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causeries of Roundabout Papers of rambling articles
It may not be literature, the writing of causeries , of Roundabout Papers, of rambling articles “on a broomstick,” and yet again, it may be literature!
— from How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture by Andrew Lang

collections of ritual prescriptions or rubrics as
↑ 12 The “Ordo Romanus” arc certain ancient collections of ritual prescriptions, or rubrics, as observed in the Roman Catholic Church.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta


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