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A horse and mare, a boar and two sows, and a goat with kid were likewise given to him. The following inscription was cut on the outside of Omai's house: Georgius Tertius, Rex, 2 Novembris, 1777. Naves Resolution, Jacobus Cook, Pr. Discovery, Carolus Clerke, Pr.
I have heard it said that there are some stumps in the state of Maine with the old mark of G. R. upon them." "What does G. R. mean?" asked Marco. "Georgius Rex," replied Forester, "that is, George, the king. If there are any such, the mark on them means that they belonged to the king of England, before this country was separated from England.
The boys of Westminster School, which adjoins the Abbey, have the privilege of shouting out 'Vivat Rex! at the coronation of their Sovereign this means 'Let the King live' and right heartily did the hundreds of young voices greet their King and Queen in this quaint way, shouting, 'Vivat, Vivat, Vivat Rex Georgius! as the King was seen advancing up the aisle.
As for literature, he read the classic poets, to be sure, and the 'Epithalamium' of Georgius Buchanan and Arthur Johnston's Psalms, of a Sunday; and the 'Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum, and Sir David Lindsay's 'Works', and Barbour's 'Brace', and Blind Harry's 'Wallace', and 'The Gentle Shepherd', and 'The Cherry and The Slae.
I can tell indeed that there are three syllables, that it has a harsh sound, and that it begins or ends with such a letter; but that's all; and if I should live long, I do not doubt but I should forget my own name, as some others have done. Messala Corvinus was two years without any trace of memory, which is also said of Georgius Trapezuntius.
And then he remembered he says he cannot think why or wherefore a queer vegetarian restaurant in London where he had once or twice eaten eccentric dishes of cutlets made of lentils and nuts that pretended to be steak. On all the plates in this restaurant there was printed a figure of St. George in blue, with the motto, "Adsit Anglis Sanctus Georgius" "May St.
Wierus himself admits that he often heard a brownie in his father's house, which frightened him not a little, and Georgius Pictorius avers that a noisy spirit haunted his uncle's house for thirty years, a very protracted practical joke, if it was a practical joke. This was a stone-throwing demon.
Allusive or discursive speech scared him like indecency; and I had used his gem but as a peg whereon flauntingly to hang it. It took me three days to tame him and to induce him to show me another of his treasures, recently acquired in Athens. Ioannes Georgius Godelmann's Tractate de Lamiis, printed by Nicholas Bassaeus of Frankfurt.
One of these last asked if there was any chance of his being sent to Egypt. "Why are you so anxious to go to Egypt?" "Because it was there the Holy Family rested," said the lad shyly. The lady to whom he spoke described to him the tree and the Holy Well in St. Georgius, and he listened entranced. Sometimes a rough lot fill the canteen, drawn from the poorest class, perhaps, of an English seaport.
A certain Georgius Agricola, a physician of Heidelberg who died in 1485, makes mention of a deaf mute who had learnt to read and write, but this statement was received with incredulity.
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