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sing Pausanias or Xanthippus
The song runs as follows: "Though ye may sing Pausanias or Xanthippus in your lays, Or Leotychides, 'tis Aristeides whom I praise, The best of men as yet produced by holy Athens' State, Since thus upon Themistokles has fall'n Latona's hate: That liar and that traitor base, who for a bribe unclean, Refused to reinstate a man who his own guest had been.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

St Pierre Oeuv xii
Many years after, Rousseau told Bernardin de St. Pierre ( Oeuv. , xii. 57) that one of the reasons which made him leave the Hermitage was the indiscretion of friends who insisted on sending him letters by some conveyance that cost 4 francs, when it might equally well have been sent for as many sous.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

St Pierre Oeuv xii
[368] Bernardin de St. Pierre, Oeuv. , xii.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

second part of xvii
313 what is beautiful in, ib. 343 invention the first part of, ib. 347, 410 design the second part of, xvii, 349, 420 colouring the third part of, ib.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

St Pierre Oeuv xii
[133] Bernardin de St. Pierre, Oeuv. , xii.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

Silver pieces of xiv
Sibylla. See Seville Sierra do Mar, 108 Sierra , meaning of the word, 116 Silver, pieces of, xiv ; crowns, 64 .
— from The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) by Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century

secret police of X
You, the chief of the secret police of X——, you don’t know!”
— from The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Saracen potters of Xativa
Arabian azulejos have been met with, and in 1239, four years after the Moorish kingdom of Granada had been founded, a charter was granted by James I. of Aragon to the Saracen potters of Xativa (San Felipe) relieving them from servitude on payment yearly of one besant for each kiln.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

St Pierre Oeuv xii
[113] Bernardin de St. Pierre, Oeuv. , xii.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley


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