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  • Une chance puisque cette resine doit etre a mon effigie et j'ai les yeux Hazel donc marron ou vert selon le temps.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • Idola in ignem proijciunt; Et prima vice de igne exierunt; Tunc fratres ignem cum aqua benedicta conspercerunt, et interùm Idola in ignem proiecerunt, et daemones in effigie fumi nigerrimi fugerunt, et Idola remanserunt, et combusta sunt.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • So this good old knight "outlived his own monument, and lived to see himself carried in effigie on a Souldiers back, to the publick market-place, there to be sported withall, a Crew of Souldiers going before in procession, some with surplices, some with organ pipes, to make up the solemnity."

    The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting

  • _NH_ XXXIV 71 'habet simulacrum et benignitas eius [' Praxiteles 'generosity is seen in one of his statues']; Calamidis enim quadrigae aurigam suum imposuit, ne melior in equorum effigie defecisse in homine crederetur. ipse Calamis et alias quadrigas bigasque fecit equis sine aemulo expressis '.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Augustus: -- "Nihil Deorum honoribus relictum cum se templis et effigie numinum coli vellet" (An.I. 10).

    Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

  • Thus the name of the dead, which should be sacred and reverenced, but always spared, is unchristianly, inhumanly torn and traduced: the poor father, in the mean time, as it were, suffering in his son, and in a manner being executed in effigie; and the afflicted son having this further load added to his affliction, to hear the defaming of his deceased father.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823

  • Germanici & Caligulæ matris caput laureatum; sub effigie

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • Etsi Deus spiritus, spiritus etiam corpus est, sui generis in sua effigie_.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis, in suâ effigie. '

    Letters 1760

  • Etsi deus spiritus, spiritus etiam corpus est, sui generis, in sua effigie. '

    Letters 1760

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