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... Parisian restaurateur . They have been prepared to suit the palate and digestion of every several species of literary gourmands . A great many of them have been got up more especially for the use of the religious public . Of these , one ...
... Parisian restaurateur . They have been prepared to suit the palate and digestion of every several species of literary gourmands . A great many of them have been got up more especially for the use of the religious public . Of these , one ...
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... Paris , 1785-91 , was Lefebre de Ville- brune , who was more famous for the quantity than the quality of his scholarship . We understand that a series of translations from Athenæus appeared some years ago in a London periodical ...
... Paris , 1785-91 , was Lefebre de Ville- brune , who was more famous for the quantity than the quality of his scholarship . We understand that a series of translations from Athenæus appeared some years ago in a London periodical ...
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... Paris , in 1629. The term Polyhistor , by the bye , which may be translated the Manifold Historian , has been as- sumed as the title of one of the ablest and most useful among the critical compendiums of modern times - the comprehensive ...
... Paris , in 1629. The term Polyhistor , by the bye , which may be translated the Manifold Historian , has been as- sumed as the title of one of the ablest and most useful among the critical compendiums of modern times - the comprehensive ...
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... Paris , afterwards translated by Caxton under the title of the COURT OF SAPYENCE , which abounds with a multitude of historical examples , parables , and apologues , and which the writer wisely supposes to be much more likely to ...
... Paris , afterwards translated by Caxton under the title of the COURT OF SAPYENCE , which abounds with a multitude of historical examples , parables , and apologues , and which the writer wisely supposes to be much more likely to ...
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... Paris , in the year 1362 ; but this conclusion has since been controverted by Mr. Douce in his Illustrations of Shakspere , ' where it is contended that the author must have been a German . Berchorius is the author of three other works ...
... Paris , in the year 1362 ; but this conclusion has since been controverted by Mr. Douce in his Illustrations of Shakspere , ' where it is contended that the author must have been a German . Berchorius is the author of three other works ...
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