"Capite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... adversus Pelagianos nisi infidelis affirmet? Dicimus ergo baptisma dare omnium indulgentiam peccatorum et auferre crimina, non radere; nec ut omnium peccatorum radices in mala carne teneantur, quasi rasorum in capite capillorum, unde crescunt ...
— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle
... above under Pyment, and the elaborate recipe for making it, in Household Ordinances, p.473, under the heading "Medicina optima et experta pro Stomacho et pro Capite in Antiquo hominem." Claret Wine, vinum sanguineum subrubrum, vel rubellum. Withals. "The seconde wine is pure Claret, of a cleare Iacent, or Yelow choler; this wine doth greatly norish and warme the body, and it is an holsome wine ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... of the company. This foolish, and often criminal complaisance flows from a foolish cause,—the want of any other merit. I hope that you will hold your place in company by a nobler tenure, and that you will hold it (you can bear a quibble, I believe, yet) 'in capite'. Have a will and an opinion of your own, and adhere to them steadily; but then do it with good humor, good-breeding, and (if you have it) with urbanity; for you have not yet heard enough ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield |
