propria persona

The resulting book, plainly entitled On Germany (1813), was deliberately and significantly written in propria persona.

The Great de Staël Holmes, Richard 2009

Bronzomarte the spur, he began his career with such impetuosity as overturned all that happened to be in his way; and intimidated the rabble to such a degree, that they retired before him like a flock of sheep, the greater part of them believing he was the devil in propria persona.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

It is but fair to add that these Yankees, brave as they have ever proved themselves to be, did not confine themselves to theories and formulae, but that they paid heavily, in propria persona, for their inventions.

From the Earth to the Moon 2003

As if unsure that the import of the Boabdil/Moraes parallel has come across, Rushdie, in what sounds very much like propria persona, glosses it as follows: Granada, in particular the Alhambra, is a "monument to a lost possibility," a "testament ... to that most profound of our needs, ... for putting an end to frontiers, for the dropping of boundaries of the self."

Palimpsest Regained Coetzee, J.M. 1996

MR. PRESIDENT: -- Lastly, Satan came also, the printer's, if not the public's devil, _in propria persona_!

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

Vigorous man of forty that he was, Charles had no personal desire to see a son-in-law, _in propria persona_, waiting for his shoes -- a fact perfectly patent to the emperor, as it was to the rest of the world.

Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

The mistake of that period was that these free Negroes were not represented _in propria persona_ in that constitutional convention, but by the Anglo-Saxon.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Various

Quentin Salas, and owned that he possessed a slight advantage in having viewed the officer _in propria persona_, while he, Salas, was in disguise.

A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee

Asia by an Assyrian King, and this collection has actually come down to us, _in propria persona_.

A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

Hitherto, because of certain mortgages, the Marquess has not prohibited his daughter visiting here, with the Oppners or Vignoles; but you've forced him, now, to recognise you _in propria persona_.

The Sins of Séverac Bablon Sax Rohmer 1921