Word: sine
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...begin with, I will lay down the rule that there must be some natural facility in adaptation and appropriation besides originality, which is admitted to be a sine qua non. One must have the faculty of selection in its highest development. We ourselves are living illustrations of the law of "The Survival of the Fittest" in its grossest and most palpable application. This law we must apply to the higher and (if I may) more aesthetic province of dress and manners. The theory that manners are the exponents of the feelings, and that the good heart shows itself in good...
...status quo of Cornell is lower than it has been at any preceding time.' - Review. The writer evidently thinks that the sine qua non, the multum in parvo, and the sine die still maintain their old standard, but we are unable to glean from the article whether the e pluribus unum and the et tu Brute of Cornell are on the rise or decline, although the reference to the `sub judice questions' may cover the ground." - Yale Courant...
Student (anticipating the regular joke). Please tell me what verb is omitted in this passage, "Di majorum umbris tenuem et sine pondere terram...
Immediately Fine Arts suggested itself as the most high-toned thing on which to begin. So I commenced looking around for some favorable investment in this line. Firmly convinced of the truth of the proverb, "Palma non sine argento per vias rectas," my small board fairly burned in my pocket, while I was searching for some good introduction to this unknown land...
Sponte sua, sine lege, fidem rectumque colebat...