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XXXI Much like as
XXXI Much like, as when the beaten marinere, That long hath wandred in the Ocean wide, Oft soust in swelling Tethys saltish teare, And long time having tand his tawney hide 275 With blustring breath of heaven, that none can bide, And scorching flames of fierce Orions hound, ° Soone as the port from farre he has espide, His chearefull whistle merrily doth sound, And Nereus crownes with cups ° ; his mates him pledg around.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

XLIII Mr Lincoln as
An Historic Sale of United States Bonds in England XXXVII General Grant's Administration XXXVIII General Grant as a Statesman XXXIX Reminiscences of Public Men XL Blaine and Conkling and the Republican Convention of 1880 XLI From 1875 to 1895 XLII The Last of the Ocean Slave Traders XLIII Mr. Lincoln as an Historical Personage XLIV Speech on Columbus XLV Imperialism as a Public Policy INDEX REMINISCENCES OF SIXTY YEARS IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS VOLUME II XXVIII SERVICE IN CONGRESS
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

xxxv m l and
and of footfolke mo thanne xxxv m l ; and of Englysshmen there were dede a knyght and a squyere and xij footfolke.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

xij m l and
And the kyng with his oost batailed hym ayens the Frensshmen, and manfully he faught ayens them in a feld that is called Aigincourt, and sclowe and toke of them of dukes, erles, barons, knyghtes, and cheveteyns to the noumbre of xij m l ; and of the comown peple mo thanne the noumbre of iij m l , that is for to weten, the duke of Orlyons and the duke of Burbon, the erle of Vendon, the erle of Ewe and the erle of Richemond, with S r . Bursegaunt; Mort.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

xx m l and
And on the xxv day of Octobre was Fryday, and seynt Crispyn and Crispianiani day the lordes and the chyveteynes of Fraunce lay with a gret oost enbatailed to the noumbre of vi xx m l , and wolde a stopped the kynges weye that he schulde nought a passed to his town of Caleys.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

xxiii Martin Luther and
FOOTNOTES [1] Webster, Readings in Medieval and Modern History , chapter xxiii, "Martin Luther and the Beginning of the Reformation"; chapter xxiv, "England in the Age of Elizabeth."
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

XX M L a
[Pg 126] CASE XX. M. L. a woman, aged thirty-eight, was admitted into the house, June 11, 1796.
— from Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam

X Martin Luther Augustinian
IV LETTER TO POPE LEO X, ACCOMPANYING THE "RESOLUTIONS" TO THE XCV THESES 1518 To the Most Blessed Father, LEO X. Martin Luther, Augustinian Friar, wisheth everlasting welfare.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

X MANY LABOURS AND
[112] X MANY LABOURS: AND A BOOK: 1580 CAMPION passed four months of pleasant weather in hard and happy work, moving about Northamptonshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire.
— from Blessed Edmund Campion by Louise Imogen Guiney

XXII Monsieur l Abbé
The Day of Doubt 171 XIX The Day of Lost Confidence 176 XX Monsieur l'Abbé at Home 185 XXI " Little St. Jacques of the Street " 194 XXII Monsieur l'Abbé Lies Ill 201 XXIII " I would talk with some old lover's ghost, who lived before the god of love was born " 210 XXIV The Priest and Faun 216 XXV Monsieur l'Abbé Picot Goes upon a Journey 222
— from The Golden Road by Frank Waller Allen


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