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And speaking of the first manner, it shall be made evident by two Examples, the one ancient, the other moderne, without entring otherwise into the justice or merit of this part; for I take it that these are sufficient for any body that is forc'd to follow them. Agathocles the Sicilian, not of a private man onely, but from a base and abject fortune, got to be King of Siracusa.
The ancients, especially the Greeks, were very fond of theatrical representations; but, as Mr. Magnin has remarked in his Origines du Theatre Moderne, public representations were very expensive, and for that very reason very rare.
Lethieullier, to whom it had been alienated by the Vyner family. A very pleasant place, bought by him of Sir James Harrington's lady. He took us up and down with great respect, and showed us all his house and grounds; and it is a place not very moderne in the garden nor house, but the most uniforme in all that ever I saw; and some things to excess.
On their report the academy granted me a certificate full of fine compliments, amidst which it appeared that in reality it judged my system to be neither new nor useful. I did not think proper to ornament with such a paper the work entitled 'Dissertation sur la musique moderne', by which I appealed to the public.
As to the name and boundaries of Chaldæa, see also GUIGNAUT, La Chaldée et les Chaldéens, in the Encyclopédie Moderne, vol. viii. HERODOTUS, i. 106, 192; iii. 92. PLINY, Nat. Hist. vi. 26. STRABO, xvi. i. § 1. Genesis xi. 28 and 31; Isaiah xlvii. 1; xiii. 19, &c.; DIODORUS ii. 17; PLINY, Nat.
"The barbed formation of the point explains how, under the stroking with the finger, it was forced through the dense tarsal cartilage and against the cornea of the eye." There is a story told in La Medecine Moderne of a seamstress of Berlin who was in the habit of allowing her dog to lick her face.
How much more then ought we to beleeue this passage to Cataia to bee, being verified by the opinions of all the best, both Antique, and Moderne Geographers, and plainely set out in the best and most allowed Mappes, Charts, Globes, Cosmographical tables and discourses of this our age, and by the rest not denied but left as a matter doubtfull.
He took us up and down with great respect, and showed us all his house and grounds; and it is a place not very moderne in the garden nor house, but the most uniforme in all that ever I saw; and some things to excess. The window-cases, door-cases, and chimnys of all the house are marble.
He took us up and down with great respect, and showed us all his house and grounds; and it is a place not very moderne in the garden nor house, but the most uniforme in all that ever I saw; and some things to excess. The window-cases, door-cases, and chimnys of all the house are marble.
Musset-Pathay, i. 289. Preface to Dissertation sur la Musique Moderne, pp. 32, 33. I am indebted to Mr. James Sully, M.A., for furnishing me with notes on a technical subject with which I have too little acquaintance. Dissertation, p. 42. Conf., vii. 18, 19. Also Dissertation, pp. 74, 75.
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