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  • The moment had now arrived for the United States to redeem on a global scale the full revolutionary promise of 1776 — to create everywhere the novus ordo saeclorum ( "new order of the ages") that the founding generation had so extravagantly predicted.

    What "W" Owes to "WW" 2005

  • The moment had now arrived for the United States to redeem on a global scale the full revolutionary promise of 1776 — to create everywhere the novus ordo saeclorum ( "new order of the ages") that the founding generation had so extravagantly predicted.

    What "W" Owes to "WW" 2005

  • The moment had now arrived for the United States to redeem on a global scale the full revolutionary promise of 1776 — to create everywhere the novus ordo saeclorum ( "new order of the ages") that the founding generation had so extravagantly predicted.

    What "W" Owes to "WW" 2005

  • These contradictions were not invisible to Orwell himself, who while in Burma described how his own feelings were often at odds: "With one part of my mind I thought of the British Raj as an unbreakable tyranny, as something clamped down, in saecula saeclorum, upon the will of prostrate people; with another I thought that the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest's guts."

    Review of Gordon Bowker's "Inside George Orwell" 2003

  • Vltima Cumaei uenit iam carminis aetas; magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.

    'Unto you a child is born' Vergil 1912

  • Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo, all varieties of doctrinaire idealisms.

    Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863

  • Charles Thomson, the perennial secretary of Congress, replaced Barton’s “Deo favente” with a motto adapted from Virgil’s Aeneid—“Annuit coeptis” “God has nodded at the undertaking”)—and another motto adapted from Virgil’s Eclogues—“Novus ordo saeclorum”QlA new order of the ages is born”).

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • Charles Thomson, the perennial secretary of Congress, replaced Barton’s “Deo favente” with a motto adapted from Virgil’s Aeneid—“Annuit coeptis” “God has nodded at the undertaking”)—and another motto adapted from Virgil’s Eclogues—“Novus ordo saeclorum”QlA new order of the ages is born”).

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • "magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo" - a great order of the ages is born.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

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