Citations:& hoc genus omne

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English citations of & hoc genus omne

Phrase: optional spelling of et hoc genus omne

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  • 1810, The Naval Chronicle, volume XXIV, page 392:
    "[...] trouble, delay, and expense"—have obtained from a legal course: he has preferred an amicable compromise of his injuries, to the “glorious uncertainty of the law :” What is that to the “Independent Whig,” & hoc genus omne ? - - ALFRED.
  • 2007, Mark Forsythe, Greg Dickson, The Trail of 1858: British Columbia's Gold Rush Past, Harbour Publishing Company, page 148, quoting one Lieutenant Wilson:
    The town, or rather I beg its pardon, city has sprung up like a mushroom, there are about 350 unhabitants, miners, gamblers, sharpers, Jews, Pikes, Yankees, loafers & hoc genus omne. There are a good many substantial log buildings, stores, gambling houses, grog shops, butcher's shops etc and a good supply of everything, []
  • 1904, William Weller Pepys, A Later Pepys, John Lane; Volume II, part six, page #68:
    They present Napoleon, while marching to, or retreating from, Moscow, Las Cases, & hoc Genus omne, paint him at Longwood, after his fall.
  • 1975, The Cambridge Review, volumes 97/98, page 69:
    [...] we shall be lectur'd to th' effect that the nannies & hoc genus omne had already been members of our trewe & authentick colleges but for the distemper of the commonweal & our better tutors their wickedness in preferring cheese to chalk.