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  • Similar notes are given by Peletarius in his commentary on the arithmetic of Gemma Frisius (1563 ed., fol. 77), and in his own work (1570 Lyons ed., p. 14): "La valeur des Figures commence au coste dextre tirant vers le coste senestre: au rebours de notre maniere d'escrire par ce que la premiere prattique est venue des Chaldees: ou des Pheniciens, qui ont été les premiers traffiquers de marchandise."

    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902

  • Augustanae Confessionis Theologos: sed tamen cum hic articulus magnam piis mentibus consolationem adferat, si recte et dextre explicetur, visum est eundem in hoc scripto declarare, ne forte temporis progressu disputationes aliquae cum offendiculo conjunctae de hoc re exoriantur.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Augustanae Confessionis Theologos: sed tamen cum hic articulus magnam piis mentibus consolationem adferat, si recte et dextre explicetur, visum est eundem in hoc scripto declarare, ne forte temporis progressu disputationes aliquae cum offendiculo conjunctae de hoc re exoriantur.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Item, quod D. Lutherus scripsit, hominis voluntatem in conversione pure passive se habere: id recte et dextre est accipiendum, videlicet, respectu divinae gratiae in accendendis novis motibus, hoc est, de eo intelligi oportet, quando Spiritus

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * Ut hae controversiae solide et dextre explicentur atque decidantur, haec nostra fides, doctrina et confessio est.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Item, quod D. Lutherus scripsit, hominis voluntatem in conversione pure passive se habere: id recte et dextre est accipiendum, videlicet, respectu divinae gratiae in accendendis novis motibus, hoc est, de eo intelligi oportet, quando Spiritus Dei per verbum auditum, aut per usum

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Ut hae controversiae solide et dextre explicentur atque decidantur, haec nostra fides, doctrina et confessio est.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • 'Le plus beau gentilhomme de son siecle, et le plus dextre a toutes sortes de gentillesses,' died at the age of twenty-eight, fulfilling the presentiment which tinges, but scarcely saddens his poetry.

    Ballads, Lyrics, and Poems of Old France Andrew Lang 1878

  • Soubdain après leva la dextre toute ouverte, et toute ouverte la baissa, joignant la poulce au lieu que fermait le petit doigt de la gausche, et les quatre doigtz d'icelle mouvoit lentement en l'aer.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • Puis au rebours feit de la dextre ce qu'il avoit faict de la gausche, et de la gausche ce que avoit faict de la dextre.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

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