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... crown the wine , I pray thee . A redbrim , a cardinal ! Natura abhorret vacuum . Would you say that a fly could drink in this ? This is after the fashion of Brittany . Neat , neat , for this dram . THE CHILDHOOD OF GARGANTUA . Gargantua ...
... crown the wine , I pray thee . A redbrim , a cardinal ! Natura abhorret vacuum . Would you say that a fly could drink in this ? This is after the fashion of Brittany . Neat , neat , for this dram . THE CHILDHOOD OF GARGANTUA . Gargantua ...
Page 53
... crowns , and his eldest sons detained as hostages till that sum had been paid , they made themselves perpetual tributaries , and obliged to give us every year two millions of gold at four - and- twenty carats fine . The first year we ...
... crowns , and his eldest sons detained as hostages till that sum had been paid , they made themselves perpetual tributaries , and obliged to give us every year two millions of gold at four - and- twenty carats fine . The first year we ...
Page 57
... crowns ready money . And further , he gave to each of them for ever and in perpetuity , unless they should die without heirs , such castles and neighbouring lands of his as were most commo- dious for them . To Ponocrates he gave La ...
... crowns ready money . And further , he gave to each of them for ever and in perpetuity , unless they should die without heirs , such castles and neighbouring lands of his as were most commo- dious for them . To Ponocrates he gave La ...
Page 60
... hundred thousand , eight hundred and one - and - thirty of those long - woolled rams ; and for every year until the whole work was completed he allotted threescore nine thousand gold crowns , and as 60 READINGS FROM RABELAIS .
... hundred thousand , eight hundred and one - and - thirty of those long - woolled rams ; and for every year until the whole work was completed he allotted threescore nine thousand gold crowns , and as 60 READINGS FROM RABELAIS .
Page 61
... crowns , and as many of the seven stars , to be charged all upon the receipt of the river Dive . For the foundation and maintenance thereof he settled in perpetuity three - and - twenty hundred , threescore and nine thousand , five ...
... crowns , and as many of the seven stars , to be charged all upon the receipt of the river Dive . For the foundation and maintenance thereof he settled in perpetuity three - and - twenty hundred , threescore and nine thousand , five ...
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Page 21 - ... they had done their minds. All their play was but in liberty, for they left off when they pleased, and that was commonly when they did sweat over all their body, or were otherwise weary. Then were they very well wiped and rubbed, shifted their shirts, and walking soberly, went to see if dinner was ready.
Page 69 - ... the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us. By this liberty they entered into a very laudable emulation, to do all of them what they saw did please one. If any of the gallants or ladies should say, Let us drink, they would all drink. If any one of them said, Let us play, they all played.
Page 59 - ... said Gargantua, the greatest loss of time that I know is to count the hours. What good comes of it? Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion.
Page 29 - They went likewise to see the drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance ; how the lapidaries did work, as also the goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones.