The Book of Table-talk, Volumes 1-2 |
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... curious and interesting facts in all the departments of natural knowledge ; the wonders of sci- ence and of art ; all the turnings and windings of human opinion ; sagacious maxims for the conduct of life ; even ingenious thoughts in ...
... curious and interesting facts in all the departments of natural knowledge ; the wonders of sci- ence and of art ; all the turnings and windings of human opinion ; sagacious maxims for the conduct of life ; even ingenious thoughts in ...
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... 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 books of examples . The catalogue extends to about five columns ...
... 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 books of examples . The catalogue extends to about five columns ...
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... curious work is really a sort of book of table - talk , though it affects a somewhat more scientific arrangement than that title demands . Perhaps he him- self would have preferred that it should be considered an encyclopædia ( that is ...
... curious work is really a sort of book of table - talk , though it affects a somewhat more scientific arrangement than that title demands . Perhaps he him- self would have preferred that it should be considered an encyclopædia ( that is ...
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... curious coincidence also , it may be remarked , between this title inscribed upon his lucubra- tions by the old Roman critic , and that of our delightful Oriental acquaintance , the ' Thousand and One Nights . ' The oldest imitation ...
... curious coincidence also , it may be remarked , between this title inscribed upon his lucubra- tions by the old Roman critic , and that of our delightful Oriental acquaintance , the ' Thousand and One Nights . ' The oldest imitation ...
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... curious facts , which are not to be found elsewhere . To his books of moral examples two eclogues of facts and observations in physics are sub- joined . The whole work is often referred to under the various names of Stobæus's ...
... curious facts , which are not to be found elsewhere . To his books of moral examples two eclogues of facts and observations in physics are sub- joined . The whole work is often referred to under the various names of Stobæus's ...
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