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... odd Preachers 52. The Preacher of Climaxes 53. Heraldic Anomalies 54. A Charm 55. Swearing of French Postilions in 1608 • 221 · 222 222 · 224 . 229 • • 230 • • 240 • 240 BOOK OF TABLE - TALK . AN INTRODUCTORY TALK UPON iv CONTENTS .
... odd Preachers 52. The Preacher of Climaxes 53. Heraldic Anomalies 54. A Charm 55. Swearing of French Postilions in 1608 • 221 · 222 222 · 224 . 229 • • 230 • • 240 • 240 BOOK OF TABLE - TALK . AN INTRODUCTORY TALK UPON iv CONTENTS .
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... French translations of Athenæus , neither of which , how- ever , enjoys much reputation . One , published in a quarto volume in 1680 , is by the old doer of all work in that line , Michel de Marolles ; on the title - page of a copy of ...
... French translations of Athenæus , neither of which , how- ever , enjoys much reputation . One , published in a quarto volume in 1680 , is by the old doer of all work in that line , Michel de Marolles ; on the title - page of a copy of ...
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... , ' however , has been made the subject of a commentary much more ponderous than itself by the great French scholar , Saumaise ( in Latin , Salmasius ) , whose edition of the work appeared in two volumes , 16 AN INTRODUCTORY TALK.
... , ' however , has been made the subject of a commentary much more ponderous than itself by the great French scholar , Saumaise ( in Latin , Salmasius ) , whose edition of the work appeared in two volumes , 16 AN INTRODUCTORY TALK.
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... French Dominican friar , who flourished in the thirteenth century ; and he appears to have compiled his collection of true histories principally for the use of the preachers of that age , who , he tells us , for want of better stories ...
... French Dominican friar , who flourished in the thirteenth century ; and he appears to have compiled his collection of true histories principally for the use of the preachers of that age , who , he tells us , for want of better stories ...
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... French critic Villoison's two quarto volumes of ' Anecdota Græca , ' published at Venice in 1781. Vil- loison's Anecdotes are merely fragments of old Greek scholiasts and grammarians , extracted from manuscripts in the Royal Library of ...
... French critic Villoison's two quarto volumes of ' Anecdota Græca , ' published at Venice in 1781. Vil- loison's Anecdotes are merely fragments of old Greek scholiasts and grammarians , extracted from manuscripts in the Royal Library of ...
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