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Page 17
... Pliny the younger to Trajan . But to return to our purpose . There belongs further to the handling of this part , touching the respective duties of voca- tions and professions , a relative or opposite doctrine touching the frauds ...
... Pliny the younger to Trajan . But to return to our purpose . There belongs further to the handling of this part , touching the respective duties of voca- tions and professions , a relative or opposite doctrine touching the frauds ...
Page 28
... Pliny the younger using the license of heathen grandiloquence sets forth the virtue of Trajan , not as an imitation , but rather as a pattern of the divine , where he says , " That men needed not to make any other prayers to the gods ...
... Pliny the younger using the license of heathen grandiloquence sets forth the virtue of Trajan , not as an imitation , but rather as a pattern of the divine , where he says , " That men needed not to make any other prayers to the gods ...
Page 149
... with snow , periodical winds blow from that quarter at the time of the melt- ing of the snows . 1 Herod . fi . 20. , and Pliny , v . 10 . 6. I judge also that from large marshes , which L3 " HISTORIA VENTORUM . " 149.
... with snow , periodical winds blow from that quarter at the time of the melt- ing of the snows . 1 Herod . fi . 20. , and Pliny , v . 10 . 6. I judge also that from large marshes , which L3 " HISTORIA VENTORUM . " 149.
Page 150
... discovered as it is in the tides . Some writers sometimes specify a day , but it is rather by conjecture than constant observation . Pliny , il . 47 , 48 . With reference to the 4th and 5th Transition . Attendant 150 TRANSLATION OF THE.
... discovered as it is in the tides . Some writers sometimes specify a day , but it is rather by conjecture than constant observation . Pliny , il . 47 , 48 . With reference to the 4th and 5th Transition . Attendant 150 TRANSLATION OF THE.
Page 156
... Pliny observes that in large pastures shepherds should take care to drive their flocks to the north side , that they may feed opposite to the south . For if they feed opposite the north , they get foot - rot , scouring , and blear eyes ...
... Pliny observes that in large pastures shepherds should take care to drive their flocks to the north side , that they may feed opposite to the south . For if they feed opposite the north , they get foot - rot , scouring , and blear eyes ...
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