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[Sidenote: Inuentours of al excellent artes and sci - ences, com - mended to the posteritee.] what can bee more excellently set foorthe: or what deserueth chiefer fame and glorie, then the knowledge of artes and sci - ences, inuented by our learned, wise, and graue au [n] cestours: and so moche the more thei deserue honour, and perpetuall commendacions, because thei haue been the firste aucthours, and beginners to soche excellencies.

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

One thing may precede another in two ways: firstly by its very nature; and in this sense the contemplative life precedes the active in that it is occupied with chiefer and better things, and hence it both moves and directs the active life.

On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907

Every now and then a new governor supplanted the incumbent, who returned to France, and a few of the chiefer officials were changed; but the most of them were Tahitian French by birth or long residence.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

And Shon McGann and Pretty Pierre turned back from the end of their quest -- from a mighty grave behind to a lonely waste before; and though one was snow-blind, and the other knew that on him fell the chiefer weight of a great misfortune, for he must provide food and fire and be as

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

And Shon McGann and Pretty Pierre turned back from the end of their quest -- from a mighty grave behind to a lonely waste before; and though one was snow-blind, and the other knew that on him fell the chiefer weight of a great misfortune, for he must provide food and fire and be as

Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897

Emelya, or of those two for each other, is the chiefer subject of the

The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866

Such comradeship, though instances of it are to be found everywhere, is still especially a classical motive; Chaucer expressing the sentiment of it so strongly in an antique tale, that one knows not whether the love of both Palamon and Arcite for Emelya, or of those two for each other, is the chiefer subject of the Knight's

The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Walter Pater 1866

I had no chiefer aim than to convince her that I desired a place in her heart, and that she might be quite sure that I would not refuse her invitation.

The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

I answered that, excepting a certain matter of which her father knew, I had no chiefer aim than to convince her that I desired a place in her heart, and that she might be quite sure that I would not refuse her invitation.

Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 12: Return to Paris Giacomo Casanova 1761

I answered that, excepting a certain matter of which her father knew, I had no chiefer aim than to convince her that I desired a place in her heart, and that she might be quite sure that I would not refuse her invitation.

The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761