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an epistle numbered xv
How he understands a proposition in an epistle numbered xv., wherein the Living Faith and the Dead Faith are treated of in terms that seem perfectly Catholic, and wholly opposed to the errors of Geneva, the words being these, Mori autem sensim dicitur in nobis Fides quando tolluntur vestimenta —now faith dies perceptibly in us when its vestments are thrown off?
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

another epistle numbered xvi
Shown another epistle, numbered xvi., on Free will, in opposition to those who hold that the will is not free, he is asked how he understands what is there said?
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

An Eventful Night XXXIII
An Eventful Night XXXIII.
— from The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Hamlin Garland

and every night xiv
(end) Æs Triplex, ii. 358 “All night long, and every night,” xiv.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Aristotle Ethica Nicomachea x
92 Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea , x. 2. 3. 93 Xenophon, Memorabilia , iv. 4. 24. 94 Cicero, De officiis , i. 15 (47); ii. 18 (63).
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

at easter next xxx
s̃. It̃m the xxiij daye paied to John Yardeley for his quarter wages to be due at easter next xxx s̃.
— from The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir

As Ezekiel notices xiii
As Ezekiel notices, xiii. 19; and Micah iii. 8.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold


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