It was probably at this point that Mithridates, aware of his numerous and powerful enemies, earned his nomination as the world’s first experimental toxicologist. He started taking small doses of poison on a regular basis; both to accustom
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“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. Churchill”
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
“If an English writer cannot say what he has to say in English, and in simple English, depend upon it, it is probably not worth saying”
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
“And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for p all the churches”
― Holy Bible: English Standard Version
― Holy Bible: English Standard Version
“Flavius Marcellinus, tribune and notary, was assigned this position when he presided at the Conference of Carthage in 411, where Caecilianist and Donatist bishops debated which party represented the true church in Africa. He ruled against the Donatists and enforced the legislation which had been held in abeyance during the attempt at reconciliation. Dulcitius, a tribune, was sent by Honorius and Arcadius to Africa in about 420 as an executor, charged with forcing the Donatists to turn over the property that had been remanded to the Caecilianists”
― Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
― Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
“a new Party will arise like perhaps the Republican Party of the United States of America – rich, materialist, and secular – whose opinions will turn on tariffs, and who will cause the lobbies to be crowded with the touts of protected industries.”
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
― Churchill: Walking with Destiny
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