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21 January 2015, around 10.28.

‘Menschenhaupt’, Aegidius Albertinus, Hirnschleiffer.

Montaigne 1.5

13 February 2015, around 10.11.

Aegidius Albertinus, Hirnschleiffer (1645), p. 94 As to ourselves, who, not being so overscrupulous, give the honour of the war to him who has the profit of it, and who say, with Lysander, that ‘when the lion’s skin is too short, we must eke it out with a bit from that of the fox’, the […]

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