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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 B Y E LECTRICITY X II 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
"If your Honour condescending giving my boy b est e ducations X avier" (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
British Museum, The, 331 n. Britons, or Brythons, xxxi ; defeated b y E thelfrid, x xiv , 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
Earpwald, King of East Anglia, [pg 411] son of Redwald, xxv , 171 ; converted b y E dwin, x xv , 120 , 121 ; slain by Ricbert, 121 . — from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint
Here the given Pair may be represented b y e ither ( x m 1 † — from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll
Till love that was, and love too blest to be, Meet — and the junction b e E ternity? X X. — from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson
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, b e e ntitled, [ x viii ] 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
L eft behind in the sleep of death A gallant half remain L ured to doom, but with dying b reath E x alting Christ and Spain. — from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
The B ible (E xodus x x, 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
On the right rode the silversmith B arrado, e l X eniz 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
To G. Matthews B ennett, E sq., x x 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
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* B ysshe, E dward X enophon, 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
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