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Epistemon Xenomanes Gymnast
Remember me to Panurge, Friar John, Epistemon, Xenomanes, Gymnast, and thy other principal domestics.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

ek xêrou gignoito
ta proeirêmena kata tên poiotêta kineisthai lechthêsetai kai ou monon ge ta kata tên chroan ê ton chymon exallattomena kineisthai phamen, alla kai to thermoteron ek psychroterou genomenon ê psychroteron ek thermoterou kineisthai kai touto legomen, hôsper ge kai ei ti xêron ex Pg 6 Greek text hygrou ê hygron ek xêrou gignoito.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

England XXXVII General
An Historic Sale of United States Bonds in England XXXVII General Grant's Administration XXXVIII General Grant as a Statesman XXXIX Reminiscences of Public Men XL Blaine and Conkling and the Republican Convention of 1880 XLI From 1875 to 1895 XLII The Last of the Ocean Slave Traders XLIII Mr. Lincoln as an Historical Personage XLIV Speech on Columbus XLV Imperialism as a Public Policy INDEX REMINISCENCES OF SIXTY YEARS IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS VOLUME II XXVIII SERVICE IN CONGRESS
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

E Xcept God
E Xcept God do by his especial grace and ouerruling power, restraine the malice of these Witches and preserue his Children, they are permissiuely able, a through the helpe of the Diuell 17 D their maister, to hurt Men and Beasts, and trouble the elements, by vertue of that contract & agreement which they haue made with him.
— from A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts

Ep xv gives
Paul, when writing to the Corinthians, (1 Ep. xv.) gives his idea of the resurrection of the just as one in which each man will be a spiritual edition of his former terrestrial self, but beyond the statement in 1 Thess.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

example X gains
5. Work the following example: X gains 25 pounds during the year.
— from Diet and Health; With Key to the Calories by Lulu Hunt Peters

e xi Gosp
St. Saba 61 e [xi], Gosp., 4to.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Eric XIV Gustavus
The quarrel began by Eric XIV., Gustavus Vasa's successor, professing that he would reinstate the Hansa in all her privileges in his kingdom; but demanding in return from the League far more than it had ever possessed in Sweden, namely, a factory and special privileges in every town of the League.
— from The Hansa Towns by Helen Zimmern

expedition xxv Gold
; his expedition into the interior, 191 , 202 ; not the pilot of that name, 202 ; 209 , 231 Garcia Diego, the pilot, xiv , 202 Garcia, Ruy, sent by Irala to Peru, 75 Gastra, de. See Caceres Geese, 15 , 19 , 63 , 66 , 68 , 118 ; kept by Indians to destroy crickets, 168 Germans take part in Mendoza’s expedition, xxv Gold and silver, 45 , 48 , 49 , 90 , 212 , 214 , 232 , 244 Gold plates worn for ornaments, 48 Gomara, Francisco Lopez de, xxvii Gomera, island, 2 Gonzales, Bartolomé, 241 Gonzalo, an Indian, 103 Gran Canaria, 100 Guaçani, an Indian chief, his hostility to the Spaniards, 170 , 180 , 181 , 191 Guadalquivir, comparison with, 117 Guadix, 253 Guaira (or Paraná), Jesuit missions in, 111 ; province of, xix , xxii , xxviii , xxxiii , 36 , 81 Guanacos, 63 Guapay, river, 65 , 73 .
— from The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) by Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century


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