Ermine
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Naturalists tell us that the
ermine
is a little animal which has a fur of purest white, and that when the hunters wish to take it, they make use of this artifice.
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They are Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady With an Ermine," Rembrandt's "Landscape With Good Samaritan" and Raphael's "Portrait of a Youth," which has never been found.
Leonardo da Vinci's exquisitely soulful image of the "Lady with an Ermine."
He had infringed the law of the 19th Ventose, year xi., article I, which forbade all persons not having a diploma to practise medicine; so that, after certain anonymous denunciations, Homais had been summoned to Rouen to see the procurer of the king in his own private room; the magistrate receiving him standing up,
ermine
on shoulder and cap on head.
Most of the higher offices in the colonies were filled by men who had made arms their profession; and it was even no uncommon sight to see a veteran warrior laying aside the sword to assume the
ermine
on the benches of the highest judicial authority.
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