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  • I need to read Poul F. Kjaer's Systems in Context: On the Outcome of the Habermas/Luhmann-Debate (Ancilla Iuris, Vol. 66, 2006) which bears this abstract:

    Discourse.net: A New Take on Habermas/Luhmann 2009

  • Ancilla aut verna est praesto puer; and with Hamlet, but in a dishonest sense: — — Man delights me not

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Votre deuxième ange, écrit Ancilla à soeur Hedwige schabel à Augsbourg, est de la compagnie de Gabriel; un frère, par conséquent, de mon archange bien-aimé.

    Les Anges d'un ordre plus élevé assistent les Anges gardiens de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Votre deuxième ange, écrit Ancilla à soeur Hedwige schabel à Augsbourg, est de la compagnie de Gabriel; un frère, par conséquent, de mon archange bien-aimé.

    Archive 2008-08-24 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Now was our Scholler the onely jocond man of the world, and failed not the time assigned him, but went unto the Ladies house, where Ancilla was ready to give him entertainment, conducting him into the base Court, where she lockt him up fast, untill her Lady should send for him.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Your Woman Ancilla hath sought for you all this day, yet no one could ever have immagined you to bee there.

    The Decameron 2004

  • When she had so said, they went to the appointed chamber window, where they could easily see him, but he not them: and then they heard Ancilla also, calling to him forth of another windowe, saying.

    The Decameron 2004

  • And Madam Helena accompanied with none but Ancilla walked on to her dairy Farme, where the night ensuing, pretending to take her rest sooner then formerly she used to doe, she commanded Ancilla to bed, referring her selfe to her best liking.

    The Decameron 2004

  • After that the sad and discomfortable night had spent it selfe, and the break of day was beginning to appeare; Ancilla the waiting-woman, according as she was instructed by her Lady, went downe and opened the Court doore, and seeming exceedingly to compassionate the Schollers unfortunate night of sufferance, saide unto him.

    The Decameron 2004

  • By this time Ancilla was come thither, who so soone as shee was entred into the Tower, could not refrain from teares and complaints, beating her hands each against other, and crying out.

    The Decameron 2004

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