fiat lux
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The Count, the invisible providence of this invisible world, alone could give it external life and utter the fiat lux of eternity.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 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
A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies the fiat lux.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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