Usar "nisus" en una oración

1. * Even such conspicuously able men as Professors Helmholtz, Haeckel, and Huxley—men of lofty genius, and far from a disposition towards moral atheism—prefer to account, with Diderot, for the structure of the eye-system in living creatures by referring solely to a nisus in nature, rather than by open reference to One Eternal Power who 'formed’ it,—who could 'see,’ before all worlds, and beyond them

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2. I may add that they say the author left it on record that he likened their friendship to that of Nisus and Euryalus, and Pylades and Orestes; and if that be so, it may be perceived, to the admiration of mankind, how firm the friendship must have been between these two peaceful animals, shaming men, who preserve friendships with one another so badly

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3. Must we accept the view of Empedocles of Trinacria that the right ovary (the postmenstrual period, assert others) is responsible for the birth of males or are the too long neglected spermatozoa or nemasperms the differentiating factors or is it, as most embryologists incline to opine, such as Culpepper, Spallanzani, Blumenbach, Lusk, Hertwig, Leopold and Valenti, a mixture of both? This would be tantamount to a cooperation (one of nature's favourite devices) between the nisus formativus of the nemasperm on the one hand and on the other a happily chosen position, succubitus felix of the passive element

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4. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja

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5. For the episode of Nisus see Aen

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