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  • That the reverend father Dorotheus should have accumulated an income of three thousand livres a year at the expense of the convent, and consequently of the public, is not only an enormous scandal, but an absolute robbery, and a robbery committed upon the most needy class of citizens in Paris; for the poor are the persons who pay the tax imposed by the mendicant monks.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • And Selden relates that Dorotheus, metropolitan of Monembasis, said there were precisely three hundred and eighteen fathers at this council, because three hundred and eighteen years had elapsed since the incarnation.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Dorotheus, to make up his income of a thousand crowns a year, must have extorted from the poor of Paris, no less a sum than twenty thousand crowns.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Aided by one of his colleagues, Dorotheus, he converted his fellow officials to the Christian faith.

    St. Gorgonius Argent 2006

  • On one occasion, upon witnessing the cruel torturing of a martyr in Diocletian's presence, both Gorgonius and Dorotheus were moved to become martyrs themselves.

    St. Gorgonius Argent 2006

  • Dorotheus the rhetorician, one of our company, said: You speak right, sir, for not only the vulgar and illiterate, but even some of the philosophers, have been of that opinion.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Dorotheus the rhetorician, one of our company, said: You speak right, sir, for not only the vulgar and illiterate, but even some of the philosophers, have been of that opinion.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Dorotheus also em - phasizes the cardines and their lords, the decans, the

    ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

  • They still play a rela - tively modest role in the fifth book of Dorotheus of

    ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

  • Finally, Dorotheus is familiar with a form of contin - uous horoscopy designed to guarantee the astrologer constant patronage.

    ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

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