catena

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A small catena patrum has been given respecting Burnet, as a historian, in No. 3. pp.

From Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 by Various

Text and catena on all St. Paul's Epistles.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Catholic writers inherited the traditions and the temper of their forefathers, and believed the catena of their own historians.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.

One of the persons present having changed places, Eusapia utters complaints: "La catena! la catena!"

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

When I was in Venice in 1818, at which time the genuine Venetian chain was still being made, a goldsmith told me that those who made the catena fina turned blind at thirty.

From Essays of Schopenhauer by Schopenhauer, Arthur