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marriages castles leagues etc and
True, early in the seventeenth century Military Statutes ( Buké Hatto ) were promulgated; but their thirteen short articles were taken up mostly with marriages, castles, leagues, etc., and didactic regulations were but meagerly touched upon.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

met Capt Lewis Encamped at
at Dark met Capt Lewis Encamped at the first Village men much fatigued & reduced, the Supply which I sent by R Flds.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

main cc Livre en anglois
Je lui ai cette obligation entre les autres, de m’ auoir non seulement mis en main cc Livre en anglois, mais encore le Manuscrit du Sieur Thomas D’Anan, gentilhomme Eccossois, recommandable pour sa vertu, sur la version duquel j’ advoue que j’ ay tiré le plan de la mienne.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Monte Cristo looking earnestly at
“Ah, indeed?” said Monte Cristo, looking earnestly at the young man, and by an imperceptible movement turning his chair, so that he remained in the shade while the light fell full on Maximilian’s face.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

main cc Livre en anglois
Je lui ai cette obligation entre les autres, de m’ auoir non seulement mis en main cc Livre en anglois, mais encore le Manuscrit du Sieur Thomas D’Anan, gentilhomme Eccossois, recommandable pour sa vertu, sur la version duquel j’ advoue que j’ ay tir� le plan de la mienne.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

M Cato locum editum asperumque
[305] 'Milites ad Verrucam illum— sic enim M. Cato locum editum asperumque appellat —ire jubeas' (Gell.
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

my chamber Lebel entered and
All I shall say is, that the following day, as soon as I was left alone in my chamber, Lebel entered, and prostrating himself at the side of my bed,— “Madame la comtesse,” said he, “is queen and mistress here.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

makes control less effective and
Change in organization, therefore, makes control less effective, and tends to confusion in administration, and to general diminution of efficiency in the Force.
— from Organization: How Armies are Formed for War by Hubert Foster

Monsieur Clarges Laure exclaimed as
"Oh! Monsieur Clarges," Laure exclaimed, as she sat by the side of his great fire, the cloak removed from her shoulders, her hood off, and her beautiful hair, unspoilt by any wig, looped up behind her head.
— from Servants of Sin: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

mother Constance Leroux Ella all
His father, mother, Constance, Leroux, Ella, all of whom he, the upright, stainless man, had condemned, stood before him clothed in a new light; and by reason of their warm humanity, their struggles, their sufferings, they stood higher in the scale of being than he.
— from The White Dove by William John Locke

Morley Christopher Love epidemic agues
506 May, William, fever and influenza in Cornwall, 373 Mead, Richard, the Dunkirk rant, 340 , no failures of inoculation, 487 , 488 Measles , etymology of, 632 , variolae translated by, 633 , in 17th cent., 634 , 640 , Sydenham on, 635 , indirect mortality from in 1674, 636 , in 18th cent., 641 , at Manchester, 644 , at Northampton, 645 , in the Foundling Hospital, 646 , [Pg 876] increased fatality at end of 18 cent., 647 , anomalous at Uxbridge, 649 , the great epidemic of 1807-8, 651 , the epidemic in Glasgow, 652 , comparison of in London and Glasgow, 655 , Watt’s doctrine of substitution, 655-7 , reception of same, 657 , sequelae of, 659 , recent statistics of, 660 , recent highest death-rates from, 663 , progression of epidemics, 663 , season of, 664 , age-incidence of, 664 , an illustrative epidemic of, 665 Merthyr Tydvil, enteric fever, 219 , cholera in 1849, 844-5 , 847 , in 1854, 851 , in 1866, 857 Miasmatic infection , Sydenham’s and Boyle’s doctrine of, 29 , 400 , of enteric fever, 222-3 , of endemic ague, 302 , of influenza in, 401-5 , after earthquakes, 415-20 , of dengue, 424 , not excluded in scarlatina, 732 , of diphtheria, 745 , of dysentery, 788 , of cholera, 842 Middlesborough, enteric fever, 221 Miliary fever , 72 , 76 , 124 , 127 , 128-131 Milk , a vehicle of enteric fever, 222 , of scarlatina, 734 , of diphtheria, 745 Millar, Dr, isolation of fever patients, 178 Miller, Hugh, Cromarty cholera, 814 Molyneux, Dr, influenza of 1688, 336 , of 1693, 337 Minorca, localized influenza of 1748, 352 , mild and severe smallpox, 547 Missenden, Great, inoculation revived, 592 Moir, D. M., Musselburgh cholera, 806 Monro, Alexander, primus, influenza of 1762, 357 note , procuring the smallpox in Scotland, 471 , inoculation in same, 509 Monro, A. Campbell, measles at Jarrow, 663 Monro, Donald, war typhus, 110 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, favours inoculation, 467-8 , referred to in prize poem, 588 Moore, John, on “putrid” fevers, 130 , improved health of London, 133 Morley, Christopher Love, epidemic agues and influenzas of 1678-79, 329 , 332 Morton, Richard, worm fever, 7 , scale of malignity in fevers, 16 , fevers of 1678-80, 21 , smallpox not fatal to infants, 441 , opposed to the cooling regimen in do., 448 , fourteen things that make smallpox severe, 451-2 , pock-pits, 456 , measles of 1674, 657 , his view of scarlatina, 682 , cholera nostras, 771 , dysentery infective, 772 Moryson, Fynes, dietetic habits of Irish, 226 Moseley, Benjamin, practice of vaccination in 1808, 586 Moss, Mr, Liverpool public health 18th cent., 141 note , 368 Mudge, John, experiment in inoculation, 501 , 558 Mulgrave, Lord, vaccination among rich and poor, 589 Murchison, Charles, enteric fever in Edinburgh, 200 , cause of increase of same in London, 202 , history of relapsing fever 1842, 203 , enteric of 1846, 206 note , table of typhus in hospitals, 210 , confuses marsh agues with epidemic agues, 303-4 note , cerebro-spinal fever a variety of typhus, 863 Murre , old name of influenza, 305 , 432 Musselburgh, cholera in 1832, 806 Nairn, war typhus in 1746, 109 , cholera in 1832, 813-14 Navy , health of in 17th cent., 102 , in 18th cent., 104 , Smollett on, 107 note , in the Seven Years’ War and American War, 111-117 , improvement in, 119 Neath, high scarlatina death-rate, 728 , cholera in 1849, 845 , in 1866, 857 Nervous fever, of Willis in 1661, 5 , or hysteric, 67 , 70 , of Wintringham and Hillary, 72 , of Gilchrist, 75 , of Huxham, 76 , or putrid, 120-128 Nettleton, Thomas, pioneer of inoculation, 470 , inspires Jurin, 479 , gives a real smallpox, 483 , his theory of inoculation, 483-4 , ceases to inoculate, 485 , his statistics of smallpox fatality, 518 New acquaintance, 308 , ague, 306 , 307 , delight, 332 , disease, 312-13 , 344 , Boyle on, 313 note , distemper of 1688, 335 , fever of Sydenham, 23 , 27 Newburn, cholera of 1832, 804 Newcastle-on-Tyne, typhus in 18th cent., 142 , 156 note , in 1816-19, 172 , “jolly rant” of 1675, 327 note , agues of 1780, 369 , inoculation of infants, 507 , no smallpox statistics, 539 , comparison of inoculations and vaccinations, 582 , scarlatina in 1778-9, 712 , in 1779-1802, 720 , in 1802-27, 723 , dysentery 18th cent., 780 , 784 , cholera of 1831-2, 802 , cholera of 1853, 849 Newcastle-under-Lyme, cholera of 1849, 847 Newhaven, cholera of 1848, 835 Newman, John Henry, priests in the Irish fever, 207 note , “chemists for our cooks,” 280 Newton Stewart, smallpox of 1816, 574 Norfolk Island, strangers’ cold of, 432 North, Roger, his fever in 1661, 8 , on Lord Guildford’s fever, 321 , fashion of blood-letting, 325 note [Pg 877] Northampton, smallpox statistics in 1747, 524 , vital statistics, 525 , measles and whooping-cough 18th cent., 645 , infantile diarrhoea, 765 Norwich, high mortality of 1740-42, 82 , smallpox beginning of 19th cent., 569 , 578 , epidemic of 1819, 578 , vaccinations at, 585 , inoculations at, 591 , smallpox in 1838-9, 605 , infantile diarrhoea, 766 Notification at Leeds in 1804, 180 note , and incorrect diagnosis, 864 Nottingham, fever in 1808, 165 , 18th cent.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

more common less esteemed and
This is the more common, less esteemed, and larger fruit, weighing, in some instances, fifty or sixty pounds.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden


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