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enjoy not injoy XXII
XXI " 329 " 31: Isn't not Is'nt XXII " 341 " 11: hasn't not has'nt XXII " 344 " 16: enjoy not injoy XXII " 346 " 6: meetest not metest XXII " 346 " 20: Isn't not Is'nt XXIII " 349 " 10: difficulties not diffiulties XXIII " 356 " 1: autumnal not autummal XXIII " 356 " 41: manuscripts not manscripts XXIV " 364 " 38: back," not back, XXIV " 368 " 19: neighbours not neighours XXIV " 377 " 17: opportunity
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

eternal necessity I xvi
This essence, therefore, must necessarily be conceived through the very essence of God (I. Ax. iv.), and be thus conceived by a certain eternal necessity (I. xvi.); and this conception must necessarily exist in God (II. iii.).
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

earth nourishes Iliad xi
which the earth nourishes” (Iliad, xi. 740); in the latter, we have Circê, sister of Æêtês, father of Mêdea, and living in the Ææan island (Odyss.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

eighty notables IV xxi
A reference to his slaughter of the eighty notables, IV. xxi.
— from History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War by Procopius

E Norton Inferno xvi
C. E. Norton, Inferno, xvi— “ The narrative of the poet's spiritual journey is so vivid and consistent that it has all the reality of an account of an actual experience; but within and beneath runs a stream of allegory not less consistent and hardly less continuous than the narrative itself. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

encamps near it xxix
Scipio encamps near it, xxix.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

E N i xi
L. N. M. E. N. i. xi .
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

elephants note ib xviii
An elephant drove by night 118 Singular scene in the corral 119 Excitement of the tame elephants, note ib. xviii CHAPTER II.
— from The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir


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