conatus
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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
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
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
This conatus is afterwards continuous from the lands through the root even to outmosts, and from outmosts to firsts, wherein use itself is in its origin.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
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