"Xxiii" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Viris Illustribus, Chap. 3. Migne, Vol. XXIII. 613. Porro ipsum Hebraicum habetur usque hodie in Caesariensi bibliotheca quam ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... they both went to Paris every day, they met and made acquaintance on the road—an acquaintance which soon ripened into friendship. Dupre first engraved Franklin's seal with the motto, "In simplici salus," and afterward his portrait. This (p. xxiii) portrait presents an alto-rilievo which is well adapted for medals only; it is conceived in the spirit of the French school, which has always attached great importance to the truthful rendering of flesh. The artist has indicated ...
— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat
... and Ugarit, the centres of disaffection, were captured and punished, and among the prisoners from Ugarit were 640 "Canaanite" merchants with their slaves. The name of Canaanite had thus already acquired that secondary meaning of "merchant" which we find in the Old Testament (Is. xxiii. 8; Ezek. xvii. 4). It is a significant proof of the commercial activity and trading establishments of the Canaanite race throughout the civilized world. Even a cuneiform tablet from Kappadokia, which is probably of the same ...
— Patriarchal Palestine • Archibald Henry Sayce
... there be THAT— making one be in the government?' CHAP. XXII. The Master said, 'I do not know how a man without truthfulness is to get on. How can a large carriage be made to go without the cross-bar for yoking the oxen to, or a small carriage without the arrangement for yoking the horses?' CHAP. XXIII. 1. Tsze-chang asked whether the affairs of ten ages after could be known. 2. Confucius said, 'The Yin dynasty followed the regulations of the Hsia: wherein it took from or added to them may be known. The Chau dynasty has followed the regulations ...
— The Chinese Classics--Volume 1: Confucian Analects • James Legge
... Strachan; "a large flat-bottomed vessel is prepared, covered with planks like a floor; so that this floor is almost of a height with the key. Then the sides of the key and the vessel are adorned with green branches, so that the elephant sees no water till he is in the ship."—Phil. Trans., vol. xxiii. No. ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent
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