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English
He was surrounded and supported by infinite depths of authority, reason, precedent, legal conscience, the vengeance of the law, al the stars in the firmament; he protected order, he hurled forth the thunder of the law; he avenged society, he lent aid to the absolute; he stood erect in a halo of glory; there was in his victory a reminder of defiance and of combat; standing haughty, resplendent, he displayed in full glory the superhuman beastliness of a ferocious archangel; the fearful shadow of the deed which he was accomplishing, made visible in his clenched fist, the uncertain flashes of the social sword; happy and indignant, he had set his heel on crime, vice, rebellion, perdition, and hell, he was radiant, exterminating; there was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous St. Michael.
Latin
Inclusus et nitatus est profundis infinitis
auctoritatis, ratione, exemplo, conscientia iusta, ultione iuris, stellis
omnibus in caelo; ordinationem custodit, tonitrum iuris proiecit; populum
vindicavit; absolutos adiuvit; in gloriam stetit, est in victoriam admonitionem
contemptionis bellique; superbus stans, splendidus; in gloria magna beluinitatem
divinum saevi archangeli habuit; umbra formidilosa facta qui peractebat, actus
evidens in pugno, fulgores incerti pugionis populi; laetus superbusque, calcem
poniverat in malis, vitiis, rebellione, interitu, et inferis, micans est et ad
internecionem delens; amplitudo certus est in ille Sanctum Michaelum
ingentem.