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... amusing stories together made him , as we have said , very popular with the reading public of what we call the dark ages . He was accordingly , as might have been expected , one of the first of the ancient authors put to press after the ...
... amusing stories together made him , as we have said , very popular with the reading public of what we call the dark ages . He was accordingly , as might have been expected , one of the first of the ancient authors put to press after the ...
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... amusing to read than easy to be believed ; and upon the whole , like Gellius and Macrobius , and some of the other compilers we have already noticed , his work is more valued for the quotations in which it abounds from older writers now ...
... amusing to read than easy to be believed ; and upon the whole , like Gellius and Macrobius , and some of the other compilers we have already noticed , his work is more valued for the quotations in which it abounds from older writers now ...
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... amusing dissertation , has given a complete analysis of this curious compilation : - " This work is compiled from the obsolete Latin chroni- cles of the later Roman , or rather German story , height- ened by romantic inventions from ...
... amusing dissertation , has given a complete analysis of this curious compilation : - " This work is compiled from the obsolete Latin chroni- cles of the later Roman , or rather German story , height- ened by romantic inventions from ...
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... amusing . We may here also warn off in like manner all who are in quest only of the latter quality , from the French critic Villoison's two quarto volumes of ' Anecdota Græca , ' published at Venice in 1781. Vil- loison's Anecdotes are ...
... amusing . We may here also warn off in like manner all who are in quest only of the latter quality , from the French critic Villoison's two quarto volumes of ' Anecdota Græca , ' published at Venice in 1781. Vil- loison's Anecdotes are ...
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... amusing : Vander - Doez was turned into Douza , Moltzer into Mycillus , Schuler into Sabinus , Gastebled , or Outdebled , into Vatablus , and so on , with hundreds of others . The confusion which arose from the Latinization of names ...
... amusing : Vander - Doez was turned into Douza , Moltzer into Mycillus , Schuler into Sabinus , Gastebled , or Outdebled , into Vatablus , and so on , with hundreds of others . The confusion which arose from the Latinization of names ...
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