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My mother charged the officers to ask the council-general for permission to see her son, were it only at meals.
The Queen's Agony elena maria vidal 2009
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My mother charged the officers to ask the council-general for permission to see her son, were it only at meals.
Archive 2009-03-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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In the year 431, the third council-general, held at Ephesus, decided that Jesus had “two natures and one person.”
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Well, said the king, let make a cry, that all the lords, knights, and gentlemen of arms, should draw unto a castle called Camelot in those days, and there the king would let make a council-general and
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There were in the exhibit many statues, pictures, objects of the Paris municipal council and of the council-general of the Department of Seine, the insignia of councils, engravings, reproducing the most important decorative works in the Paris Hotel de Ville (city hall); also work done by pupils of the professional and industrial art schools, such as the
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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He was commander of the Legion of Honor and president of the council-general of his department.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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The individual conferences of each city are usually combined into a particular council, the particular councils of a large locality, province, or country, are federated into a central or a superior council, while the superior councils of all the countries are represented in the council-general in Paris.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Well, said the king, let make a cry, that all the lords, knights, and gentlemen of arms, should draw unto a castle called Camelot in those days, and there the king would let make a council-general and a great jousts.
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*** Then Arthur proclaimed that all the lords, knights, and gentlemen of arms, should draw unto a castle, that was called in those days Camelot, and the king would have a council-general and a great joust.
The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902
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An ecclesiastical congress, calling itself a council-general, but altogether unworthy of that august title, was held, in fact, in the following year at Pisa, under the auspices of the King of France and the emperor Maximilian.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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