Pietas
Americannoun
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A modest space with small religious paintings and sketches from the 1840s and ’50s raises the emotional pitch with amazing Lamentations and Pietas, and a Rubenesque sketch for a Crucifix.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2018
For notes on the architectural history of this library, see Pietas O.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
At the end of the section on Pietas et patientia he comes to a dignified close, but immediately continues with a chapter on Revelationes which, one would think, ought not to have been an afterthought.
From Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
A remarkable little book, and a very fit companion for the Silver Drops of William Blake, to which it bears a striking similarity, is the Pietas Hallensis of Dr. Franck.
From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Pietas ipsa sibi merces est,—godliness is great gain in itself, though it had not such sweet consequents or companions.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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