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  • Latines understand by the word Cultus: For Cultus signifieth properly, and constantly, that labour which a man bestowes on any thing, with a purpose to make benefit by it.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • "Cultus" is the most insulting word that can be applied to an Indian, and, when it is used, it invites the most deadly revenge.

    The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

  • (Pope Pius XI, Divini Cultus) "The sacred liturgy .. is the primary and indispensable source from which the faithful are to derive the true Christian spirit."

    The Sacred Liturgy: The First School of the Faith 2009

  • Cultus Charlie, another Indian, arrived in a canoe at Forty Mile, went straight to the gold commissioner, and recorded three claims and a discovery claim on Bonanza Creek.

    Chapter IX 2010

  • He lines up the food and dog teams from the miners of Mucluc but Cultus George, a Circle City Indian "civilized" from living with whites, demands payment for his work.

    “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” 2008

  • In the eighth of the series, "The Hanging of Cultus George" (Cosmopolitan, January, 1912), Smoke and Shorty are six days on trail en route from Mucluc to a great copper find along the Milk River.

    “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” 2008

  • Pitt Lake, Fraser River, Chilliwack Lake, Cultus Lake and Nitnat Lake all have their reported oversized salamanders or “black alligators”.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Cultus ferox is nice too former corvus corax or wolgemut as well.

    Day 3: Filming at Doune Castle 2009

  • I confess, all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.

    An Address 2006

  • Cultus, or established worship of the civilized world, it has great historical interest for us.

    An Address 2006

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