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  • Ecause it hath pleased God to blesse me with many children, and so caused me to observe many things falling out to mothers, and to their children; I thought good to open my minde concerning a speciall matter belonging to all childe-bearing women, seriously to consider of: and to manifest my minde the better, even to write of this matter, so farre as God shall please to direct me; in summe, the matter I meane, Is the duty of nursing due by mothers to their owne children.

    The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie 1622

  • To knowe this, I shulde diuide the hole summe, that is

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • I fynde 80, which I shuld subtract [* 119b] from the other su {m} me, then seyng there are but only 70 I must take it out of some hygher summe, which is here only 5000, therfore I take vp 5000, and seyng that it is to moch by 4920, I sette downe so many in the seconde roume, whiche with the 70 beynge there all redy do make 4990, &  then the summes doth stande thus.

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • Believe me America, Hillary Clinton had said tax the gas company will pay for the gas tax this summe.

    Showdown in Dededo 2008

  • On April 11, 1547, the Privy Council deputed Sir Edward Peckham, cofferer (treasurer) of King Edward's household, to distribute to each princess "the summe of oone cii, to be accompted as parcell of her Graces pencion to her allotted by the testament of our late Souveraine Lord."

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • William Camden, Elizabeth's first biographer claimed, early in the seventeenth century, that Elizabeth had indeed received an offer "a certaine summe of money and great possessions in Land" from Northumberland in return for her assurance that she not oppose the succession of Jane Grey. 38 Camden was close to Elizabeth's chief minister, William Cecil who himself was prominent in the Edwardian government in the early 1550s.

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • WV: summe - heard over and over in bakeries everywhere. "you don't like your cake. so summe."

    Blame Decopac 2009

  • Ad te Rex summe, omnium Redemptor, oculos nostros sublevamus flentes:

    Archive 2009-02-01 bls 2009

  • And conservatives in Congress -- who pretended to support an "All of the Above" energy policy all summe ...

    Bill Scher: Conservatives Stay Under The Covers With Big Oil 2008

  • And conservatives in Congress -- who pretended to support an "All of the Above" energy policy all summe ...

    Bill Scher: Conservatives Stay Under The Covers With Big Oil 2008

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