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  • So he saluted her and talked with her and sat tailoring awhile, after which the handmaid came to him and said, “My mistress greeteth thee and informeth thee that her husband purposeth to lie abroad this night in the house of some intimate friends of his; so, when he is gone, do thou come to us and spend the night with my lady in delightsomest joyance till the morning.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • It is the will of our lord the Sultan that whoso happeneth on Nur al-Din Ali son of Al-Fazl bin Khákán, and bringeth him to the Sultan, shall receive a robe of honour and one thousand gold pieces; and he who hideth him or knoweth his abiding place and informeth not, deserveth whatsoever pains and penalties shall befal him.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • [3475] Labouring men that sing to their work, can tell as much, and so can soldiers when they go to fight, whom terror of death cannot so much affright, as the sound of trumpet, drum, fife, and such like music animates; metus enim mortis, as [3476] Censorinus informeth us, musica depellitur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • God is better able, as [6768] Bernard informeth us, to help, than sin to do us hurt; Christ is better able to save, than the devil to destroy.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [4811] Balthazar Castilio fall in love with a young man whom they never knew, but only heard him commended: or by reading of a letter; for there is a grace cometh from hearing, [4812] as a moral philosopher informeth us, as well from sight; and the species of love are received into the fantasy by relation alone: [4813] ut cupere ab aspectu, sic velle ab auditu, both senses affect.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Daulis and Thebes no swallows (so Pausanius informeth us) as well as the rest of Greece, [3052] Ithaca no hares, Pontus asses,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Philosophos, c.xlviii. informeth us, out of the authority of Zenophanes; or little clouds, ad motum nescio quem volantes; which never appear, saith

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • My memorie informeth me friend Tingoccio, your kinde

    The Decameron 2004

  • Now, the main of the proof here insisted on lieth in the declaration of that which he calleth the “common doctrine of perseverance;” and concerning this he informeth his reader, — “That it commandeth all saints to be fully persuaded, and that with the greatest and most indubitable certainty of faith, that there is an absolute and utter impossibility either of a total or final defection of their faith.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • At the head, then, of his discourse, he placeth this argument, as it is called: — “That doctrine whose genuine and proper tendency is to advance the peace and joy of the saints in believing is of a natural sympathy with the gospel, and upon this account a truth; such is the doctrine which informeth the saints of a possibility of their total and final falling away: ergo.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

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