- The
phrase Jesting Pilate can be: a
phrase coined by
Francis Bacon in the
opening sentence of his
essay Of
Truth (read at Wikisource) a name for the Biblical...
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their praise with
genuine reservations about the "irreverence and
profane jesting", as the New
Haven Daily Palladium for
November 17
phrased it. Many reviewers...
- A joke is a
display of
humour in
which words are used
within a
specific and well-defined
narrative structure to make
people laugh and is
usually not meant...
- The All-Joking, All-Drunken
Synod of
Fools and
Jesters (1692–1725) was a club
founded by
Peter I of Russia. The
group included many of Peter's closest...
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After Parliament had been dissolved,
Cromwell wrote a
letter to a friend,
jesting about the session's lack of productivity: I
amongst other have indured...
- A
political cartoon from 1787
jesting about the
notion of
taxation affecting prostitutes...
- of Argentocoxus, a Caledonian, to
Julia Augusta. When the
empress was
jesting with her,
after the treaty,
about the free
intercourse of her **** with...
- award, stating: "What
McGowan failed to take into
consideration was the
jesting manner in
which Jenner spoke." Tam said: [Jenner] also
immediately followed...
- The
mythographer Apollodorus says that Iambe's
jesting was the
reason for the
practice of
ritual jesting at the Thesmophoria, a
festival celebrated in...
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Manohla (April 12, 2012). "Wry and
Subtle Jesting? Not Here,
Knucklehead (Published 2012)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
