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"Edificia sororum sint humilia. curiositate uel superfluitate non notanda: et apponatur cura diligens. quod ordinentur officine. prout melius fieri poterit pro religione seruanda."
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Ut melius quicquid erit pati, seu pluris hiemes, seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam, quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Archive 2009-02-01 Flavia 2009
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Many of his motet texts are liturgical but three are secular and relate to political figures: O decus praises Granvelle; Nil pace est melius hails a treaty restoring possessions to Duke Moritz of Saxony; and Nunc enim si centum exalts Charles V. Most of the sacred texts are responsories or antiphons, so that many motets have two parts with a refrain, in the form aBcB.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Ut melius quicquid erit pati, seu pluris hiemes, seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam, quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009
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In the words of a true holy man, Lucius Lactantius, verbis melius quam verberibus res agenda est
Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows 2006
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FLAVIUS WORFEUS says: verbis melius quam verberibus res agenda est
Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows 2006
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Melancholicorum proprium, quum ex eorum arbitrio non fit subita mutatio in melius, alterare medicos qui quidvis, &c.
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O demens, quid tibi videtur in vita boni? nimirum amicitias, caenas, &c. Longe melius non esurire quam edere; non sitire,
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Qui melius bibit pro salute domini, melior habetur minister.
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This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on
A Start in Life 2007
 
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