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... chapters , sections , paragraphs ; I have indeed made one or two special and occasional exceptions , as perhaps in including St. Augustine and Orosius under this title . Also some of the references to Albertus Magnus and the Arabian ...
... chapters , sections , paragraphs ; I have indeed made one or two special and occasional exceptions , as perhaps in including St. Augustine and Orosius under this title . Also some of the references to Albertus Magnus and the Arabian ...
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... chapter contains a circumstantial account of the visit of the Assyrian chiefs to the tent , and how Bagoas , having lifted the curtain after some hesitation , saw ' cadaver absque capite Holofernis in suo sanguine tabefactum jacere ...
... chapter contains a circumstantial account of the visit of the Assyrian chiefs to the tent , and how Bagoas , having lifted the curtain after some hesitation , saw ' cadaver absque capite Holofernis in suo sanguine tabefactum jacere ...
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... chapter of Revelation ( vv . 9 , 12 ) is a very different one : The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth . . . . and the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings . ' It does not of course follow that these in ...
... chapter of Revelation ( vv . 9 , 12 ) is a very different one : The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth . . . . and the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings . ' It does not of course follow that these in ...
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... chapter he states this to be a legitimate inference from the words of Scripture : ' Unde colligitur , gigantem illum Nebroth fuisse illius conditorem . . . . quamvis This is the reading of the Vetus Itala . See Sabatier h . 1 . perfecta ...
... chapter he states this to be a legitimate inference from the words of Scripture : ' Unde colligitur , gigantem illum Nebroth fuisse illius conditorem . . . . quamvis This is the reading of the Vetus Itala . See Sabatier h . 1 . perfecta ...
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... chapters of De Civ . Dei also by the remarkable quotation in De Mon. III . iv . 11. 52 seqq . Among other authors likely to have been familiar to Dante , Isidore , Orosius , Hugh of St. Victor and Brunetto Latini recognize the same ...
... chapters of De Civ . Dei also by the remarkable quotation in De Mon. III . iv . 11. 52 seqq . Among other authors likely to have been familiar to Dante , Isidore , Orosius , Hugh of St. Victor and Brunetto Latini recognize the same ...
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