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of nature XXXVII

Whatsoever doth happen in the world, is, in the course of nature, XXXVII.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

of Northumbria xxiv

Ethelberg, daughter of Anna, Abbess of Brige, 149 n., 151 , 152 , 153 , 232 n. Ethelberg, or Tata, daughter of Ethelbert of Kent, wife of Edwin of Northumbria, xxiv , 102 , 103 , 104 , 119 , 348 n.; receives a letter and gifts from Pope Boniface, 109 , 111 ; her piety, 110 ; after Edwin's death, returns with her children and Paulinus into Kent, xxv , 131 , 132 ; sends Wusfrea and Yffi to King Dagobert, 132 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

of Northumbria xxiv

Ethelburg, St., sister of Earconwald, Abbess of Barking, xxviii , 232 , 233 ; her miracles, 232 , 233 , 236 , 237 ; death, 235 , 236 , 237 ; burial, 236 ; her spirit appears to Tortgyth, 237 ; “Life of,” xxii , 237 n. Ethelfrid, King of Northumbria, xxiv , 112 , 134 ; defeats the Britons at Legacaestir, xxiv , 87 , 88 ; defeats the Scots at Degsastan, xxiv , 73 , 74 ; his genealogy and reign, 73 , 74 ; his persecution of Edwin, 112 , 113 ; killed in battle by Redwald, 115 ; his wives, 147 n.; his sons, 163 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

of News xxi

; as historical document, xliv ; influence, lxxiv ff .; Every Man in , lvii , lxv ; Every Man out , xix , xx , lvii ; Expostulation with Inigo Jones , xxxix ; Fox , xx , xlix , lxv ; Gipsies Metamorphosed , lxvii ff ., 171 ; Golden Age Restored , xvii ; Love Restored , xxvi ; Magnetic Lady , xxi , lv , lxxvii ; Masque of Beauty , lxvii ; Masque of Queens , lxiv f .; New Inn , xxi ; On the Town’s Honest Man , xl ; Poetaster , xix , xx , lxv f ., lxxvii ; Sad Shepherd , xxvi , lxiv f .; Satyr , xxvi ; Sejanus , xix ; Silent Woman , xlix , lxxvii ; Staple of News , xxi , xl , lxv ; Underwoods 32 , 196 ; Underwoods 36 , lxvi ff ., 170 ; Underwoods 62 , liii , 184 ; Underwoods 64 , lxx .
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

of noon XVI

His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of noon! XVI.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

or No x

Henceforwards, in stating such Propositions as “Some x -Things exist” or “No x -Things are y -Things”, I shall omit the word “Things”, which the Reader can supply for himself, and shall write them as “Some x exist” or “No x are y ”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

or no x

x y are not- z , or no x y exist,” but
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

One Night XVIII

One Night XVIII.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

of Nice xxiv

184, 207, 248, 268 Williams, Dr., of Nice, xxiv.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

OLD NEWSPAPER XIX

THE OLD NEWSPAPER XIX.
— from Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

of night XL

Shaggy or smooth, or clad in scales of light, And more in number than the stars of night: XL " 'And would you hear a mermaid sing so sweet, That the rude sea grows civil at her song, Wont at this hour her music to repeat, (With that she showed the monster huge and long — I said it seemed an island — as her seat)
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

on No XXX

It is difficult to attempt an elucidation of this or the following articles; but the annexed extract from the General Evening Post for 1747 appears to throw some light on No. XXX.
— from The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester from the Original MS., with Historical and Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir by Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of

Orationes No XIV

The best early account of Alesius is the Oratio de Alexandro Alesio of Jacob Thomasius (April 1661), printed in the latter's Orationes (No. XIV., Leipzia, 1683): the best modern account is by Dr A. W. Ward in the Dictionary of National Biography.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

of No XVI

It is worth notice here that this capital is, to a considerable extent, a replica of No. XVI.; but the latter has no inscriptions.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

on Num XXV

Origen, Hom. on Num., XXV.
— from The Transformation of Early Christianity from an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Lyford P. (Lyford Paterson) Edwards

OF NIAGARA XXXVIII

NEW ORLEANS AND OTHER AMERICAN CITIES—A VISIT TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA XXXVIII. —
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

of Numbers xxxv

in accordance with the terms prescribed in a priestly chapter of Numbers (xxxv.).
— from Introduction to the Old Testament by John Edgar McFadyen

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