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Brewer's: A.E.I.O.U.
The device adopted by Frederick V, Archduke of Austria (the Emperor Frederick III, 1440–1493). Austria Est Imperare Orbi Universo. Alles Erdreich Ist Oesterreich Unterthan. Austria's…Brewer's: Heralds
(Anglo-Saxon here (2 syl.), an army, and ealdor, a governor or official. The coat of arms represents the knight himself from whom the bearer is descended. The shield represents his body,…Brewer's: Aide toi et le Ciel taidera
“God will help those who help themselves.” The party-motto of a political society of France, established in 1824. The object of the society was, by agitation and the press, to induce…Brewer's: Johnstone
The crest of this family is a winged spur. or spur between two wings, leathered, with the motto. “Nunquam non paratus.” When King Edward I. was meditating treachery in favour of Balliol,…Brewer's: Calligraphy
(The art of ). Writing very minutely and yet clearly. Peter Bale, in the sixteenth century, wrote in the compass of a silver penny the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, two…Brewer's: Hurlo-Thrumbo
A ridiculous burlesque, which in 1730 had an extraordinary run at the Haymarket theatre. So great was its popularity that a club called “The Hurlo-Thrumbo Society” was formed. The author…Brewer's: Ich Dien
According to a Welsh tradition, Edward I. promised to provide Wales with a prince “who could speak no word of English,” and when his son Edward of Carnarvon was born he presented him to…Brewer's: Cremonas
Violins of the greatest excellence; so called from Cremona, where for many years lived some makers of them who have gained a world-wide notoriety, such as Andrea Amati and Antonio his son…Brewer's: Crescent
Tradition says that “Philip, the father of Alexander, meeting with great difficulties in the siege of Byzantium, set the workmen to undermine the walls, but a crescent moon discovered the…Brewer's: Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
(Latin). While we live, let us enjoy life. The motto of Dr. Doddridge's coat of arms, which he converted into the subjoined epigram — `Live, while you live,' the epicure would say, `And…Trending
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