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Paul, because, at a general council holden at Rome, anno 1176, it was decreed, "That every cathedral church should have its schoolmaster, to teach poor scholars and others as had been accustomed, and that no man should take any reward for licence to teach."
A true report of a worthy fight, performed in the voyage from Turkie, by fiue ships of London, against 11. Gallies, and two frigats of the King of Spaines, at Pantalarea within the Streights. Anno, 1586. Written by Philip Iones.
It was entitled The examination and confession of certaine Wytches at Chensforde in the Countie of Essex before the Quenes Maiesties Judges the XXVI daye of July anno 1566. The trial there recorded is one that presents some of the most curious and inexplicable features in the annals of English witchcraft. The personnel of the "size" court is mysterious.
Lord Macaulay took the subject in hand and tossed it up and down for half a dozen pages with a gusto that drove home to many minds the conviction, the strange conviction, that our greatest biography was written by one of the very smallest men that ever lived, 'a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect' by a dunce, a parasite, and a coxcomb; by one 'who, if he had not been a great fool, would never have been a great writer. So far Macaulay, anno Domini 1831, in the vigorous pages of the Edinburgh Review.
I knew no one in the town; I had no one to be my guide, so I accompanied the cows, and came to the churchyard. The cows went past, but I stepped over the stile, and stood amongst the graves, where the grass grew high, and almost all the tombstones lay with worn-out inscriptions. On a few only the date of the year was legible. "Anno" yes, what then? And who rested here?
"And so, very dear wife, children, children-in-law, and grandchildren, I commend you to God's holy keeping. "I have been thus far well and honourably treated and accommodated, for which I thank his princely Excellency. "From my chamber of arrest, last of August, anno 1618. "Your dear husband, father, father-in-law, and grand father,
"Informing the officials of the palace," said Benno, "that his Holiness has retired for his devotions, and desires on no account to be disturbed." "A pious fraud," said Anno, "which not one of the Fathers would for a moment have scrupled to commit." The Cardinals accordingly lifted the still insensible Lucifer, and bore him carefully, almost tenderly, to the apartment appointed for his detention.
When at length the lamp arrived, Zarco trimmed it carefully, unfolded his parchment, spread it on the table, and began to read very deliberately in his rolling voice, pausing and looking up between the sentences while the man Martin translated "This is the statement made to me by Roger Prance, the Englishman, Anno MCCCCIX., at various times in the month before he died.
Teetotaller she calls herself, but she played a bo'sun's part in that red-currant fool. Bit rosy, I thought her, as we escorted her home." "So she was," said the Major. "So she was. Said good-bye to us on her doorstep as if she thought she was a perfect Venus Ana Ana something." "Anno Domini," giggled Puffin. "Well, well, we all get long in the tooth in time," said Major Flint charitably.
And on the wester with the following: GRATA PATRIA Piae et Perpetuae Memorie Invincible in the Field The Greatest of Captains Inviolable in his Faith The Best of Princes Unfeigned in his Zeal The Happiest of Legislators Immortal in his Fame The Most Sincere of Christians Who setting the Kingdoms of Earth at Liberty, Took the Kingdom of the Heavens by Violence. Anno AEtat. suoe 116
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