"Causa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... circumstances are curious. Philips begged that he might have the benefit of the king's writ of corpus cum causa, and be brought to the bar of the House of Commons, where the Bishop of London should be subpoenaed to meet him. [Petition of Thomas Philips: Rolls House MS.] The Commons did not venture on so strong a measure; but a digest ...
— History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. • James Anthony Froude
... answers by the event. Lucan, in a well known passage, takes it for granted that the cause of Csar had the approbation of the gods. And why? Simply from the event. It was notoriously the triumphant cause. It was victorious, (victrix causa Deis placuit; sed victa Catoni.) It was the 'victrix causa;' and, as such, simply because it was 'victrix,' it had a right in his eyes to postulate the divine favor as mere matter of necessary interference: whilst, on the other hand, the victa causa, though it seemed to Lucan sanctioned ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... scimus iam nos, si hi spectatores sciant. Horunc hic nunc causa haec agitur spectatorum fabula: Hos te satius est docere ut, quando agas, quid agas sciant. Nos tu ne curassis: scimus rem omnem, quippe omnes simul. Didicimus tecum ...
— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • Wilton Wallace Blancke
... delectandi causa finxerunt, quasdam ad naturam rerum, nonnullas ad mores hominum interpretati ...
— Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance - A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism • Donald Lemen Clark
... his books, Fadrique Aleman de Basilea) was busy printing books at Burgos from the end of the fourteenth to the second decade of the fifteenth century; his Mark, across resting on a V-shaped ground, is a poor one, the motto being "sine causa nihil." "En mushos libros de los que imprimi puso su escudo," observes Mendez; this printer possesses an historic interest from the fact that he issued the first edition the unabridged "Chronicle of the Cid," 1512—"Cronica del Famoso Cauallero Cid Ruy Diez Campeador," ...
— Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography • William Roberts
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