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Búrgút Eagle XIX
4. The Búrgút Eagle. XIX.—CONCERNING
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

BY ELECTRICITY XII
A VENTURE VI AT FULL STEAM VII AN UNKNOWN SPECIES OF WHALE VIII MOBILIS IN MOBILI IX NED LAND'S TEMPERS X THE MAN OF THE SEAS XI ALL BY ELECTRICITY XII SOME FIGURES XIII THE BLACK RIVER XIV A NOTE OF INVITATION XV A WALK ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA XVI A SUBMARINE FOREST XVII FOUR THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE PACIFIC XVIII VANIKORO XIX TORRES STRAITS XX A FEW DAYS ON LAND XXI CAPTAIN
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

best educations Xavier
"If your Honour condescending giving my boy best educations Xavier" (I suppose that's St Xavier's in Partibus) "in terms of our conversation dated in your tent 15th instant" (a business-like touch there!)
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Ben Ezra xii
Robert Browning, Rabbi Ben Ezra , xii.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

by Ethelfrid xxiv
British Museum, The, 331 n. Britons, or Brythons, xxxi ; defeated by Ethelfrid, xxiv , 73 ; origin of, 6 , 7 ; language, 6 . Britons of Strathclyde, 286 , 336 n. Britons of Strathclyde, King of, see Theudor .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

by Edwin xxv
Earpwald, King of East Anglia, [pg 411] son of Redwald, xxv , 171 ; converted by Edwin, xxv , 120 , 121 ; slain by Ricbert, 121 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

by either x
Here the given Pair may be represented by either ( x m 1 †
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

be Eternity XX
Till love that was, and love too blest to be, Meet — and the junction be Eternity? XX.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

be entitled xviii
The Philippine Civil Service 587–594 Showing how imperatively simple justice demands that Americans, who go out to enter the Philippine Civil Service should, after a tour of duty out there, be entitled, [ xviii ] as matter of right, to be transferred back to the Civil Service in the United States, instead of being left wholly dependent on political influence to “place” them after their final return home.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

B Exodus xiv
[Footnote B: Exodus, xiv, 21.]
— from An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by John Taylor

breath E xalting
L eft behind in the sleep of death A gallant half remain L ured to doom, but with dying breath E xalting Christ and Spain.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

Bible Exodus xx
The Bible (Exodus xx, 5 and 12, and xxii, 23, the observance of a command carries its reward and the transgression of a prohibition its punishment) often preaches the morality of fear, and upon the Biblical morality all the western civilizations are founded.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

Barrado el Xeniz
On the right rode the silversmith Barrado, el Xeniz on the left, bearing the musket and scimitar of the dead man, surrounded by el Xeniz's relations with their arquebuses and muskets, and Luis de Arroyo and Jeronimo de Oviedo formed the rear-guard with a troop of horse.
— from The Story of Don John of Austria by Luis Coloma

Bennett Esq xx
To G. Matthews Bennett, Esq., xx Specialist, &c., Milverton, Leamington. FOOTNOTES: 1 See Lancet , May 27th, 1871.
— from The Art of the Bone-Setter: A Testimony and a Vindication by George Matthews Bennett

Bysshe Edward Xenophon
A., J. Diogenes Laertius, 1 Adams, Francis Hippocrates, 1*; Musaeus, 17 Adams, George Sophocles, 7 Adams, M. W. Homer, 83 Addison, John Anacreon, 4; Sappho, 1 Alford, H. Homer, 63 Allcroft, Arthur Hadrian Homer, 111; Xenophon, 58, 61 Allen, F. D. Aeschylus, 4 Allpress, T. W. Xenophon, 30 Amos, A. D. C. Xenophon, 67 Anonymous Aeschylus, 2, 3, 3*, 8, 16, 67, 75, 87, 91; Aesop, 3*, 4*, 5*, 6*, 7*, 8*, 9*, 10, 11*, 13, 13*, 14*, 15*, 16, 16*, 18, 18*, 19*, 20*, 21*, 39, 42, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57; Anacreon, 10; Anthology, 9; Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 1*, 3*, 5*, 11, 12, 13, 14; Aristophanes, 13, 17, 43, 46, 69; Aristotle, 1, 2, 5, 13, 15, 17, 28, 30, 31, 59, 60; Artemidorus 4; Bion, 2; Cebes, 2, 4, 7; Chariton, 1; Demosthenes 3*, 4*, 25, 26, 27; Diogenes Laertius, 2; Epictetus 1*, 3*, 6*, 7*, 14; Euripedes, 1*, 2*, 20, 22, 24, 27, 45, 54, 55, 78, 79, 106; Heliodorus, 3, 5, 6; Herodian, 2, 4, 6; Herodotus 4, 7, 9, 17, 19; Hesiod, 1; Hippocrates 1, 4, 5, 6; Homer, 11*, 16*, 36, 38, 41, 45, 46, 50, 52, 53, 54, 65, 67, 104, 109; Isocrates, 4, 10; Longinus, 3, 4, 12, 15; Longus, 3, 6, 7; Lucian, 3, 5, 6, 9, 17, 21, 24; Lysias, 1*; Musaeus, 14; Pausanias 3, 6; Pindar, 5, 27; Plato, 1*, 2, 3*, 4*, 5*, 6, 6*, 7, 7*, 8*, 9, 9*, 10*, 17, 27, 37, 40, 41, 43, 46, 47; Plutarch, 1, 1*, 4*, 5, 5*, 6, 6*, 14*, 15*, 17, 19, 24, 28, 31, 35, 40; Polybius, 6, 9; Pythagoras, 1, 5; Sophocles 1*, 2*, 3*, 4*, 5*, 6*, 14, 15, 20, 23, 26, 27, 53; Theocritus, 1, 2; Theophrastus 2; Thucydides, 21; Xenophon 1*, 3*, 4*, 6*, 7, 9, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 47, 53, 68, 69; Armitstead, G. H. Aesop, 41 Armour, J. Lucian, 23 Arnold, E. Musaeus, 20 [pg 128] Arnold, Thomas J. Anacreon, 23; Aristophanes, 40; Euripides, 65, 67, 68, 86; Xenophon, 47, 55 Arwaker, E. (The Younger) Aesop, 25 Ashley, Maurice Xenophon, 18 Ashwick, S. Homer, 27 Auchmuty, A. G. Sophocles, 58 Author of British Nepos Plutarch, 23 Authors of the Art of Thinking Aristotle, 14 Ayres, Philip Aesop, 19 B., H. Aristophanes, 2 B., R. Aesop, 21 B., W. Appian, 1 Balgarnie, W. H. Euripides, 98, 103; Sophocles, 63; Xenophon, 63, 66 Balgrave, A. E. Plato, 48 Balliol Man Aeschylus, 50 Bally, G. Musaeus, 10 Bandion, J. Aesop, 23 Bannister, J. Euripides, 7; Pindar, 10 Banks, James Callimachus, 5; Euripides, 28; Hesiod, 5; Theocritus, 7; Theognis, 2 Barham, T. F. Homer, 82 Baring, Thomas Charles Pindar, 25 Barker, M. William Xenophon, 2 Barlow, Francis Aesop, 17 Barlow, Jane Homer, 118 Barnard, M. Homer, 87 Barnes, Thomas Isocrates, 9 Barret, W. Aesop, 9 Barrett, Elizabeth Aeschylus, 13 Barter, W. G. T. Homer, 60 Baxter, W. Diogenes Laertius, 1 Beach, W. W. Xenophon of Ephesus, 1 Bedford, G. C. Musaeus, 16 Behn, Aphra Aesop, 15 Beloe, William Alciphron, 1; Herodotus, 3 Benecke, Edward F. M. Appian, 3 Bevan, Edwyn Aeschylus, 95 Bewick, Thomas Aesop, 34 Biddle, George W. Demosthenes, 2* Bigge-Wither, Lovelace Homer, 78 Billing, R. A. Thucydides, 7 Billson, Charles J. Aristophanes, 34 Bingham, John Aeneas, 1, 2; Xenophon, 3 [pg 129] Birch, Nathan Plutarch, 25 Birmingham, C. Lloyd Homer, 40 Blackie, John Stuart Aeschylus, 23 Blakeney, E. H. Homer, 129 Bland, R. Anthology, 2 Blane, W. W. Xenophon, 15 Blew, William John Aeschylus, 25; Homer, 49 Bloomfield Thucydides, 5 Blundeville, M. Aristotle, 8; Plutarch, 7 Blyth, Thomas Allen Homer, 99 Boardman, J. Harold Demosthenes, 29 Bolland Aristotle, 48 Booth G. Diodorus Siculus, 3 Bosanquet, B. Plato, 12* Bouchier, E. S. Aristotle, 69, 74; Aeschylus, 77 Boulton, M. P. W. Homer, 86 Bourne, T. Anacreon, 19 Boyd, H. S. Aeschylus, 5 Bradley, R. Xenophon, 10 Brandreth, T. S. Homer, 56 Brandt, William Demosthenes, 18 Bridgeman, William Aristotle, 23, 24; Pythagoras, 7 Brine Xenophon, 29 Bringsley, John Aesop, 5 Brinklé, J. G. Sophocles, 7* Brodribb, W. J. Demosthenes, 21 Brooke, C. F. Tucker Plutarch, 9* Broome, William Apollonius of Rhodes, 1; Hesiod, 3; Homer, 18, 19, 23, 26 Brougham, Henry, Lord Demosthenes, 9 Broughton, Reginald Plato, 50; Sophocles, 50 Brown, E. R. Aeschylus, 76 Brown, J. Isocrates, 13 Browne, R. W. Aristotle, 32 Browning, Robert Aeschylus, 43; Euripides, 49 Bryant, William Cullen Homer, 5*, 6* Bryce Homer, 55 Buckley, Theodore Alois Aeschylus, 21; Aristotle, 34; Euripides, 29; Homer, 58 Budgell, Eustice Theophrastus, 3 Bullokar, William Aesop, 3 Burges, G. Anthology, 3; Demosthenes, 11; Sophocles, 29 Burnet, A. F. Homer, 110; Xenophon, 57 Burnet, John Aristotle, 71 Burrell, Lady Xenophon, 17 [pg 130] Burton, Robert Aesop, 2* Burton, William Achilles Tatius, 1 Bury, John Isocrates, 3 Butcher, Samuel Henry Aristotle, 65, 68; Homer, 94 Butler, Samuel Homer, 119, 125 Byles, C. E. Plutarch, 8*, 38 Bynner, Witter Euripides, 5* Bysshe, Edward Xenophon, 8 Bywater, Ingram Aristotle, 76 Calacleugh, W. G. Homer, 4* Caldecott, Alfred Aesop, 40 Calverley, Charles Stuart Theocritus, 9 Cambridge Graduate Aristotle, 52 Campbell, Lewis Aeschylus, 54, 65, 83; Sophocles, 35, 36, 37, 44 Carlill, H. F. Plato, 65 Carman, Bliss Sappho, 4* Carnarvon, Earl of Homer, 105 Carr, J. Lucian, 11 Carrington Aristophanes, 15 Carter, Elizabeth Epictetus, 9 Cartwright, J. Euripides, 39 Cary, Elizabeth L. Aesop, 22* Cary, Henry Aristophanes, 14; Herodotus, 8; Plato, 19; Pindar, 17 Casaubon, Meric Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 1 Case, Janet Aeschylus, 81 Caxton, William Aesop, 1 Cayley, C. B. Aeschylus, 34; Homer, 88 Chapman, George Homer, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 Chapman, M. J. Theocritus, 6 Charleston, Dr. Epicurus, 1 Chase, D. P. Aristotle, 39 Chatterton, Lady Plato, 25 Chesterton, Gilbert K. Aesop, 54 Chetwood, K. Demosthenes, 3 Church, F. J. Plato, 39 Clark Homer, 2*; Xenophon, 2* Clark, G. S. Sophocles, 12 Clark, R. Thomson Theophrastus, 11 Clarke, Henry Euripides, 94 Clarke Aesop, 30 Clifford, C. C. Aeschylus, 24; Aristophanes, 22 Cogan, Thomas Diodorus Siculus, 2 Colse, Peter Homer, 2 [pg 131] Coleridge, Edward Philip Apollonius Rhodius, 6; Euripides, 85; Sophocles, 57 Collier Aristotle, 37; Thucydides, 9 Collier, Jeremy Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 2 Collier, Rt. Hon.
— from English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey by Finley Melville Kendall Foster

Brave Exploit XVIII
A Brave Exploit XVIII.
— from The Campers Out; Or, The Right Path and the Wrong by Edward Sylvester Ellis


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