Then said Pantagruel, Gossip, I know not if the walls do comprehend the meaning of your words, but none of us here doth so much as understand one syllable of them. — from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
knowing none in the
With what honour these gentlemen entreated me and how cheerfully they received me together with their ladies, it were a long story to tell; suffice it to say that we took ship and came, after some days, to Baffa, where finding myself arrived and knowing none in the place, I knew not what to say to the gentlemen, who would fain have delivered me to my father, according to that which had been enjoined them of the reverend lady; but God, taking pity belike on my affliction, brought me Antigonus upon the beach what time we disembarked at Baffa, whom I straightway hailed and in our tongue, so 99 as not to be understood of the gentlemen and their ladies, bade him receive me as a daughter. — from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio
The error is due to the fact that he who does not know neurotics imagines the connection between content and affect as all too intimate, and cannot, therefore, grasp the fact that a content may be altered without any corresponding change in the accompanying affect-expression. — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
With their ancient kindliness naked in their faces, St. George knew that through his love he was as near to the Source as were they. — from Romance Island by Zona Gale
knew nothing in the
And if Jack had left Cairo that night, as he said he did—claiming delay on the way due to a tired horse—then Jack knew nothing in the world of the palace fire, and the girl's sudden and tragic death. — from The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley
329 sq km Juan de Nova Island: total: 4.4 sq km land: 4.4 sq km water: 0 sq km Kazakhstan: total: 2,717,300 sq km land: 2,669,800 sq km water: 47,500 sq km Kenya: total: 582,650 sq km land: 569,250 sq km water: 13,400 sq km Kingman Reef: total: 1 sq km land: 1 sq km water: 0 sq km Kiribati: total: 717 sq km land: 717 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes three island groups - Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Phoenix Islands Korea, North: total: 120,540 sq km land: 120,410 sq km water: 130 sq km Korea, South: total: 98,480 sq km land: 98,190 sq km water: 290 sq km Kuwait: total: 17,820 sq km land: 17,820 sq km water: 0 sq km Kyrgyzstan: total: 198,500 sq km land: 191,300 sq km water: 7,200 sq km Laos: total: 236,800 sq km land: 230,800 sq km water: 6,000 sq km Latvia: total: 64,589 sq km land: 64,589 sq km water: 0 sq km Lebanon: total: 10,400 sq km land: 10,230 sq km water: 170 sq km Lesotho: total: 30,355 sq km land: 30,355 sq km water: 0 sq km Liberia: total: 111,370 sq km land: 96,320 sq km water: 15,050 sq km Libya: total: 1,759,540 sq km land: 1,759,540 sq km water: 0 sq km Liechtenstein: total: 160 sq km land: 160 sq km water: 0 sq km Lithuania: total: 65,200 sq km land: 65,200 sq km water: 0 sq km Luxembourg: total: 2,586 sq km land: 2,586 sq km water: 0 sq km Macau: total: 21 sq km land: 21 sq km water: 0 sq km Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: total: 25,333 sq km land: 24,856 sq km water: 477 sq km Madagascar: total: 587,040 sq km land: 581,540 sq km water: 5,500 sq km Malawi: total: 118,480 sq km land: 94,080 sq km water: 24,400 sq km Malaysia: total: 329,750 sq km land: 328,550 sq km water: 1,200 sq km Maldives: total: 300 sq km land: 300 sq km water: 0 sq km Mali: total: 1.24 million sq km land: 1.22 million sq km water: 20,000 sq km Malta: total: 316 sq km land: 316 sq km water: 0 sq km Man, Isle of: total: 572 sq km land: 572 sq km water: 0 sq km Marshall Islands: total: 181.3 sq km land: 181.3 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, and Kwajalein Martinique: total: 1,100 sq km land: 1,060 sq km water: 40 sq km Mauritania: total: 1,030,700 sq km land: 1,030,400 sq km water: 300 sq km Mauritius: total: 1,860 sq km land: 1,850 sq km water: 10 sq km note: includes Agalega Islands, Cargados Carajos Shoals (Saint Brandon), and Rodrigues Mayotte: total: 374 sq km land: 374 sq km water: 0 sq km Mexico: total: 1,972,550 sq km land: 1,923,040 sq km water: 49,510 sq km Micronesia, Federated States of: total: 702 sq km land: 702 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Pohnpei (Ponape), Truk (Chuuk) Islands, Yap Islands, and Kosrae Midway Islands: total: 6.2 sq km land: 6.2 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Eastern Island, Sand Island, and Spit Island Moldova: total: 33,843 sq km land: 33,371 sq km water: 472 sq km Monaco: total: 1.95 sq km land: 1.95 sq km water: 0 sq km Mongolia: total: 1.565 million sq km land: 1.565 million sq km water: 0 sq km Montserrat: total: 100 sq km land: 100 sq km water: 0 sq km Morocco: total: 446,550 sq km land: 446,300 sq km water: 250 sq km Mozambique: total: 801,590 sq km land: 784,090 sq km water: 17,500 sq km Namibia: total: 825,418 sq km land: 825,418 sq km water: 0 sq km Nauru: total: 21 sq km land: 21 sq km water: 0 sq km Navassa Island: total: 5.2 sq km land: 5.2 sq km water: 0 sq km Nepal: total: 140,800 sq km land: 136,800 sq km water: 4,000 sq km Netherlands: total: 41,526 sq km land: 33,883 sq km water: 7,643 sq km Netherlands Antilles: total: 960 sq km land: 960 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten (Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin) — from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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