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... Latin Distichs • 44. How tall was Adam ? • •• 45. How to square the Circle 46. Turkish Proverbs . · 190 • • · 198 · 200 206 206 207 208 · 211 211 47. A Devil at the Top of St. Paul's . 218 48. The Duke de Laval 49. Bishops and their ...
... Latin Distichs • 44. How tall was Adam ? • •• 45. How to square the Circle 46. Turkish Proverbs . · 190 • • · 198 · 200 206 206 207 208 · 211 211 47. A Devil at the Top of St. Paul's . 218 48. The Duke de Laval 49. Bishops and their ...
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... Latin epithets Liber rarus , carus , ex Sacræ Scripturæ et venerandæ Antiquitatis arcanis exaratus , variisque Allegoriis , Tropologiis , et Allusionibus , Anagoricis , Hierographicis , Symbolicis , Iconographicis , et Mytho- logicis ...
... Latin epithets Liber rarus , carus , ex Sacræ Scripturæ et venerandæ Antiquitatis arcanis exaratus , variisque Allegoriis , Tropologiis , et Allusionibus , Anagoricis , Hierographicis , Symbolicis , Iconographicis , et Mytho- logicis ...
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... Latin , that fell into his hands . He modestly claims no further merit as belonging to the work , or as distin- guishing it from other similar compilations , than that its contents are of a more select character than those of many ...
... Latin , that fell into his hands . He modestly claims no further merit as belonging to the work , or as distin- guishing it from other similar compilations , than that its contents are of a more select character than those of many ...
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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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... Latin collections of the same kind also sprang up soon after this time for the use of the Western world . One of the most famous of these was the ' Specu- lum Historiale , ' or Mirror of History , of Vincent of Beauvais , or , as his ...
... Latin collections of the same kind also sprang up soon after this time for the use of the Western world . One of the most famous of these was the ' Specu- lum Historiale , ' or Mirror of History , of Vincent of Beauvais , or , as his ...
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