BOILED FISH PISCES ELIXOS XIX .
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
“A lovely and fruitful city, adapted to every recreation,” says a scholiast on Homer, and Diodorus 233 speaks of Sicyon as a place “for peaceful enjoyment.” XX. Phliasia.
— from Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,' by James George Frazer
Some of Duke Jean’s friends presented early XV-century windows to the side chapels of Bourges Cathedral.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
The logicians will not see that their formal proposition, "Every X is Y," is material in three points, the degree of assertion, the quantity of the proposition, and the copula.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan
Strindberg plunged into art-criticism, and exposed Count George von Rosen's famous picture "Erik XIV and Karin Månsdotter," in the National Museum of Stockholm, to the fire of his discontent.
— from August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt: Studies and Impressions by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
The directions as to the disposal of the Canaanites, are mainly in the following passages: Ex. xxiii.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
The directions as to the disposal of the Canaanites, are mainly in the following passages, Ex. xxiii.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
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