catena

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Qui benignus crimina ignoscis, pater,   Facilisque semper confitenti ades reo, Aurem faventem precibus O! praebe meis;   Scelerum catena me laborantem grave Aeterna tandem liberet clementia,   Ut summa laus sit, summa Christo gloria.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

A small catena patrum has been given respecting Burnet, as a historian, in No. 3. pp.

From Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 by Various

It would be easy to compile a catena of bellicose maxims from our literature, reaching down to the end of the 19th century.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph

Catholic writers inherited the traditions and the temper of their forefathers, and believed the catena of their own historians.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.

He says his evidence is cumulative; not a catena, the strength of which is in its weakest part, but distinct and independent lines, each of which corroborates the other.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene