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On marrying after being widowed, see Severy 2003, 53.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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We do need to be a little cautious about the term gravis, to which translators react differently; see Severy 2003, 149.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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At Tunbridge, some weeks after the publication of my History, I reluctantly quitted Lord and Lady Sheffield, and, with a young Swiss friend, M.Wilhelm. de Severy, whom I had introduced to the English world, I pursued the road of Dover and Lausanne.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994
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Among the circle of my acquaintance at Lausanne, I have gradually acquired the solid and tender friendship of a respectable family, the family of de Severy: the four persons of whom it is composed are all endowed with the virtues best adapted to their age and situation; and I am encouraged to love the parents as a brother, and the children as a father.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994
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Severy persons were chosen to speak in that part of the country concerning the railroad.
M. L. Latta (Morgan London), b. 1853. The History of My Life and Work. Autobiography by Rev. M. L. Latta, A.M., D.D. Morgan London 1903
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He was forced to travel through Germany, and in his ignorance of the language he required an interpreter; young de Severy, the son of his deceased friend, joyfully, and out of mere affection for him, undertook the office of courier.
Gibbon James Cotter Morison 1860
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Among the circle of my acquaintance at Lausanne, I have gradually acquired the solid and tender friendship of a respectable family, the family of de Severy: the four persons of whom it is composed are all endowed with the virtues best adapted to their age and situation; and I am encouraged to love the parents as a brother, and the children as a father.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765
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Among the circle of my acquaintance at Lausanne, I have gradually acquired the solid and tender friendship of a respectable family, the family of de Severy: the four persons of whom it is composed are all endowed with the virtues best adapted to their age and situation; and I am encouraged to love the parents as a brother, and the children as a father.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765
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Lord and Lady Sheffield, and, with a young Swiss friend, M.Wilhelm. de Severy, whom I had introduced to the English world, I pursued the road of Dover and Lausanne.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765
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Lord and Lady Sheffield, and, with a young Swiss friend, M.Wilhelm. de Severy, whom I had introduced to the English world, I pursued the road of Dover and Lausanne.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765
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