It also bore the usual motto of that prince, talent de bien faire.

In war, therefore, each nation adopts a motto as its reason for fighting.

Don't you remember our motto?

But I have learned the motto, every word, and I can speak that when I feel discouraged with my work.

As I passed under the crossbeam of the suspension bridge, I looked to find the motto, "All hope relinquish, ye who enter here."

"Might as well have the best," he said to the angel, repeating the Filson motto.

And in their place put feathers black, And write this motto there: 'Heavy as lead is now his heart, Oppressed with a leaden care,' And take away the diamonds,

The black shield displayed a silver stallion which was rampant in every member and was bridled with gold, but the ancient arms had been given a new motto.

How shall each in his wisdom or his folly interpret that well-worn motto which still has virtue both to quicken and control, "Noblesse oblige"?

Dr. Brown says, "Our looks discover our passions, there being mystically in our faces certain characters, which carry in them the motto of our souls, and, therefore, probably work secret effects in other parts."

He proposed a motto: 'Tenui Musam meditanum avenir:' We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal; but this being too near the truth, they took their motto from Publius Syrus; 'of whom,' said Smith, 'none of us had, I am sure, read a single line.'

Emilie had kept it well; they rather laughed at her for not translating the motto, but no matter, she had taught them all a German phrase by the mistake.

It is easy to go wrong in a wicked world, but there are certain circumstances under which one is pledged to virtue; when, like a knight of the olden time, you wear your motto next your heart and fight for it,"Death rather than defeat!"

SEWARD, William, F.R.S., account of him, iii. 123; Batheaston Vase, perhaps wrote for the, ii. 337, n. 2; Harington's Nugae Antiquae, suggests a motto for, iv.

But Di doesn't trouble herself with such thoughtsshe only cuts out saucy mottoes from the flaky white paste to lay on the red cranberry tarts, of which she makes a special one for each cousin.

[Footnote 1: No motto in the first issue.

"I don't know," said my father, to whom I put the question, "but I will ask him at any rate, and send him the mottoes."

An African was seen, (as in the figure[A],) in chains, in a supplicating posture, kneeling with one knee upon the ground, and with both his hands lifted up to heaven, and round the seal was observed the following motto, as if he was uttering the words himself,"Am

I never forget a motto I chose for my birthday once on a time.

The neighborhood is one long since given up to fifth-rate shops, whose masters and mistresses display such enticing mottoes as "Au gagne petit!"

The lover reads the motto from his mistress' seal, not thinking that the beautiful stone which made the impression, was found on the banks of Lake Pepin.

So you still want a motto?

The ladies were at once dismayed about Miss Caroline, from Aunt Delia herself, to Marcella Eubanks, who kept conspicuous upon her dressing-table a bedizened motto of the Daughters of Rebecca,"The lips that touch wine shall never touch mine."

The peasants laughed, but the blond Lisbeth did not allow herself to be disconcerted; she cried out joyfully: "And do you know my motto?

According to Mickle, it was the custom of his navigators to leave his motto, Talent de bien faire, wherever they came; and in 1525 Loaya, a Spanish captain, found that device carved on the bark of a tree in the island of St Matthew, or Anabon, in the second degree of southern latitude.