conatus

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum, Ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

And since good and evil are opposites, there is an intermediate, and in it an equilibrium, in which evil acts against good; but as it does not prevail, it stops in a conatus.

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

The image of the Infinite in these forms is plain from their conatus and power to fill the spaces of the whole world, and even of many worlds, to infinity.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

Itaque ad hujusmodi conatus nolite expavescere; jam enim toties eorum calumniae repulsae sunt, ut nihil nunc agant, quam vetera ut nova proponere, instaurare disjecta, detecta retexere.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865 by Various