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In 1604, Robert Cawdrey published The Table Alphabeticall, containing and teaching the true writing and understanding of Hard usuall Words, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, or French, &c.
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Their conference having long time continued, and the heate of the day being somewhat extraordinary, she called for Greeke wine, and banquetting stuffe, drinking to Andrea; and he pledging her very contentedly.
The Decameron 2004
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Which euen the Greeke and Russian priests themselues also esteeme as things strangled or offered vnto idoles: because they were ignorant of the times of fasting, neither could they haue obserued them albeit they had knowen them.
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They holde for a maxime amongst them, that the olde Lawe, and the commandements also are abolished by the death and blood of Christ: all studies and letters of humanitie they vtterly refuse: concerning the Latine, Greeke, and Hebrew tongues, they are altogether ignorant in them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Constantinus Emperours of Constantinople, was together with his whole nation, in the yeare of Christ 988. baptized, and imbraced the Christian religion, with the rites and ceremonies of the Greeke
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They maintaine the opinions of the Greeke Church: they suffer no grauen images of saints in their Churches, but their pictures painted in tables they haue in great abundance, which they do adore and offer vnto, and burne waxe candles before them, and cast holy water vpon them, without other honour.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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At the very same time the Moscouites had receiued the religion, and the Ecclesiasticall ceremonies of the Greeke and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This letter was written also in Greeke, and diuers others languages.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Item full authoritie and power is committed to the said first named factors, together with Richard Chancelor grand Pilot of this fleete, to repaire to the Emperors court, there to present the king and Queenes Maiesties letters, written in Greeke, Polish, and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Their ceremonies are al as they say, according to the Greeke
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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