fiat lux
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Mr. Reid cries fiat lux, and carries the proclamation into effect, like the impatient gentleman who broke the windows which were obscured by the too frequent repetition of that motto burnt in on every pane.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
"Glittering generality" or not, the voice which proclaimed that the birthright of equality belonged to all mankind was the fiat lux of the new-born political universe.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
It sounds through the world like a new fiat lux!
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Kleiser, Grenville
That chaos, the human heart, hears the fiat lux!
From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor
The mystic word that from afar God spake and made you rose and star, The fiat lux that bade you shine.
From The Worshipper of the Image by Le Gallienne, Richard
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