He was educated at Henry’s expense, received a royal pension of 500 crowns a year, and was apparently destined for the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ offices in the English Church. [7 Letters; H _ _ _ _ _ T]

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The _ _ _ _ _ bull that canonized him (1622) credited him with the "gift of tongues" ; the ability to speak any language at need; [5 Letters; P _ _ _ L]

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Hildebrand had grasped higher than his reach, but he had for a decade raised the papacy to the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ height and power that it had yet known. [8 Letters; G _ _ _ _ _ _ T]

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As the fertility of the earth is limited, and there is no bound to the sexual mania of men, the multiplication of mouths ; through _ _ _ _ _ _ _ marriage, reckless reproduction, [7 Letters; E _ _ _ _ _ R]

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In one field he carried out a long series of experiments: his Optica, a study of refraction, has been acclaimed as "the most _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ experimental research of antiquity. [10 Letters; R _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E]

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The Russian nobles claimed and used all _ _ _ _ _ _ rights, and controlled almost every element in the life of their serfs. [6 Letters; F _ _ _ _ L]

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When Ferdinand II died (1516) the _ _ _ _ _ _ King planned again the conquest of Naples, perhaps as a glorious means of checking the excess population of France. [6 Letters; F _ _ _ _ H]

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Like almost everything else in the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ life of Egypt, it began with the priests, and dripped with evidences of its magical origins. [8 Letters; C _ _ _ _ _ _ L]

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He paid Handel a thousand pounds for two _ _ _ operas; one of them, Serse (April 15, 1738) contained the famous "Largo," "Ombra mai fù." [3 Letters; N _ _]

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Though _ _ _ _ enough to be idle, he gave himself with restless devotion to a career of philosophical writing and practical reform. [4 Letters; R _ _ _]

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Generally the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ influence overcame the German in Vienna; Italy conquered Austria with arias, as Austria conquered North Italy with arms. [7 Letters; I _ _ _ _ _ N]

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, the common enemy of the _ _ _ _ _ race," and called upon all kings, for their own sake, to [5 Letters; H _ _ _ N]

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Disorder in the administration, in the streets, in the official and the public mind had come so _ _ _ _ _ to political disintegration that the best that Necker could do was to maintain stability until the States-General convened. [5 Letters; C _ _ _ E]

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The artist in Hadrian was ever competing with the governor; he rebuilt the Pantheon while reorganizing _ _ _ _ _ law. [5 Letters; R _ _ _ N]

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There was the old convent of the Augustinian canons at Dürnstein, rebuilt7 in sumptuous baroque by Josef Munggenast; note that its _ _ _ _ _ glories, the main portal and the west tower, [5 Letters; C _ _ _ F]

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Caesar had hardly entered upon his consulate (59) when he proposed to the Senate the measures asked for by Pompey: a distribution of land to 20, of the _ _ _ _ _ _ citizens, [6 Letters; P _ _ _ _ R]

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much as the monks preserved some measure of ancient culture, and some degree of _ _ _ _ _ _ order, during the Dark Ages that followed the fall of Rome. [6 Letters; S _ _ _ _ L]

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Thereafter Judaic Christianity waned in number and power, and yielded the new religion to be transformed by the _ _ _ _ _ mind. [5 Letters; G _ _ _ K]

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Therefore the prime instrument of government is _ _ _ _ example: the ruler must be an eminence of model behavior, from which, by prestige imitation, right conduct will pour down upon his people. [4 Letters; G _ _ _]

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