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  • Back to the crazy pavement of Versailles, back to “democracy”, i.e. capitalism, back to dole queues and the Rolls-Royce cars, back to the grey top hats and the sponge-bag trousers, in saecula saeculorum.

    The Lion and the Unicorn 1941

  • Though as a matter of fact, from that line of talk about ‘heaven on earth’, you can make a fairly good guess at what he would like civilization to be; a sort of Lyons Comer House lasting in saecula saeculorum and getting bigger and noisier all the time.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • Hell is being utterly abandoned, forever and ever, per omnia saecula saeculorum.

    Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010

  • According to legend, the gods had allotted a certain number of saecula to every people or civilization; the Etruscans themselves, for example, had been given ten saecula.

    Astrology or Psychohistory? « Isegoria 2008

  • Sicut erat in principio, et nunc et semper, et in saecula saeculorum.

    Can I Take My Gun Up To Heaven? Jason Behrends 2010

  • Laudes Deo dicam per saecula, qui me plasmavit in manu dextera atque redemit cruce purpurea sanguine nati.

    Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

  • Laudes Deo dicam per saecula, qui me plasmavit in manu dextera atque redemit cruce purpurea sanguine nati.

    And all the words to the troped lesson, too bls 2009

  • Iesu, tibi sit gloria, qui apparuisti gentibus, cum Patre, et almo Spiritu, in sempiterna saecula.

    Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

  • Iesu, tibi sit gloria, qui apparuisti gentibus, cum Patre, et almo Spiritu, in sempiterna saecula.

    "The Hymns of Prudentius, translated by R. Martin Pope" bls 2009

  • Sit, Christe, rex piissime, tibi Patrique gloria cum Sancto Spiritu Paraclito, in sempiterna saecula.

    Verbum Supernum Prodiens bls 2009

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