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Stade  n.  A stadium.






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"Stade" Quotes from Famous Books



... inserted in the wrong place by some editor or copyist, or that the author was confused in his dates. The "stadium" is the famous foot-race at Olympia, 606 3/4 English feet in length, run on a course also called the "Stadion," which was exactly a stade long. ...
— Hellenica • Xenophon

... those of the Mercers until 1526. On the Continent their principal office, hall, or gathering place, the residence of their Governor and location of the "Court,", or central government of the company, was at different times at Antwerp, Bruges, Calais, Hamburg, Stade, Groningen and Middleburg; for the longest time probably at the first of these places. The larger part of the foreign trade of England during the fifteenth and most of the sixteenth century was ...
— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney

... taken no English with him but Lord Albemarle, Lord Frederick Cavendish,(780) Lord George Lennox,(781) Colonel Keppel, Mr. West, and Colonel Carlton, all his own servants, was well persuaded to go by Stade; there were French parties laid to intercept him on the other road. It might have saved him an unpleasant campaign. We have no favourable events, but that Russia, who had neither men, money, nor magazines, is much softened, and halts her troops. The Duke of Grafton(782) still ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... "Good men are always happy and bad men always miserable". "All goods are equal". "No one is wiser or happier than another". But may not one man we ask be more nearly wise or more nearly happy than another? "That may be", the Stoics would reply, "but the man who is only one stade from Canopus is as much not in Canopus as the man who is a hundred stades off; and the eight day old puppy is still as blind as on the day of its birth; nor can a man who is near the surface of the sea breathe any more than if he were ...
— A Little Book of Stoicism • St George Stock

... Emperor of the French, and effect upon the alli-ance with England..... War between France and Austria, and its influence upon English public opinion and policy..... Naples..... Prussia: closer alli-ance with England..... Spain: war with Morocco; English protests..... Hanover: the Stade dues..... United States of America..... Relations with the South American States..... Colonies: India, Borneo, Australia, New Zealand, African Settlements, British Colombia, Jamaica..... Ireland..... Home: ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan



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