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State Motto: Audemus jura nostra defendere We dare defend our rights
Suddenly Southern Maureen Duffin-Ward 2004
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Exercitu itaque imperii nostri propter vi� omnino angustiam et difficultatem, vsque ad decem milliaria extenso; et cum neque qui pr鎖bant possent postremos defendere, neque versa vice rursus postremi possent pr鎒untes inuare, non mediocrit鑢 ab inuicem hos distare accidit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Beneath the dolphin was a tiny scroll on which she could just discern the legend, Regem defendere diem videre.
A Murder of Quality Le Carre, John, 1931- 1962
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Quae negotia multo magis quam proelium male pugnatum ab suis, regem terrebant; quippe cui spes omnis in fuga sita erat, sequi cogebatur, et qui sua loca [305] defendere nequiverat, in alienis bellum gerere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Quibusdam destinatis sententiis consecrati quae non probant coguntur defendere.
Pens��es 1623-1662 1944
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Non me arbitratur militem, sed mulierem, qui me meosque non queam defendere. nam neque Bellona mi umquam neque Mars creduat, ni illum exanimalem faxo, si convenero, nive exheredem fecero vitae suae.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Mopsus, the official prophet of the expedition, falls into a trance and beholds a vision of the future (211): heu quaenam aspicio! nostris modo concitus ausis aequoreos vocat ecce deos Neptunus et ingens concilium. fremere et legem defendere cuncti hortantur. sic amplexu, sic pectora fratris,
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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"Qui Acta Apostolorum non recipiunt, nec spiritus sancti esse possunt, qui necdum spiritum sanctum possunt agnoscere discentibus missum, sed nec ecclesiam se dicant defendere qui quando et quibus incunabulis institutum est hoc corpus probare non habent."
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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[1318] Atque huic quidem contrarium very pernicious, and to be detested. [1319] statuere ac defendere, perniciosum admodum est ac detestandum.
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Magistratus omnis a Deo quum sit, officium ejus (nisi tyrannidem exercere mavult), praecipuum est, religionem omni blasphemia reprimenda defendere et procurare, ac qualiter ex Verbo Domini propheta docet, pro virili exequi.
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