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• “The Gettysburg address is my favourite pece of political writing. "that government: of the people, by the people, for the people," - Has anyone else described the democratic ideal so succinctly and eloquently?”

  Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege

• “And the overhwart pece was of palme: for in the Olde Testament, it was ordyned, that whan on overcomen, he scholde be crowned with palme: and for thei trowed, that thei hadden the victorye of Crist Jesus, therfore made thei the overthwart pece of palme. 13 And the table of the tytle, thei maden of olyve; for olyve betokenethe pes.”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “That wher Europe alone, (and not al that by a great deale) standeth in the belief of Christe: almoste all Asie, and Aphrique, yea and a greate pece of Europe standeth in the”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “And the overhwart pece was of palme: for in the Olde Testament, it was ordyned, that whan on overcomen, he scholde be crowned with palme: and for thei trowed, that thei hadden the victorye of Crist Jesus, therfore made thei the overthwart pece of palme. 459 And the table of the tytle, thei maden of olyve; for olyve betokenethe pes.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “For thei trowed, that the body of Crist scholde have stonken; therfore thei made that pece, that went from the erthe upward, of cypres: for it is welle smellynge; so that the smelle of his body scholde not greve men, that wenten forby.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “For that pece, that went upright fro the erthe to the heved,”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “And than the preestes casten the gobettes of the flesche; and than the foules eche of hem takethe that he may, and gothe a litille thens and etethe it: and so thei don whils ony pece lastethe of the dede body.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “It was the view of the ANC that rugby would strive to make a contribution towards pece and democracy and, ultimately, peace and reconciliation.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “_Dear Sir: _ I would like to get in touch with you a pece of advise I am unable to under go hard work as I have a fracture ancle but in the mene time I am able to help my selft a great dele.”

  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919

• “Thow fals Heretike, tratour, and theif, thow saidest that the Sacrament of the Altare was but a pece of bread, backin upon the asches, and no other thing elles; and all that is thare done, is but a superstitious ryte aganis the commandiment of God.”

  The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)

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