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His baffled judges heard him repeating Horace's ode: Just um et tenacem propositi virum.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Black, Robert

Louis XVIII. remained alone, and turning his eyes on his half-opened Horace, muttered,— "Justum et tenacem propositi virum."

From The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas père, Alexandre

Fortis, intrepidus, propositi tenax, Mansuetudine generosâ, et facilitate morum, militis asperitate lenitâ.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.

Multitudinis imperitae non formido judicia, meis tamen, rogo, parcant opusculis—in quibus fuit propositi semper, a jocis ad seria, in seriis vicissim ad jocos transire.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence

Sandys, J.E. —his speech presenting Huxley for LL.D. at Cambridge. —letter to: —"tenax propositi".

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard