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during good pleasure: Meaning: "serving at the pleasure of the authority or officer who appointed". A Mediaeval legal Latin phrase. durante munere: while in office: For example, the Governor General of Canada is durante munere the Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada. dux: leader: dux bellorum: leader of wars
Middle: The Virgin Mary makes the devil to return the second pact during an exorcism. The idea of making a deal with the devil has appeared many times in works of popular culture. These pacts with the Devil can be found in many genres, including: books, music, comics, theater, movies, TV shows and games.
The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. [ 1] It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. A Jewish priest and then a Levite come by, both avoiding the man. A Samaritan happens upon him, and though Samaritans and Jews were ...
Pay it forward is an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying the kindness to others rather than paying it back to the original benefactor. It is also called serial reciprocity . The concept is old, but the particular phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond in her 1916 book In the Garden of Delight. [ 1]
Short Quotes. “Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.”. — F. Scott Fitzgerald. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And ...
50 friendship quotes. "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." – Winnie the Pooh. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you ...
For Pound, who spent a good deal of time seeking patrons for himself, James Joyce, Eliot and a string of little magazines and small presses, the role of the patron was a crucial cultural question, and Malatesta is the first in a line of ruler-patrons to appear in The Cantos. Canto XII consists of three moral tales on the subject of profit. [5]
Cold hands, warm heart [a] Comparisons are odious [a] Count your blessings [a] Courage is the measure of a Man, Beauty is the measure of a Woman [a] Cowards may die many times before their death [a] Crime does not pay [a] Cream rises. Criss-cross, applesauce [a] Cross the stream where it is shallowest.