Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel, المجلد 3

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A. H. Bullen, 1904
 

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الصفحة 155 - For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ : whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
الصفحة 55 - They were all rigg'd with wolves, calves, and rams' skins, lac'd and trim'd with sheeps' heads, bulls' feathers and large kitchen tenter-hooks, girt with broad leathern girdles, whereat hang'd dangling huge cow-bells and horse-bells, which made a horrid din. Some held in their claws black sticks full of squibs and crackers; others had long lighted pieces of wood, upon which at the corner of every street they flung whole handfuls of rosin-dust, that made a terrible fire and smoak. "Having thus led...
الصفحة 12 - A man fearing and loving God, who found favour in the sight of all flesh, well-beloved both of God and man; whose memorial is blessed. God made him like to the glorious saints, and magnified him so, that his enemies stood in fear of him; and for him made wonders; made him glorious in the sight of kings, gave him a commandment for his people, and by him showed his light: he sanctified him in his faithfulness, and meekness, and chose him out of all men. By him he made us to hear his voice, and caused...
الصفحة 21 - Honest fellow, said Mercury, I leave it thee ; take it ; and because thou hast wished and chosen moderately in point of hatchet, by Jupiter's command I give thee these two others ; thou hast now wherewith to make thyself rich : be honest.
الصفحة 15 - ... helve, as some spirits of contradiction say by way of scandalous blunder, but the helve after the hatchet, as you all properly have it. Presently two great miracles were seen: up springs the hatchet from the bottom of the water, and fixes itself to its old acquaintance the helve. Now had he wished to coach it to heaven in a fiery chariot like...
الصفحة 15 - Presently two great miracles were seen : up springs the hatchet from the bottom of the water, and fixes itself to its old acquaintance the helve. Now had he wished to coach it to heaven in a fiery chariot like Elias...
الصفحة 55 - They were all rigged with wolves', calves', and rams' skins, laced and trimmed with sheep's heads, bull's feathers, and large kitchen tenterhooks, girt with broad leathern girdles, whereat hanged dangling huge cow-bells and horse-bells, which made a horrid din. Some held in their claws black sticks full of squibs and crackers; others had long lighted pieces of wood, upon which, at the corner of every street, they flung whole handfuls of rosin-dust, that made a terrible fire and smoke.
الصفحة 22 - ... stables, meadows, orchards, fields, vineyards, woods, arable lands, pastures, ponds, mills, gardens, nurseries, oxen, cows, sheep, goats, swine, hogs, asses, horses, hens, cocks, capons, chickens, geese, ganders, ducks, drakes, and a world of all other necessaries, and in a short time became the richest man in the country, nay, even richer than that limping scrape-good Maulevrier.
الصفحة 23 - Every he still was for that of gold, giving thanks in abundance to the great giver, Jupiter ; but in the very nick of time that they bowed and stooped to take it from the ground, whip, in a trice, Mercury lopped off their heads, as Jupiter had commanded ; and of heads thus cut off the number was just equal to that of the lost hatchets.
الصفحة 271 - ... em ; so that those men of happy memories grew learned in a trice, and would most fluently talk with you of a world of prodigious things, the hundredth part of which would take up a man's whole life to be fully known.

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