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  • * Abram donc s'est fait ouverture au sanctuaire celeste par une doctrine generale de piete, afin de bien servir Dieu: [1218] 1

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • The French translation throws little light upon it: ` Abram donc s'est fait ouverture au sanctuaire celeste par une doctrine generale de piete, afin de bien servir Dieu. '

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • It asserted itself amid all his idealistic straining, and led him to create a style of "tableaux de piete", little pious scenes as helps to private devotion, to be set up in bed-rooms and oratories.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • DESTOMBES, Les vies des Saints et des personnes d'une eminente piete de Cambrai et d'Arras (Lille, 1890); CHEVALIER, Topo-bibliographie,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Il entre dans les maisons, prend part aux conversations, aux repas, et, tout en evitant les longs entretiens et les liaisons aux les femmes, et le directeur et le compagnon de piete des ames ....

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Il y a meme des personnes de piete qui prouvent par raison qu'il faut renoncer a la raison; que ce n'est point la lumiere, mais la foi seule qui doit nous conduire, et que l'obeissance aveugle est la principale vertu des chretiens.

    Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • One morning I was dusting and sweeping out the dining-room, and saw the pipe on the mantel-piete.

    Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky, Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848. 1863

  • Filled with what motley, unlovable contents: stale pawn-tickets of foreign/monts de piete/, pledges never henceforth to be redeemed; scrawls by villanous hands in thievish hierolgyphics; ugly implements replacing the malachite penknife, the golden toothpick, the jewelled pencil-case, once so neatly set within their satin lappets.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Filled with what motley, unlovable contents: stale pawn-tickets of foreign _monts de piete_, pledges never henceforth to be redeemed; scrawls by villanous hands in thievish hierolgyphics; ugly implements replacing the malachite penknife, the golden toothpick, the jewelled pencil-case, once so neatly set within their satin lappets.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Declinul unei piete: in imobiliare, fara nervi tari, acum o iei razna

    ZF 2009

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