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... letters was a volume entitled the ' Speculum Exemplorum , ' and in the latter and fatter editions the Magnum Speculum Exem- plorum ; that is , the Great Looking - glass of Examples . An edition of this work in small quarto , printed at ...
... letters was a volume entitled the ' Speculum Exemplorum , ' and in the latter and fatter editions the Magnum Speculum Exem- plorum ; that is , the Great Looking - glass of Examples . An edition of this work in small quarto , printed at ...
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... letter so late as the year 1689 . In one passage of his history , Warton says of this work , " It appears to me to have been formed on the model of Valerius Maximus , the favourite classic of the monks . It is quoted and commended as a ...
... letter so late as the year 1689 . In one passage of his history , Warton says of this work , " It appears to me to have been formed on the model of Valerius Maximus , the favourite classic of the monks . It is quoted and commended as a ...
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... letters speaks of having in his possession . He calls them ' Grotiana , ' ' Borboniana , ' and ' Naudæana . ' None of these Ana , how- ever , we believe , have ever been published ; for the collec- tion which appeared at Paris in 1701 ...
... letters speaks of having in his possession . He calls them ' Grotiana , ' ' Borboniana , ' and ' Naudæana . ' None of these Ana , how- ever , we believe , have ever been published ; for the collec- tion which appeared at Paris in 1701 ...
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... , corrected into Scaligerana , the form that has been since universally adopted . The publication of the ' Scaligerana ' made an extraordi- mary sensation in the world of letters , and the UPON TABLE - TALK . 29 Blue-beard.
... , corrected into Scaligerana , the form that has been since universally adopted . The publication of the ' Scaligerana ' made an extraordi- mary sensation in the world of letters , and the UPON TABLE - TALK . 29 Blue-beard.
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Charles MacFarlane, Charles Bucke. mary sensation in the world of letters , and the excite- ment which it administered to the public curiosity im- mediately set men's minds a - craving after further sup- plies of the same sort . These ...
Charles MacFarlane, Charles Bucke. mary sensation in the world of letters , and the excite- ment which it administered to the public curiosity im- mediately set men's minds a - craving after further sup- plies of the same sort . These ...
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