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They then cut off the ends of the beams that projected over the external face of the wall, flush with its face; the appearance whereof being unpleasing, they fixed, on the end of each beam so cut, indented tablets, similar to the triglyphs now in use, and painted them with a waxen composition of a blue colour, so that the ends of the beams in question might not be unpleasant to the eye.
2. ita unaquaeque res et locum et genus et ordinem proprium tuetur. e quibus rebus et a materiatura fabrili in lapideis et marmoreis aedium sacrarum aedificationibus artifices dispositiones eorum scalpturis sunt imitati et eas inventiones persequendas putaverunt. ideo quod antiqui fabri quodam in loco aedificantes, cum ita ab interioribus parietibus ad extremas partes tigna prominentia habuissent conlocata, inter tigna struxerunt supraque coronas et fastigia venustiore specie fabrilibus operibus ornaverunt, tum proiecturas tignorum quantum eminebant ad lineam et perpendiculum parietum praesecuerunt, quae species cum invenusta is visa esset tabellas ita formatas uti nunc fiunt triglyphi contra tignorum praecisiones in fronte fixerunt et eas cera caerulea depinxerunt ut praecisiones tignorum tectae non offenderent visum. ita divisiones tignorum imitati triglyphorum dispositionem et intertignia metoparum habere in doricis operibus coeperunt.
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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
'Liberal' comes from the Latin liberalis , which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why the word had to be erased from our political lexicon.