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  • The Pro Virtute decoration for "exceptional combat leadership by officers in the field" is to be presented for the first time on Monday, South African Army headquarters said in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • On the cushion back of the chair were embossed in gold the arms of Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, with a motto “Fide et Virtute,” and above, in the midst of some wood-carving representing the rose, the thistle, the shamrock, and the leek, was a silver plate, bearing a suitable inscription.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  • On the cushion back of the chair were embossed in gold the arms of Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, with a motto "Fide et Virtute," and above, in the midst of some wood-carving representing the rose, the thistle, the shamrock, and the leek, was a silver plate, bearing a suitable inscription.

    The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook

  • The French minister, compelled to resign, no doubt drew substantial consolation from _Virtute me involvo_, when he turned it to fit his case:

    Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman

  • Virtute ac dis volentibus magni estis et opulenti; omnia secunda [103] et obedientia sunt; quo facilius sociorum injurias curare licet.

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

  • The French minister, compelled to resign, no doubt drew substantial consolation from Virtute me involvo, when he turned it to fit his case:

    Horace and His Influence Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935 1922

  • Virtute in remembrance of their special consecration has led to the bells being rung at times of storm and apprehended danger.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • Plautus, and commentaries on Terrence (1816); Philo, "De Virtute"; a discourse of Themistius; a fragment of Dionysius of Halicarnassus

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Those founded upon chant subjects were thus styled (e.g. Palestrina's "Ecce Sacerdos Magnus", "Virtute magna", etc.) or when founded on secular song themes unblushingly bore the appropriate title (e.g. Palestrina's "L'homme arme").

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Virtutibus Theologicis "(2d ed. Bruges, 1890);" De Virtute

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

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