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and Ethics X
Article on "Revivals of Religion," Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics , X, 753-57.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

and Egg X
3. Fox, Monkey, and Animals. VI. 6. Fox, Two Rats, and Egg. X. 1.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

and establish xvi
During the effervescent and ephemeral republic there was sent to the Philippines a governor who set to work to modify the old system and establish [ xvi ] a government more in harmony with modern ideas and more democratic in form.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

and energy XXIX
And Epicurus, in his treatise on Choice, speaks thus: “Now, freedom from disquietude, and freedom from pain, are states of pleasure; but joy and cheerfulness are beheld in motion and energy.” XXIX.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

armed equipped x
Addrest , ii, 11 , armed, equipped; x, 11 , directed.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

and Eutropius x
p. 117, 118, who imputes the distress to Julian, the deliverance to Jovian,) and Eutropius, (x. 17.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

ad Ecgbertum xxxvi
Bede, or Beda, the author, called “Venerable,” xxi , xxxiv ; account of his life, xxxiii-xliii ; his family, xxxiii ; born near Wearmouth, xxxiii , xxxiv , 386 ; his instructors, xxxiii , xxxiv , 222 , 257 n., 386 ; his ordination, xxxiii , 273 n., 386 ; his life spent in the Monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, xxxiii , xxxiv , 137 n., 386 ; dates of his birth and death, xxxiv ; his autobiography, xxxiv , 386-389 ; his diligence, xxxiv ; his eyes dim in age, xxxiv ; his death, xix , xxxiv , xxxix-xliii , 391 ; his epitaph, xxxiv ; his learning, xxxiv , xxxv , xxxvi ; his style, xxxvi ; visits Lindisfarne, xxxvi ; visits York, xxxvi ; Egbert his pupil, xxxvi ; his “Epistola ad Ecgbertum,” xxxvi , 273 n., 342 n.; his influence, xxxvi ; his last illness, xxxvi , xxxix , xl , xlii , xliii ; his “Life of Cuthbert” in prose and verse, xxxvi , 4 n., 260 n., 285 n., 287 n., [pg 400] 288 n., 291 , 309 ; story of his visit to Rome, xxxvi ; story of his residence at Cambridge, xxxvi ; his writings, xxxvii , 311 n.; list of his literary works and compilations, 386-389 ; his studies, xxxvii , 386-389 ; his duties, xxxvii ; his character, xxxvii , xxxviii , xxxix ; his zeal for Catholic usages, xxxviii , xxxix ; his admiration for Aidan, xxxix ; dictates to Wilbert his translation of St. John and St. Isidore, xlii , xliii ; buried at Jarrow, xl ; his relics stolen by Elfred and carried to Durham, xl ; translated with those of St. Cuthbert to the new Cathedral, xl ; a shrine erected to him by Hugh de Puisac, xl ; his chronology corrected, 9 , 11 , 12 , 13 n., 20 n., 22 n., 23 n., 27 n., 28 n., 29 n., 42 n., 63 n., 68 n., 75 n., 94 n., 241 n., 254 n., 287 n., 314 n.; his “Martyrology,” editorial references to, 27 n., 99 n., 265 n.; his friendship for Acca, 161 n.; his “De Temporibus,” 170 ; his “De temporum Ratione,” 170 , 227 n.; his “History of the Abbots,” 213 n., 215 n., 257 n., 287 n.; uses the Caesarean system of Indictions, 227 n.; his “De Locis Santis,” 337 n., 338 n.; said to have written Ceolfrid's Letter to Naiton, 360 n.; his “Expositio in Marci Evangelium,” 364 n.; his “Ecclesiastical History,” see Ecclesiastical .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

an English xvi
The English verse is sometimes exquisite; at other times the rules of our prosody are absolutely ignored, and it is obvious that the Hindu poetess was chanting to herself a music that is discord in an English [xvi] ear.
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

after Egbert xxviii
Hlothere, King of Kent after Egbert, xxviii , xxix , 230 , 254 , 269 ; Edric's revolt against, 287 ; grants Bertwald land in Thanet, 315 ; death, 285 , 287 , 385 . Holder, editor of the “Ecclesiastical History,” xx .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

angeli eletti XII
I’ vidi in terra VII 292 Gli occhi di ch’io parlai VIII 294 Soleasi nel mio cor IX 302 Levommi il mio pensier X 351 Dolci durezze XI 346 Gli angeli eletti XII 361
— from Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

AN EXPERIMENT XVII
AN EXPERIMENT XVII.
— from Her Benny: A Story of Street Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking

And eddying Xanthus
In warlike lines, and many watch-fires blazed As when in heaven the stars look brightly forth Round the clear-shining moon while not a breeze Stirs in the depths of air, and all the stars Are seen and gladness fills the shepherd’s heart, So many fires in sight of Ilium blazed Lit by the sons of Troy between the ships And eddying Xanthus: on the plain there shone A thousand; fifty warriors by each fire Sat in its light.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

Autumn Effect xxii
234 Notes and Essays, chiefly of the Road: A Retrospect, xxii. 71; Cockermouth and Keswick, xxii. 80; Roads, xxii. 90; Notes on the Movements of Young Children, xxii. 97; On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places, xxii. 103; An Autumn Effect, xxii.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

and element x
Anaphase of same, showing synapsis of chromosomes at pole of spindle, and element x .
— from Studies in Spermatogenesis (Part 1 of 2) by N. M. (Nettie Maria) Stevens

as E xix_544
H as E. [xix_544] E folowit thar .
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

anchor ESSAY XV
H2 anchor ESSAY XV.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

and ethical xvi
The Jews were entire strangers to those kinds of literary production, in which the living manners of a people are preserved to posterity: literature among them was devoted to higher objects than comedy, satire, and ethical xvi description.
— from Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Volume 1 (of 2) A picture of Judaism, in the century which preceded the advent of our Savior. by Friedrich Strauss

also Ecclesiasticus xxxiii
See also Ecclesiasticus , xxxiii.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck


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