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of Charles XII
Then taking up from the table a book which I had been reading, which happened to be Voltaire's History of Charles XII., he presented it, with as grave an air as he could assume, to the Frenchman.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

of Charles XII
This place was the last Turkish residence of Charles XII.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

of Creation x
A far finer composition than this is the Song of Creation (x. 129):— Non-being then existed not, nor being: There was no air, nor heaven which is beyond it.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

of Conscience XLV
The First Cloud XXXVII His Excellency XXXVIII The Procession XXXIX Doña Consolación XL Right and Might XLI Two Visits XLII The Espadañas XLIII Plans XLIV An Examination of Conscience XLV The Hunted XLVI The Cockpit XLVII The Two Señoras XLVIII The Enigma XLIX The Voice of the Hunted [ iv ] L Elias’s Story LI Exchanges LII The Cards of the Dead and the Shadows LIII Il Buon Dí Si Conosce
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

on Chapter XLII
We know Nietzsche’s ideal man was that “world-approving, exuberant, and vivacious creature, who has not only learnt to compromise and arrange with that which was and is, but wishes to have it again, AS IT WAS AND IS, for all eternity insatiably calling out da capo, not only to himself, but to the whole piece and play” (see Note on Chapter XLII.).
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

our chapter x
For us this probability is important as well as interesting, and especially so when we remember the profound influence which the Celtic St. Patrick’s Purgatory certainly exerted on the Church during the Middle Ages when the doctrine of Purgatory was taking definite shape (see our chapter x ).
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

of Charles X
[Lost Illusions.] MIRBEL (Madame de), well-known miniature-painter from 1796 to 1849; made successively the portrait of Louise de Chaulieu, given by this young woman to the Baron de Macumer, her future husband; of Lucien de Rubempre for Esther Gobseck; of Charles X. for the Princess of Cadignan, who hung it on the wall of her little salon on rue Miromesnil, after the Revolution of 1830.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

of Chapter XXIII
The last part of Chapter XXIII in this Gutenberg eText.—DP. {2} See Handel’s compositions for the harpsichord, published by Litolf, p. 78.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

of Canterbury xxxi
Tatwine, a priest of Bredon, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, xxxi , 379 , 386 , 390 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

of Contents xxi
xx Table of Contents xxi List of Illustrations xxx Maps xxxi
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

of Charles XII
A Jacobite Exile: Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles XII. of Sweden.
— from Blackie & Son's Books for Young People, Catalogue - 1898 by Blackie & Son

of CIL XI
Graecinus became a frater Arualis in 21 ( CIL VI 2023); the C. Pomponius Graecinus of CIL XI 5809 (Iguvium) seems not to have survived to enter the Senate (Syme HO 74-75).
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

of Charles X
The inhabitants of Languedoc and Gascony, and the southern parts of France, are the gayest and most lively of the subjects of Charles X.; but the moment we have crossed the Pyrenees, we are among one of the gravest nations in the world, the Spaniards.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828 by Various

OTTO CHAPTER XXIII
AN INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ERNEST AND A MEETING WITH PRINCE OTTO CHAPTER XXIII
— from The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4 by George Meredith

OF CHAPTER XXXVII
Blatter, II., p. 325.] FOOTNOTES OF CHAPTER XXXVII.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

Outdone CHAPTER XVII
The Mormon Bible—Proofs of its Divinity—Plagiarism of its Authors—Story of Nephi—Wonderful Battle—Kilkenny Cats Outdone CHAPTER XVII.
— from Roughing It, Part 2. by Mark Twain

of chapters XIV
See http://archive.org/details/fairmystery00bramiala TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In the numbering of chapters, XIV was omitted in the original book.
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame

of causes xxxix
Cause of causes, xxxix.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin


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