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  • The cardinal, he continued, "to the end dedicated himself with affable willingness to the service of God and his fellows, maintaining faith in the motto he chose at the moment of his episcopal ordination: 'In tuo sancto servitio.'"

    Archive 2008-05-18 papabear 2008

  • Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, [5] alterum cum beluis [6] commune est.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ut nosmetipsos in tuo sancto servitio confortare et conservare digneris, te rogamus audinos.

    The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

  • When he was promoted to the See of Canterbury, he brought with him a copious supply of books, and spread the influence of his learning over the English monasteries; but with all the cares inseparably connected with the dignity of Primate of England, he still found time to gratify his bookloving propensities, and to continue his critical labors; indeed he worked day and night in the service of the church, _servitio

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • [432] Buecheler, _Umbrica_, pp. 22 and 102: "hastatos inhastatos completo timore tremore, fuga formidine, nive nimbo, fragore furore, senio servitio," where, however, the translator from the Umbrian is assisted by the Latin formulae we are discussing.

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • He would triumphantly ask, how it would become a female, and that female a Bradwardine, to be seen employed in servitio exuendi, seu detrahendi, caligas regis post battaliam? that is in pulling off the king's boots after an engagement, which was the feudal service by which he held the barony of Bradwardine.

    The Waverley 1877

  • Barony of Bradwardine is of a nature alike honourable and peculiar, being blanch (which Craig opines ought to be Latinated blancum, or rather francum, a free holding) _pro servitio detrahendi, seu exuendi, caligas regis post battalliam.

    The Waverley 1877

  • [8] Of the mind we rather employ the government; of the body, the service -- _Animi imperio, corporis servitio, magis utimur_.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • He would triumphantly ask, how it would become a female, and that female a Bradwardine, to be seen employed in servitio exuendi, seu detrahendi, caligas regis post battaliam? that is, in pulling off the king's boots after an engagement, which was the feudal service by which he held the barony of Bradwardine.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • He would triumphantly ask, how it would become a female, and that female a Bradwardine, to be seen employed in servitio exuendi, seu detrahendi, caligas regis post battaliam? that is, in pulling off the king's boots after an engagement, which was the feudal service by which he held the barony of

    Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

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