Go, make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

6. Epistle to the Romans 52 citations · from 18 works
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   " For "when the nations that do not have the Law do by nature the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves" — the uncircumcision keeping the ordinances of the Law, according to the Apostle, both before the Law and before the coming.

7. First Epistle to the Corinthians 53 citations · from 17 works
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   "Which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit.

8. Acts of the Apostles 33 citations · from 17 works
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   For, it is said, the heart and soul of those who believed was one.

9. Gospel of John 41 citations · from 15 works
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   But if the Son frees you, you will be free," and "the truth will free you.

10. Epistle to the Galatians 33 citations · from 15 works
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    for to me the world has been crucified, and I to the world, as my divine teacher says.

11. Book of Jeremiah 39 citations · from 14 works
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    But when, on coming into Cilicia and meeting a certain Gelasius, he set forth to him a creed which only Arius, or some genuine disciple of his, could have composed, then indeed we were the more confirmed in our separation, reckoning that neither will the Ethiopian ever change his skin, nor the leopard his spots, nor can one bred up in perverse doctrines wash off the evil of his heresy.

12. Odyssey 33 citations · from 14 works
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    Nor does he feast the suitors on fish, exceedingly wanton and luxurious as they were, and that though they were feasting in Ithaca.

13. Book of Daniel 23 citations · from 14 works
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    "And behold, with the clouds of heaven, as the son of man, coming, he came even to the Ancient of days, and was present in his sight;

14. Commentaries on the Laws of England 44 citations · from 12 works
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    It hath been the endeavour of these commentaries, however the execution may have succeeded, to examine its solid foundations, to mark out its extensive plan, to explain the use and distribution of its parts, and from the harmonious concurrence of those several parts, to demonstrate the elegant proportion of the whole.

15. Laws 26 citations · from 12 works
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    In the Laws, indeed, Plato — that philosopher sprung from the Hebrews — bids the farmers neither to draw water for irrigation nor to take it from others, unless they have first dug for themselves down to the so-called virgin soil and found the ground without water.

16. Deuteronomy 24 citations · from 12 works
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    " "For, in order to teach you his righteousness," it says, "he disciplined you and tested you and made you hunger and made you thirst in a desert land, that all his ordinances and judgments might be known in your heart, all that I command you today;

17. Second Epistle to the Corinthians 24 citations · from 10 works
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    "I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people," if we conduct ourselves according to the commandments, whether each of us severally or the whole Church together.

18. The Gospel of Luke 21 citations · from 10 works
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    And the pure Gospel said:

19. First Epistle of John 18 citations · from 10 works
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    And John too, in the greater Epistle, plainly teaches the differences of sins in these words:

20. Ezekiel 17 citations · from 10 works
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    " Again the Lord shows plainly that both the trespasses and the offences are in our power, laying down modes of cure corresponding to the passions, wishing us to be set right by the shepherds, through Ezekiel, blaming certain of them, I think, for the things in which they did not keep the commandments:

21. Leviticus 12 citations · from 10 works
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    both that in Leviticus, forbidding the priests to be present even at the last rites of parents ("Over every dead soul," it says, "the priest shall not enter, and over his own father he shall not be defiled"), and that of consecration in Numbers;

22. the Gospel 26 citations · from 9 works
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    For it is said, "to him who has it shall be added"—to faith, knowledge;

23. Exodus 24 citations · from 9 works
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    Hence Moses, persuaded that God would never be known by human wisdom, says:

24. Epistle to the Ephesians 22 citations · from 9 works
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    " All things, then, are ordered from above for good, "that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God may be made known," according to the foreknowledge of the ages, "which he wrought in Christ.

25. Ecclesiastes 12 citations · from 9 works
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    "There is a time to be silent, and a time to speak," says the word of Ecclesiastes.

26. Twelve Tables 40 citations · from 8 works
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    In the Twelve Tables the law of contract is still in a rudimentary stage.

27. First Epistle to Timothy 17 citations · from 8 works
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    "This charge I commit to you, child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before upon you, that you may war in them the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some, having thrust away, have made shipwreck concerning the faith," because they defiled with unbelief the conscience that came from God.

28. Epistle to the Philippians 14 citations · from 8 works
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    For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

29. Works and Days 12 citations · from 8 works
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    "for thrice ten thousand are upon the bountiful earth the immortal demons, guardians of mortal men.

30. Jonah 9 citations · from 8 works
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    rather we still hold to the zeal that is possible for us, knowing that he too who was swallowed by the sea-monster, because he did not despair of himself but cried out to the Lord, was counted worthy of salvation.

31. Proverbs 34 citations · from 7 works
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    " Examined in other passages, however, the Scriptures cited present themselves as indicating other mysteries.

32. Book of Job 17 citations · from 7 works
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    "No one is clean from filth," says Job, "not even if his life be one day.

33. Veda 17 citations · from 7 works
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    From fire, wind, and the sun, he milked forth the triple eternal Veda—distinguished as Ṛc, Yajus, and Saman—for the accomplishment of the sacrifice.

34. Epistle to the Colossians 15 citations · from 7 works
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    "In Christ you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.

35. Timaeus 11 citations · from 7 works
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    And in the Timaeus he brings in the most wise Solon learning from the barbarian.

36. Homeric poetry 8 citations · from 7 works
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    You know, doubtless, that the sage Homer has written about practically everything pertaining to man.

37. Laws of Solon 8 citations · from 7 works
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    The old law of Solon, to which Demosthenes, in his speech against Timocrates, appeals, agrees with it.

38. Institutes 26 citations · from 6 works
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    In the same title of the Institutes, Justinian mentions that an heir might either be appointed to take the whole of an inheritance or to share it with other co-heirs in any proportions.

39. Histories 23 citations · from 6 works
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    Polybius, relating the manner in which men first entered into society, concludes, that the injuries done to parents or benefactors inevitably provoke the indignation of mankind, giving an additional reason, that as understanding and reflection form the great difference between men and other animals, it is evident they cannot transgress the bounds of that difference like other animals, without exci …

40. Aeneid 22 citations · from 6 works
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    Would you suppose that Virgil ever recited to such a man the line, "Is it then so wretched a thing to die?

41. First Epistle to the Thessalonians 11 citations · from 6 works
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    For we have not been allowed to grieve over those who have fallen asleep as the outsiders do, by the law the Apostle has laid down for us.

42. Numbers 10 citations · from 6 works
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    And again, the same Moses — after the likeness of every thing had been forbidden — why did he set forth a brazen serpent placed upon a tree, in the posture of one hanging, for a saving spectacle?

43. Republic 10 citations · from 6 works
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    He seems to me also to have misheard Plato, who in the Republic says that the women are common to all—meaning that those who have not yet married are common to those who would ask for them, just as a theatre is common to all the spectators, but that each woman, once a man has secured her first, belongs to that man, and the married woman is no longer common.

44. Epistle to the Hebrews 17 citations · from 5 works
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    "By faith we understand that the ages were framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not come from things that appear," says the Apostle.

45. Annals 15 citations · from 5 works
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    Nero at the beginning of his reign in 54 a.

46. Roman Law 13 citations · from 5 works
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    Muirhead, Roman Law, §§ 26, 28.

47. Zechariah 12 citations · from 5 works
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    "And Judah shall set himself before Jerusalem and shall gather all the valour of the peoples round about, gold and silver.

48. Book of Amos 11 citations · from 5 works
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    Of which Amos says:

49. Hosea 11 citations · from 5 works
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    "And I will turn away all her joys and her feast days and her new moons and her sabbaths and all her ceremonies.

50. the Veda 11 citations · from 5 works
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    Having made that resolve, the king, together with his company of preceptors, learned in the Vedas in the matter of the sacrifice, began to prepare to perform the rite.

51. The Qur'an 10 citations · from 5 works
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    [5] (1) The sciences of the readings are among the noblest of the sciences, for their attachment to the Wise Qur'an, by which the Muslims are made happy when they hold fast to its guidance in the affairs of both worlds, and by which they meet humiliation and misery if they cast it behind their backs.

52. First Epistle of Peter 8 citations · from 5 works
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    "Beloved, I exhort you as sojourners and pilgrims to abstain from the fleshly desires, which war against the soul, keeping your conduct good among the nations;

53. Second Epistle to Timothy 8 citations · from 5 works
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    "Do not, then, be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner," he writes to Timothy.

54. Statute of Frauds 8 citations · from 5 works
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    the fourth section of the Statute of Frauds, though they originally introduced some new rule or principle into the law of England, have been the subject of so much judicial interpretation as to derive nearly all their real significance from the sense put upon them by the Courts.

55. Book of Malachi 7 citations · from 5 works
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    For if He was turned, then He was also altered.

56. Epistle to the Corinthians 7 citations · from 5 works
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    "That which eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man;

57. Revelation 6 citations · from 5 works
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    and even if here on earth he be not honoured with the first seat, he shall sit on the four-and-twenty thrones, judging the people, as John says in the Revelation.

58. 2 Thessalonians 5 citations · from 5 works
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    Is this perhaps the last hour, and is the apostasy through these things gaining its entrance, so that henceforth the lawless one, the son of perdition, the adversary, may be revealed, who exalts himself above all that is called God or is worshipped?

59. Apocalypse of John 5 citations · from 5 works
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    the first heaven and the first earth have gone away, and place was not found for them — because, namely, that which comes to an end loses its place too.

60. Commentaries 5 citations · from 5 works
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    “It was this equitable principle of the wife’s separate estate which formed the model of the legal separate estate created by the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1870 and 1882.

1. Homer 234 citations · from 54 works
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   But the poetry of Homer alone do I truly see to be noble, magnificent, and kingly, the poetry to which a man ought to give his mind—above all a man who is to rule over whatever men there may be anywhere, or, failing that, over the most numerous and most renowned;

2. Athenian law 128 citations · from 43 works
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   You have passed a law, fellow citizens, governing the men who steer the boats across the strait to Salamis;

3. Plato 195 citations · from 34 works
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   "Great is Greece, O Cebes, in which there are everywhere good men, and many too are the races of the barbarians.

4. Solon 62 citations · from 34 works
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   The old law of Solon, to which Demosthenes, in his speech against Timocrates, appeals, agrees with it.

5. Aristotle 123 citations · from 29 works
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   The general demand for any thing, as Aristotle has clearly proved, constitutes the true measure of its value, which may be seen particularly from the practice prevailing among barbarous nations of exchanging one thing for another.

6. Moses 187 citations · from 28 works
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   It is enough that the very ones whom he saves, found to be of an imperfect salvation, show his goodness to be imperfect — saved, namely, only as to the soul, lost as to the flesh, which with him does not rise again.

7. Paul 220 citations · from 23 works
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   "Which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit.

8. Epicurus 122 citations · from 23 works
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   Epicurus himself, the very censurer of Stilbo, uttered a like saying, which you must take in good part, even though I have already cancelled today's debt.

9. David 92 citations · from 21 works
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   " And let each of these, after the manner of blessed David, sing with thanksgiving:

10. Hesiod 47 citations · from 19 works
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    "for thrice ten thousand are upon the bountiful earth the immortal demons, guardians of mortal men.

11. Isaiah 73 citations · from 18 works
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    Isaiah, even then an apostle, foreseeing heretical hearts, says:

12. Euripides 64 citations · from 18 works
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    "And I understand what evils I am about to do, but my anger is stronger than my counsels.

13. John 55 citations · from 18 works
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    But if the Son frees you, you will be free," and "the truth will free you.

14. Socrates 31 citations · from 18 works
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    hence arose Socrates’ notion that Courage is Knowledge.

15. Democritus 34 citations · from 17 works
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    that the senses were narrow, the minds weak, the courses of life short, and—as Democritus said—that truth was sunk in the deep, that all things were held by opinions and conventions, that nothing was left to truth;

16. Witnesses 31 citations · from 16 works
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    Kindly call witnesses to confirm what I have been saying.

17. the poets 17 citations · from 16 works
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    but as for the man of passion — his foot bears him off to wherever the heart inclines

18. Cicero 152 citations · from 15 works
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    It was only, however, a form of release from verbal obligations, but Aquihus Gallus, the colleague of Cicero in his praetorship, the pupil of Quintus Mucius and teacher of Servius Sulpicius, the inventor of formulas relating to dolus malus, Cic.

19. Jeremiah 43 citations · from 15 works
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    But when, on coming into Cilicia and meeting a certain Gelasius, he set forth to him a creed which only Arius, or some genuine disciple of his, could have composed, then indeed we were the more confirmed in our separation, reckoning that neither will the Ethiopian ever change his skin, nor the leopard his spots, nor can one bred up in perverse doctrines wash off the evil of his heresy.

20. Zeno 24 citations · from 15 works
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    And in these things, roughly, consisted the whole change and disagreement of Zeno from his predecessors.

21. Apollo 22 citations · from 15 works
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    This oracle in no sort of way resembles the one Apollo dictated to me:

22. Paul the Apostle 81 citations · from 14 works
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    As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God, says the divine Apostle.

23. Jesus Christ 73 citations · from 14 works
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    For "everyone," it says, "who takes the sword shall die by the sword.

24. God 71 citations · from 14 works
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    when I had finished the refining of the epistle entitled al-Zawrāʼ — which comprises select portions of the realities and the cream of the subtleties, and which is among the singular things of the age, since it contains secrets whose veil had not been drawn back until now, indeed virgins 'whom no man nor jinn has touched before them,' and which was summary and knotty, its recalcitrant passages res …

25. Demosthenes 39 citations · from 14 works
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    Demosthenes in his speech against Aristocrates, exclaims, “By all that is sacred, is it not a dreadful and open violation of law, not only of written law, but of that law which is the unwritten rule of all men, to be debarred from the right of using force against the robber as well as against the enemy;

26. Manu 66 citations · from 13 works
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    this is the opinion of Manu.

27. Solomon 63 citations · from 13 works
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    " Examined in other passages, however, the Scriptures cited present themselves as indicating other mysteries.

28. Chrysippus 37 citations · from 13 works
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    How many things he said against the senses, how many against all that is approved in common usage!

29. the Stoics 29 citations · from 13 works
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    They compose, then, first a certain art concerning the things we call impressions, and define both the force and the kinds of them, among these what kind a thing is that can be perceived and comprehended — in just as many words as the Stoics.

30. Sophocles 25 citations · from 13 works
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    This is how Sophocles outrages me in his tragedies.

31. William Blackstone 37 citations · from 12 works
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    It hath been the endeavour of these commentaries, however the execution may have succeeded, to examine its solid foundations, to mark out its extensive plan, to explain the use and distribution of its parts, and from the harmonious concurrence of those several parts, to demonstrate the elegant proportion of the whole.

32. Pythagoras 28 citations · from 12 works
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    And it seems to me that Pythagoras too took the gentleness toward the irrational animals from the law.

33. Heraclitus 25 citations · from 12 works
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    " Hence Heraclitus chose for himself one thing in place of all—glory—but the many, he says, glut themselves like cattle.

34. Aeschylus 22 citations · from 12 works
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    We ourselves asked for this transformation, and, as Aeschylus has it, These are no borrowed feathers, but truly our own.

35. Muhammad 72 citations · from 11 works
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    “When God wills good for a servant, He appoints him an admonisher out of his own soul.

36. Ennius 33 citations · from 11 works
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    What of your own Alcmeon, who denies that his heart agrees with his eyes — does he not in the same place, his madness roused, cry, "whence rises this flame?

37. Matthew 26 citations · from 11 works
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    "Go, make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

38. Daniel 21 citations · from 11 works
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    "And behold, with the clouds of heaven, as the son of man, coming, he came even to the Ancient of days, and was present in his sight;

39. Sir Edward Coke 30 citations · from 10 works
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    ” Coke, founding apparently on these fourteenth–century statutes, makes “per legem terrae” equivalent to “by due process of law” and that again to “by indictment or presentment of good and lawful men,” thus finding the grand jury enshrined in Magna Carta.

40. Luke 29 citations · from 10 works
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    And the pure Gospel said:

41. Athenian people 27 citations · from 10 works
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    For ambassadors from Thebes are here, ambassadors from Lacedaemonia have arrived, and here are we with a decree of the people in which it stands written, ‘The ambassadors shall also negotiate concerning any other good thing that may be within their power.

42. Isocrates 27 citations · from 10 works
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    Well, then, does Isocrates in the Panathenaicus, having put the question "Whom, then, do I call educated?

43. Pindar 18 citations · from 10 works
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    but engrave these verses of Pindar's on your mind.

44. Parliament of England 67 citations · from 9 works
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    Neither the Chairman of a Court of Referees, nor even the Umpire, has the security of tenure conferred on every judge of the High Court under the Act of Settlement.

45. Tacitus 39 citations · from 9 works
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    Nero at the beginning of his reign in 54 a.

46. Seneca 35 citations · from 9 works
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    On this subject, Seneca remarks that, as all the members of the human body agree among themselves, because the preservation of each conduces to the welfare of the whole, so men should forbear from mutual injuries, as they were born for society, which cannot subsist unless all the parts of it are defended by mutual forbearance and good will.

47. Athenian lawgiver 27 citations · from 9 works
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    This is why the lawgiver placed first in the jurors’ oath these words, I will vote according to the laws.

48. the Evangelists 25 citations · from 9 works
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    Although, if you receive the gospel of truth, you will know to whom that sentence pertains, of Him who renders to the sons the sins of the fathers — namely to those who were of their own accord about to imprecate this sentence upon themselves:

49. Christ 22 citations · from 9 works
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    For even though this testimony too of Christ against the Creator Marcion dared to erase from the gospel, yet the very world is inscribed with it and is read of by every conscience.

50. Cleanthes 22 citations · from 9 works
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    and who now praise Cleanthes, who drew water from the well for hire, by which he both kept himself alive and paid wages to his teachers.

51. Empedocles 17 citations · from 9 works
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    But inasmuch as the last premise, which originates action, is an opinion as to some object of sense, and it is this opinion which the unrestrained man when under the influence of passion either does not possess, or only possesses in a way which as we saw does not amount to knowing it but only makes him repeat it as the drunken man repeats the maxims of Empedocles, and since the ultimate term is no …

52. Hippocrates 9 citations · from 9 works
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    Cicero says that Hippocrates, the most renowned physician, left it in writing that he suspected certain brothers to be twins, since, when they had begun to fall ill at the same time and their disease grew worse at the same time and abated at the same time.

53. Justinian 119 citations · from 8 works
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    Finally, Justinian enacted ut omnibus legatis una sit natura, Inst.

54. English Parliament 34 citations · from 8 works
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    The Combination Act of 1825 certainly was not inconsistent with the existence both of trade unions and of strikes.

55. Paul (the Apostle) 34 citations · from 8 works
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    rather, in the case of women we find much strictness, the Apostle saying, "He that is joined to a harlot is one body," and Jeremiah, "If a wife belong to another man, she shall not return to her husband, but being defiled she shall be defiled," and again, "He that keeps an adulteress is foolish and impious.

56. Carneades 21 citations · from 8 works
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    This New Academy, carried down as far as Carneades, who was fourth from Arcesilas, remained in the same method of Arcesilas.

57. Valentinus 18 citations · from 8 works
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    For this impiety is no newer than the docetic heresy, but began long ago from the vain-minded Valentinus, who, having torn away a few phrases of the apostle, contrived for himself an impious fabrication — saying that the Lord took the form of a servant, and not the servant himself, and saying that the Lord came to be in fashion, but not that He Himself assumed the man.

58. Tertullian 17 citations · from 8 works
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    6), and Tertullian, the father of the Church, who was noted for his knowledge of Roman law, and possibly was identical with the jurist of that name, of whom five fragments are preserved in the Digest, speaks of infamia as capitis minutio, De Spectaculis, 22, Scenicos manifeste damnant ignominia et capitis deminutio.

59. Blackstone 15 citations · from 8 works
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    The use of the rod or wand as representative of the spear, the symbol of dominion, may be paralleled in English law by the delivery of a staff as the symbol of power and possession in the conveyance of copyholds.

60. Ezekiel 15 citations · from 8 works
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    " Again the Lord shows plainly that both the trespasses and the offences are in our power, laying down modes of cure corresponding to the passions, wishing us to be set right by the shepherds, through Ezekiel, blaming certain of them, I think, for the things in which they did not keep the commandments:

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