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Bas. xxiv.), regards this as an error, partly caused by the introduction into the text of the word emon, which he has eliminated; and he points out the Gregory of Nyssa, however unwilling to accept consecration, never objected after it had taken place, and was indeed sent to Nazianzus to console the younger Gregory of that place in his distress under like circumstances.
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Graphic Arts blog wrote in Vauxhall Gardens Graphic Arts c1779 by Thomas Rowlandson that the figures were caricatured but identifiable, including Mrs Weichsel singing from the balcony and Mr Barthelemon leading the orchestra.
Archive 2009-09-01 Hels 2009
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Graphic Arts blog wrote in Vauxhall Gardens Graphic Arts c1779 by Thomas Rowlandson that the figures were caricatured but identifiable, including Mrs Weichsel singing from the balcony and Mr Barthelemon leading the orchestra.
C18th Pleasure Gardens; fashions, food, drink, dancing, music Hels 2009
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Even then, however, it is not improbable that she might have been the wife of Nicephorus Bryennius, whom, many years after his death, she speaks of in her history as [Greek: ton emon Kaisara], and in other terms equally affectionate.
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[Greek: Patera ge ton emon mê stugei, posin te son.]
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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He replies, that he has no leisure, being hindered by many matters of private and public importance; and he adds, "I have certain mistresses which will not allow me to be absent from them day nor night, on account of the spells and charms, which learning, they receive from me" -- [Greek: eisi de kai philai moi, ai oute hemeras oute nuktos aph autôn easousi me apienai, philtra te manthanousai par emon kai epôdas.]
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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Les deux trafiquants achetaient des ` ames pour le d ` emon.
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The importance attaching to the post of chief of this board is attested by the fact that only the emon no Kami or the hyoye no Kami* was eligible originally, the bushi
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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In the capital there were three bodies of guards; namely, the emon-fu
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Thereafter the monobe were organized into the konoe-fu (palace guards) and the otomo into the emon-fu (gate guards).
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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