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The utmost confidence [said the "Journal Opiz," of Rio], is placed in the cool-headed, audacious American mariner, and we expect in a short time to hear proclaimed in all of the journals of the Old and
Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum 1877
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On the insistence of Opiz, Casanova continued his correspondence, but he passed over nothing more, neither in exact quotations from Latin authors, nor solecisms, nor lame reasonings.
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Casanova sought vainly to convince Opiz of the correctness of his solution.
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Among the Casanova manuscripts at Dux was one giving his final comment on his relations with Opiz.
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Casanova wrote Opiz that he had arrived at the twelfth volume.
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He even reproached him for his poor writing and did not cease joking at the philanthropic and amiable sentiments Opiz loved to parade while at the same time keeping his purse - strings tight.
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This shows plainly enough that Opiz, for all his interest in
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Opiz, at the request of Count Waldstein, made a scientific examination of the reform of the calendar as decreed the 5th
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Opiz, who may be considered as the founder of its modern form, translated several tragedies from the ancients into verse, and composed pastoral operas after the manner of the Italians; but I know not whether he wrote anything expressly for the stage.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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Casanova sought vainly to convince Opiz of the correctness of his solution.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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