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... things , but all leading up to , and preparing the way for , the reply of the Dive Bouteille , —all this will be ... thing , how- ever , I would wish to point out . Rabelais con- tinually returns to , and again and again insists upon ...
... things , but all leading up to , and preparing the way for , the reply of the Dive Bouteille , —all this will be ... thing , how- ever , I would wish to point out . Rabelais con- tinually returns to , and again and again insists upon ...
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... things to say and lessons to teach which concern humanity in all ages , and shall be read with profit by generation after generation until the Golden Age comes back again , and then we shall all be educated like unto Gargantua , laden ...
... things to say and lessons to teach which concern humanity in all ages , and shall be read with profit by generation after generation until the Golden Age comes back again , and then we shall all be educated like unto Gargantua , laden ...
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... things , said that he resembled the Sileni . Sileni of old were little boxes , like those we now may see in the shops of apothecaries , painted on the upper part with wanton toyish figures , as harpies , satyrs , A bridled geese ...
... things , said that he resembled the Sileni . Sileni of old were little boxes , like those we now may see in the shops of apothecaries , painted on the upper part with wanton toyish figures , as harpies , satyrs , A bridled geese ...
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... things of great price . Such , he said , was Socrates : for to have eyed his outside , and esteemed him by his exterior appear- ance , you would not have given the beard of an onion for him , so ugly he was in body , and ridic- ulous in ...
... things of great price . Such , he said , was Socrates : for to have eyed his outside , and esteemed him by his exterior appear- ance , you would not have given the beard of an onion for him , so ugly he was in body , and ridic- ulous in ...
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... things , many times , to be the more certain , they caused the very books to be brought to the table , and so well and perfectly did he in his memory retain the things above said , that in that time there was not a physician that knew ...
... things , many times , to be the more certain , they caused the very books to be brought to the table , and so well and perfectly did he in his memory retain the things above said , that in that time there was not a physician that knew ...
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Page 21 - ... they had done their minds. All their play was but in liberty, for they left off when they pleased, and that was commonly when they did sweat over all their body, or were otherwise weary. Then were they very well wiped and rubbed, shifted their shirts, and walking soberly, went to see if dinner was ready.
Page 69 - ... the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us. By this liberty they entered into a very laudable emulation, to do all of them what they saw did please one. If any of the gallants or ladies should say, Let us drink, they would all drink. If any one of them said, Let us play, they all played.
Page 59 - ... said Gargantua, the greatest loss of time that I know is to count the hours. What good comes of it? Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion.
Page 29 - They went likewise to see the drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance ; how the lapidaries did work, as also the goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones.