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  • It points out that the revenues have not been expended for the purposes for which they were levied -- "_on appert clairement, que les dictes finances ne sont point employées à choses dessus dictes_," etc. -- and it closes this its review with the peremptory demand: "_Item, et il fault savoir, où est cette finance," -- "Now, we have a right to know what has become of these funds."

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892

  • The blatant popular voice follows with such "dictes" as, "Women are made of nectar and poison"; "Women have long hair and short wits" and so forth.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • These 187 "dictes" were taken mainly from a MS. collection by one Hanná Misk, ex-dragoman of the British Consulate (Damascus), a little recueil for private use such as would be made by a Syro Christian bourgeois.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • [FN#239] The older Arab writers, I repeat, do not ascribe fables or beast-apologues to Lokman; they record only "dictes" and proverbial sayings.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The blatant popular voice follows with such “dictes” as,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Lokman; they record only “dictes” and proverbial sayings.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Extraict des Catalogues des dictes foires, et reduict en method conuenable, et tres utile. '

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • Or Hilary is said of hilum, which is to say dark matter, for he had in his dictes great obscurity and profoundness.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • That the said eclipse took away the light from the universal parts of the world, it appeareth that Eusebius witnesseth in his chronicles, which saith that he hath read in the dictes of the Ethnicians that there was in Bithynia, which is a province of Asia the less, a great earth shaking, and also the greatest darkness that might be, and also saith that in Nicene, which is a city of

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • Shut, my brother, the books of the prophets and clasp them, for we now have none interpreter of the parables ne paradigmes, ne their dictes.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

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