conatus
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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
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
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
It also follows that there is a conatus more interior, that is, the conatus to produce uses for the animal kingdom through vegetable growths, since by these animals of every kind are nourished.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
That this is so may still seem doubtful, because not illustrated by applications to sensible and perceptible things in nature; nevertheless, such is the progression of conatus, force, and motion into power.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John