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... called a name . But , very well as all this may be in its way , it would make a weary_world if we had nothing else . Therefore , as Sancho Panza , in his honest natural horror at the idea of constant move- ment and exertion , invoked ...
... called a name . But , very well as all this may be in its way , it would make a weary_world if we had nothing else . Therefore , as Sancho Panza , in his honest natural horror at the idea of constant move- ment and exertion , invoked ...
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... called , exclusive of a pretty long appendix . One of the most curious things in this volume is a list which it contains of previous works of the same descrip- tion , or , as it is expressed , of authors who have profess- edly written ...
... called , exclusive of a pretty long appendix . One of the most curious things in this volume is a list which it contains of previous works of the same descrip- tion , or , as it is expressed , of authors who have profess- edly written ...
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... called , has been rarely matched . We should in vain at- tempt to imitate in humble modern English the solemn and imposing pomp of its long procession of rumbling Latin epithets Liber rarus , carus , ex Sacræ Scripturæ et venerandæ ...
... called , has been rarely matched . We should in vain at- tempt to imitate in humble modern English the solemn and imposing pomp of its long procession of rumbling Latin epithets Liber rarus , carus , ex Sacræ Scripturæ et venerandæ ...
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... called nature , but also of the arts and of human life . The twenty books of the ' Noctes Atticæ , ' or Attic Nights , of Aulus Gellius , who probably flourished in the second century of our era , although made up , in the greater part ...
... called nature , but also of the arts and of human life . The twenty books of the ' Noctes Atticæ , ' or Attic Nights , of Aulus Gellius , who probably flourished in the second century of our era , although made up , in the greater part ...
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... called by some the plunderer , by others the ape , of Gellius , from whom he has undoubtedly pilfered libe rally , as he has also done from other writers ; though he has given us much that is curious and valuable of his own likewise ...
... called by some the plunderer , by others the ape , of Gellius , from whom he has undoubtedly pilfered libe rally , as he has also done from other writers ; though he has given us much that is curious and valuable of his own likewise ...
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