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... common- place Book ( ' Loci Communes Sententiarum ' ) , & c . The work might , without much impropriety , be called Sto- bæus's Book of Table - talk . Another celebrated ancient miscellany , of a somewhat similar description , though ...
... common- place Book ( ' Loci Communes Sententiarum ' ) , & c . The work might , without much impropriety , be called Sto- bæus's Book of Table - talk . Another celebrated ancient miscellany , of a somewhat similar description , though ...
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... common in the titles of works of this class , was scarcely used by the ancients in the sense in which we now em- ploy it . It is a Greek word , and signifies properly any- thing not yet given forth . Among other things , the Greeks ...
... common in the titles of works of this class , was scarcely used by the ancients in the sense in which we now em- ploy it . It is a Greek word , and signifies properly any- thing not yet given forth . Among other things , the Greeks ...
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... common and natural transference or extension of meaning ) that it was one which had not remained unnoticed from accident , but which there had been some reason for keeping secret . Anecdotes usually meant matters of some scandal ; such ...
... common and natural transference or extension of meaning ) that it was one which had not remained unnoticed from accident , but which there had been some reason for keeping secret . Anecdotes usually meant matters of some scandal ; such ...
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... common parlance this exclusive appli- cation to secret or unpublished history . Yet Johnson in his Dictionary , first published in 1755 , still defines the word as properly signifying " something yet unpublished ; secret history ...
... common parlance this exclusive appli- cation to secret or unpublished history . Yet Johnson in his Dictionary , first published in 1755 , still defines the word as properly signifying " something yet unpublished ; secret history ...
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... common - place books - as in a sale of articles of virtù , advertised as having belonged to a distinguished collector , the auctioneer will often take the opportunity of intermixing a considerable alloy of less genuine wares , and ...
... common - place books - as in a sale of articles of virtù , advertised as having belonged to a distinguished collector , the auctioneer will often take the opportunity of intermixing a considerable alloy of less genuine wares , and ...
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