conatus
Example Sentences
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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
Humphredus Gilbert Eques, Americ� oras Hifpanis incognitas, magno animo & viribus, fucceffu non aequali noftris aperire conatus eft.
From Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Stevens, Henry
It further follows that in all these there is an inmost conatus, the conatus to perform use to the human race.
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
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
