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... singing , gymnastics , work for the hands , know- ledge of manufactures and industries , and intel- ligent study of GOD's glorious works on the earth and in the heavens , and these not singly ( which makes a boy unpractical and ...
... singing , gymnastics , work for the hands , know- ledge of manufactures and industries , and intel- ligent study of GOD's glorious works on the earth and in the heavens , and these not singly ( which makes a boy unpractical and ...
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... sing , let us drink . An anthem , let us strike up . Do you wet yourselves to dry , or do you dry to wet you ? Pish ! I understand not the theoric , but I help myself somewhat by the practice . Enough ! I wet , I humect , I drink , and ...
... sing , let us drink . An anthem , let us strike up . Do you wet yourselves to dry , or do you dry to wet you ? Pish ! I understand not the theoric , but I help myself somewhat by the practice . Enough ! I wet , I humect , I drink , and ...
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... singing musically , in four or five parts , or upon a set theme , as it best pleased them . In matter of musical in- struments , he learned to play the lute , the spinet , the harp , the German flute , the flute with nine holes , the ...
... singing musically , in four or five parts , or upon a set theme , as it best pleased them . In matter of musical in- struments , he learned to play the lute , the spinet , the harp , the German flute , the flute with nine holes , the ...
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... sing musi- cally , and play upon harmonious instruments , or at those pretty sports made with cards , dice , or cups , -thus made merry till it was time to go to bed ; and sometimes they would go make visits unto learned men , or to ...
... sing musi- cally , and play upon harmonious instruments , or at those pretty sports made with cards , dice , or cups , -thus made merry till it was time to go to bed ; and sometimes they would go make visits unto learned men , or to ...
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... singing , dancing , tum- bling in some fair meadow , unnestling of sparrows , taking of quails , and fishing for frogs and crayfish . But although that day was passed without books or lecture , yet was it not spent without profit ; for ...
... singing , dancing , tum- bling in some fair meadow , unnestling of sparrows , taking of quails , and fishing for frogs and crayfish . But although that day was passed without books or lecture , yet was it not spent without profit ; for ...
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ABBEY OF THELEMA according Æneid Æsop ancient answered Panurge asked Bacbuc bagpipe Basché better birds Bottle bous breviary Bridoye Buzançay called Carpalim catchpole Chinon Chitterlings Cicero colours cried Panurge decretals devils diable dice Dieu divine doth dreams drink Edituus Epistemon Eudemon fair fast father fear fire fool Friar John Furred Cats Gargantua gentlemen GEORGE ELIOT give gold Grippeminaud hand hath head heart heaven herb holy Homenas honest honour hypocras island joyous Julius Cæsar Jupiter king labour ladies Lantern lardons let us go Lord marry master monk never noble oracle Oudart Panta Pantagruel Pantagruelion philosopher Phrygia physician Picrochole Plato Ponocrates Pope pray quoth Panurge Rabelais Rabelais Club replied seen ships sing soul tell thee things thither thou told tongue took unto virtue whereof wife wine words
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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.