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 attraction, a kind of conatus accedendi, is the crown, according to the eighteenth century, of the series of secondary causes.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

But let application of this be made to living conatus, and to living force, and to living motion.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum, Ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred