American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with ExamplesAllen, Charles Dexter
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American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples
Allen, Charles Dexter
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_Je recois pour donner._ I receive to distribute. INNES.
_Jovae praestat fidere quam homine._ It is better to trust in God
than man. STUYVESANT.
_Judicemur agendo._ Let us be judged by our deeds. HICKS.
_Juncta virtute fides._ Fidelity joined to bravery. MURRAY.
_Jura sunt mea: vindicabo._ These are my rights: I will defend
them. TAYLOR.
_Juste rem para._ Prepare the thing justly. APTHORP.
_Justice, Truth._ STONE.
_Labor omnia vincit._ Labor conquers all things. LONGBOTTOM.
_Labor to rest._ KEMPE.
_Labore._ By labor. YOUNG.
_L’amour et l’amitié._ Love and friendship. OLIVER.
_Law and Right._ ALLEN.
_Lectorem delectando partique monendo._ To please the reader and
partly to admonish. COX.
_Lege et intellige._ By law and reason. SIMPSON.
_Lege et ratione._ By law and reason. CROOKSHANK.
_Legibus vivo._ I live by the law. LISLE.
_Lex libertas salusque gentis._ Law, liberty and the safety of the
race. GEORGETOWN COLLEGE.
_Libertas._ Liberty. PRIDE.
_Libertas et natale solum._ Liberty and my native soil. SITGREAVES.
_Libertas et patria mea._ Liberty and my country. GILES.
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_Libertatem, amicitiam retenebis et fidem._ You will keep liberty,
friendship and good faith. ADAMS.
_Literatura mentem excandit._ Literature brightens the mind. WELCH.
_Live to truth._ MASTERTON.
_Loyal au mort._ Loyal to death. BELCHER. KING.
_Loyal jusqu’à la Mort._ Loyal even unto death. BELCHER.
_Loyez ferme._ Be steadfast. CLARKE.
_Luceo non uro._ I shine but do not burn. MCKENZIE.
_Lucidior in tenebris._ The brighter in darkness. INGLIS.
_L’un pour l’autre._ For each other. SAMUELS.
_Magnanimus esto._ Be great-souled. INGRAHAM.
_Malo mori quam foedari._ I would rather die than be disgraced.
BETTS. MURRAY.
_Manet amicitia florebit que semper._ Friendship endures and is in
perpetual bloom. FRANCIS. PIERPONT.
_Maximae divitiae sunt prae doctrina et scientia contemnendae: sed
virtus omnibus praestat._ The greatest riches are to be despised
compared with learning and wisdom: but virtue excels all. VINTON.
_May concord prevail and the undertaking prosper._ ALBANY SOCIETY
LIBRARY.
_Mediocria firma._ The middle course is safe. LARDNER.
_Meliora non opto._ I desire no better things. JACKSON.
_Meliora spero._ I hope for better things. PANTON.
_Mens sibi conscia recti._ A mind conscious of its rectitude.
MURRAY.
_Mens in arduis aequa._ A mind calm in the midst of difficulties.
ABERCROMBIE.
_Mille malis salutis habeo, species mille._ In a thousand evils I
have a thousand chances of safety. FOSTER.
_Miseris succerrere disco._ I learn to succor the unfortunate.
LIVERMORE. RUSH.
_Modestia victorex._ Modesty supreme. SULLIVAN.
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