Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1147

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1147. The words also into which the meaning falls are flowing; in these words they do not admit many consonants, because they retard the flow, as certain consonants do. Accordingly, I am not now allowed to write flumen, but fluvium,* and so in other cases. * Both these Latin words mean a river or stream.


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