principium

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Præter harpam aliud instrumenti genus sibi peculiare Norwallenses vindicant, quod Crwth vocant—Hinc verbum Anglicum Crowdero apud Hudibrastum pro Fiddler, or Player upon the Violin, ad quod Crwth principium dedisse videtur. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

We see that for such a just man the principium individuationis is no longer, as in the case of the bad man, an absolute wall of partition.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

So we also hold that from the ever-clearer penetration of the principium individuationis proceeds, first, merely free justice, then love, extending to the complete abolition of egoism, and finally resignation or denial of the will.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

“Est caro nostra cinis modo principium modo finis.”

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

We have called time and space the principium individuationis, because only through them and in them is multiplicity of the homogeneous possible.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur