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• It was at this point that Henry departed from his role as the epitome of all Olympian waiters and advanced on the group. —  Banquets of the Black Widowers
• Nietzsche “declares war” upon Richard Wagner, whose music is characterized as the epitome of modern cultural achievement and also as sick and decadent. —  Friedrich Nietzsche
• In 1989 the people of East Germany themselves finally rose up and denounced the Stasi as the epitome of their previous repression. —  The Stasi on Our Minds
• [2 Footnote 1: Besides the Mahawanso, Rajaratnacari_, and Rajavali_, the other native chronicles relied on by Turnour in compiling his epitome were the Pujavali_, composed in the thirteenth century, the Neekaasangraha_, written A.D. 1347, and the Account of the Embassy to Siam in the reign of Raja Singha II., A.D. 1739-47, by WILBAAGEDERE MUDIANSE Footnote 2: By the help of TURNOUR'S translation of the Mahawanso and the versions of the Rajaratnacari and Rajavali, published by Upham, two authors have since expanded the Epitome of the former into something like a connected narrative, and those who wish to pursue the investigation of the early story of the island, will find facilities in the History of Ceylon, published by KNIGHTON in 1845, and in the first volume of Ceylon and its Dependencies, by PRIDHAM, London, 1849. —  Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
• 2] [Footnote 1: Besides the _Mahawanso, Rajaratnacari_, and _Rajavali_, the other native chronicles relied on by Turnour in compiling his epitome were the _Pujavali_, composed in the thirteenth century, the —  Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)

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