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In the new effigy, her majesty appears crowned and veiled, with the ribbon and star of the garter and the Victoria and Albert order. The legend "Victoria Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regina, Fidei Defensor" is variously arranged on the different coins, according to the exigencies of the design.

ELIZABETHA, Dei gratia Angliae Franciae, et Hiberniae Regina, fidei defensatrix, &c.

He has favourite images, favourite maxims, favourite texts, which he cannot do without. "Da Fidei quæ sunt Fidei" comes in from his first book to his last.

The more fiercely the theological controversy raged, the more ready was the average working pastor to flee from the dust and din of battle by appealing to the testimony of the Bible. "How evangelical! Christian David Lenz, the Lutheran Superintendent at Riga, was charmed. "Nothing," he wrote, "has so convinced me of the purity of the Brethren's evangelical teaching as your Idea Fidei Fratrum.

Patrick, Saint Andrew, and Saint George, and is that popularly known to us as "the Union Jack." The fleur de lis, and the word "France," were struck from the royal title, which was settled, by proclamation, to consist henceforth of the words Dei Gratia, Britanniarum Rex, Fidei Defensor.

I have no desire to play the part of devil's advocate; but in the guise of that personage under his more respectable title of Promotor Fidei it is my duty to point out that if Hudson deliberately did "keep up" himself and a favored few by putting the remainder on starvation rations no matter what may have been his motives he exceeded his ship-master's right over his crew of life and death.

'Hoec enim est Christianoe fidei summa: vitam veram expectare post mortem, that is 'Here is then the summary of the Christian faith: to hope for a true life after death. But you, lacking in charity, and for a vile, greedy interest, live in opposition to Christ, and pretend to be able to mould Divine Judgment.

This at least is certain, that the later the age of the writer, the stronger the expression of comparative superiority of the Scriptures; the earlier, on the other hand, the more we hear of the 'Symbolum', the 'Regula Fidei', the Creed. Chap. XXXII. p. 362.

Non cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes, or Quem nemo ferro potuit superare me auro, or Ille vir haud magna cum re sed plenu' fidei, or the great Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque

'Credo in Dominum' were the words this monk wrote in the dust of the high-road, as he lay a-dying there of Cavina's dagger; and they, according to the Dominican record, were presently washed away by his own blood 'rapida profusio sui sanguinis delevit professionem suoe fidei. Yet they had not been written in vain.