Curialia Miscellanea; Or, Anecdotes of Old Times: Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History

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J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1818 - Anecdotes - 351 pages

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Page 269 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 158 - In mundo erat, et mundus per ipsum factus est, et mundus eum non cognovit.
Page 157 - In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum.
Page 156 - Euntes in mundum universum praedicate Evangelium omni creaturae, qui crediderit et baptizatus fuerit, salvus erit, qui vero non crediderit, condemnabitur.
Page 163 - THE Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey, be now and evermore thy defence; and make thee know and feel that there is none other Name under heaven given to man, in whom, and through whom, thou mayest receive health and salvation, but only the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 160 - Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, Filium tuum. Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus sancti Deus. Per omnia saecula saeculorum.
Page 163 - And graciously hear us, that those evils, which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, be brought to nought; and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed ; that we thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church ; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Page 163 - The Almighty Lord, who is a most strong Tower to all them that put their Trust in, him ; to whom all things in Heaven, in Earth, and under the Earth, do bow and obey, be now and evermore...
Page 135 - Touch alone, without any assistance of Chirurgery; and those, many of them, such as had tired out the endeavours of able Chirurgeons before they came thither. It were endless to recite what I myself have seen, and what I •have received acknowledgments of by Letter, not only from the several parts of this Nation, but also from Ireland, Scotland, Jersey and Garnsey.
Page 158 - Noble, and the sick Person to have the same Angel hanged about his neck, and to wear it until he be full whole.

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