conatus

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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Ter conatus ibi eollo dare brachia eircum, Ter frustra eomprensa manus effugit imago, Par levibus ventis voluerique simillima sommo.

From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Cary, Henry Francis

This desire is the perpetual conatus of that love, from which flow all its effects.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

Cuius omnes curse, cogitationes, conatus, hue fpeflant, haec verfant, in his inhaerent.

From Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Stevens, Henry

Libera me de manu adversariorum meorum: confunde ingenia et conatus eorum contra me.

From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by Tyler, James Endell