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  • Rex tremendæ majestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me, fons pietatis.

    Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009

  • Commonwealth, be it a monarch or an assembly; and all endeavours by word or deed to diminish the authority of the same, either in the present time or in succession: which crimes the Latins understand by crimina laesae majestatis, and consist in design, or act, contrary to a fundamental law.

    Leviathan 2007

  • In almost wondrous admiration, Henri de Lubac reminds us of this: "Let us remember St. Bernard's cry of admiration for man: Celsa creatura, in capacitate majestatis!' which summarizes a long tradition as old as Christianity itself."

    What is the drama of Christian humanism? Fred 2007

  • In almost wondrous admiration, Henri de Lubac reminds us of this: "Let us remember St. Bernard's cry of admiration for man: Celsa creatura, in capacitate majestatis!' which summarizes a long tradition as old as Christianity itself."

    Archive 2007-11-01 Fred 2007

  • He keeps in for state, ne majestatis dignitas evilescat, as our China kings, of Borneo, and Tartarian Chams, those aurea mancipia, are said to do, seldom or never seen abroad, ut major sit hominum erga se observantia, which the [3704] Persian kings so precisely observed of old.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Maledicat illum Christus Filius Dei vivi toto suae majestatis imperio — — et insurgat adversus illum coelum cum omnibus virtutibus quae in eo moventur ad damnandum eum, nisi penituerit et ad satisfactionem venerit.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Maledicat illum Christus Filius Dei vivi toto suae majestatis imperio — — et insurgat adversus illum coelum cum omnibus virtutibus quae in eo moventur ad damnandum eum, nisi penituerit et ad satisfactionem venerit.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • “Scrutator majestatis absorbetur a gloria,” was their rule; and the curious disputes of

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • To the Early Middle Ages Christ was the awful Judge, the _Rex tremendae majestatis_, though also the divine bringer of salvation from sin and eternal punishment, and, to the mystic, the Bridegroom of the Soul.

    Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

  • Si ad impetrandum nihil causae haberem praeter miserandam fortunam, quod paulo ante rex genere, fama atque copiis potens, nunc deformatus aerumnis, inops, alienas opes expecto, tamen erat majestatis Romani populi [86] prohibere injuriam neque pati cujusquam regnum per scelus crescere.

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

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