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His plea or pretence, that he was sheltered by the superior grossness of Ariosto and La Fontaine, of Prior and of Fielding, is nihil ad rem, if it is not insincere.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
This is a trick which ought to be one of the first; it is, at bottom, an expedient by which an argumentum ad hominem is put forward as an argumentum ad rem.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
The right to product is exclusive—jus in re; the right to means is common—jus ad rem.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
But why have not those, who in later times have established the distinction between jus in re and jus ad rem, applied it to the principle of property itself?
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
In writing, he thinks of nothing but his idea and the person whom he addresses: ad rem et ad hominem.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
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