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... Death of Credit 42. Botanical Satire 43. Latin Distichs • 44. How tall was Adam ? • •• 45. How to square the Circle 46. Turkish Proverbs . · 190 • • · 198 · 200 206 206 207 208 · 211 211 47. A Devil at the Top of St. Paul's . 218 48 ...
... Death of Credit 42. Botanical Satire 43. Latin Distichs • 44. How tall was Adam ? • •• 45. How to square the Circle 46. Turkish Proverbs . · 190 • • · 198 · 200 206 206 207 208 · 211 211 47. A Devil at the Top of St. Paul's . 218 48 ...
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... death . The date of the second edition , now before us , is Frankfort on the Maine , 1671. The stories are strung together in chronological order , at least in so far that those belonging to each century are knotted up in a bunch by ...
... death . The date of the second edition , now before us , is Frankfort on the Maine , 1671. The stories are strung together in chronological order , at least in so far that those belonging to each century are knotted up in a bunch by ...
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... Colomesiana ' was first published by Paul Colomies in 1675 , many years before his death , not however under the title by which it is now commonly known , but under that of ' Mélanges Historiques . UPON TABLE - TALK . 35 35.
... Colomesiana ' was first published by Paul Colomies in 1675 , many years before his death , not however under the title by which it is now commonly known , but under that of ' Mélanges Historiques . UPON TABLE - TALK . 35 35.
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... death , from his own papers , under the title of the Huetiana . " Urbain Chevreau , when towards the end of his life he published two volumes of miscellanies ( first at Paris in 1697 , and again at Amsterdam in 1700 ) , even gave them ...
... death , from his own papers , under the title of the Huetiana . " Urbain Chevreau , when towards the end of his life he published two volumes of miscellanies ( first at Paris in 1697 , and again at Amsterdam in 1700 ) , even gave them ...
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... death . Walpole's unrivalled talent of light narrative , and the authentic and select character of the fragments here preserved , make this one of the most piquant and highly esteemed of the Ana . 6 Some of our biographical works ...
... death . Walpole's unrivalled talent of light narrative , and the authentic and select character of the fragments here preserved , make this one of the most piquant and highly esteemed of the Ana . 6 Some of our biographical works ...
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