Crossword-Solution: ACADEMIE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

WAS THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON A GAMESTER? A few years after the battle of Waterloo there appeared a French work entitled '_L'Academie des Jeux_, par Philidor,' which was soon translated into English, and here published under the title of 'Rouge et Noir; or, the Academies.' It was a denunciation of gambling in all its varieties, and was, no doubt, well-intentioned.

Behold! when but a youth, thou fierce didst whip Upright the crooked age, and gilt vice strip; A senator praetext, that knew'st to sway The fasces, yet under the ferula; Rank'd with the sage, ere blossome did thy chin, Sleeked without, and hair all ore within, Who in the school could'st argue as in schools: Thy lessons were ev'n academie rules.

See an elegant Dissertation of the Abbe Mossieu on the Oaths of the Ancients, in the Mem de l’Academie des Inscriptions, tom.

Mai and his followers to trace the imperfectly erased characters of the ancient writers on these Palimpsests, Gibbon at this period of his labors would have hailed with delight the recovery of the Institutes of Gaius, and the fragments of the Theodosian Code, published by M Keyron of Turin.—M.] 84 (return) [ This execrable practice prevailed from the viiith, and more especially from the xiith, century, when it became almost universal (Montfaucon, in the Memoires de l’Academie, tom.

Rouhuot sent a description and drawing of some monstrous nails to the Academie des Sciences de Paris.