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  • Therefore is it that Homer in his Iliads calleth a good prince and great king Kosmetora laon, that is, the ornament of the people.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • Ditto with the episodic booms, busts, scandals and havoc that have ensued — the 1960s electronics boom and bust; the 1970s foreign bribery scandals; the Vietnam conflict and related upheaval; the 1980s savings & laon crisis; the 1980s/90s junk bond boom and bust; the late 1990s/early 2000s telecom boom and bust; and the current crisis, and its coming resolution.

    Discourse.net: It's the Known Unknowns That Worry Me 2009

  • "She'll be a while," laon said, with the air of one who has had long experience with wives and daughters.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

  • Access to laon finance including cheap credits for poor communities, group credit schemes and government guarantees for financing schemes in the poorest communities.

    DRAFT MINERAL & ENERGY POLICY 1994

  • In Rom.xi. 2 it hath again the same signification: “God hath not cast off ton laon hautou hon proegnō,” or the remnant which among the obstinate and unbelieving Jews were under his everlasting purpose of grace; in which place, causelessly and without any attempt of proof, the

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

  • Barn.v. 7 (Christos) heautō ton laon ton kainon hetoimazōn (Christ preparing himself the new people); vii. 5, huper hamartiōn mellōn tou laou tou kainou prospherein tēn sarka (Christ about to offer his flesh for the sins of the new people); xiii. 6, blepete .... ton laon touton [new and evidently young] einai prōton (ye see that this people is the first); 2

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • * (Christos) heautō ton laon ton kainon hetoimazōn: [1548] 1

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • Ex. 8: 29 me prosthes eti, Pharao, exapatesai tou me exaposteilai ton laon.

    A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

  • Jer. 38: 33 esomai autois eis Theon, kai autoi esontai moi eis laon.

    A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

  • Ex. 6: 7 kai lempsomai emauto humas laon emoi, 20: 23 ou poiesete humin heautois.

    A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

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