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  • La couronne offre a ses sujets le symbole et la cause de la dignite, de la fidelite et de la justice.

    Dinner in Honour of The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario The Honourable Pauline McGibbon 1980

  • Wherfore the kyng, by the advyse ... [&c.] exactith that fro hensfforth the same erection and making of Duke, and all the names of dignite guyffen to the seid

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • J'aime mieux voir dans cette reserve un scrupule religieux du poete laissant a la morte sa dignite d'Ombre.

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

  • Faites leur aussi la reverence par quelque inclination de corps, autant que la dignite de chacun d'eux, & la belle coutume des enfants bien nourris, le semble exiger.

    George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890

  • Si vous estes assis, lors que quelq'vn vous vient rendre visite, leuez-vous des qu'il approche; si la dignite de la personne demande cette deference, comme s'il a quelque aduantage sur vous, s'il vous est egal, ou inferieur; mais non pas fort familier.

    George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890

  • Lors que vous addresserez des lettres a des personnes qui seront dans l'estime publique; vous vous gouuernerez aupres d'eux, selon la coustume du pays & le degre de leur dignite.

    George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890

  • [498] Il ne faut pas ici alleguer que nous ne sommes pas dignes: car il n'est point ici question de presenter nos prieres sur notre dignite mais seulement sur l'excellence Therefore it was only through diffidence that this practice of dishonoring instead of honoring the saints was introduced, doing that which they never have done nor required, but have, on the contrary, steadfastly rejected, according to their bounden duty, as appears by their writings.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Neither must we plead here our unworthiness; for the meaning is not that we should offer our prayers to God on account et la dignite de Jesus-Christ, [499] duquel la justice est notre par la foi. of our own worthiness, but only on account of the excellence and worthiness of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose righteousness is become ours by faith.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • And that we may thus be permitted, in de servir ` a celui qui vous a eleve en vostre dignite et grandeur. serving your Majesty, to serve him who has raised yon to your power and dignity.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • It is not by pride that I hold out, but by abjectness: there's no dignite dans le malheur.

    Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 1830

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