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Page 11
... matter of title - pages from our German doctor . Both the elder Pliny , in the Dedication of his ' Natural History ' to Prince Titus , the son of the Emperor Ves- pasian , and Aulus Gellius , in the Preface to UPON TABLE - TALK . 11.
... matter of title - pages from our German doctor . Both the elder Pliny , in the Dedication of his ' Natural History ' to Prince Titus , the son of the Emperor Ves- pasian , and Aulus Gellius , in the Preface to UPON TABLE - TALK . 11.
Page 12
... matters memorable , and observations , " has scarcely a claim to this title in its modern use . Of these " histories , " or , as we should now rather call them , stories , & c . , the thirty - six books of which it con- sists , contain ...
... matters memorable , and observations , " has scarcely a claim to this title in its modern use . Of these " histories , " or , as we should now rather call them , stories , & c . , the thirty - six books of which it con- sists , contain ...
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... matter from Pliny's Natural History without acknow- ledgment , he seems very well to deserve the nickname that has been bestowed upon him , or one still stronger . The ' Polyhistor , ' however , has been made the subject of a commentary ...
... matter from Pliny's Natural History without acknow- ledgment , he seems very well to deserve the nickname that has been bestowed upon him , or one still stronger . The ' Polyhistor , ' however , has been made the subject of a commentary ...
Page 20
... matter , has con- tributed to increase the reader's entertainment , our col- lector has taken care to preface almost every story with the name or reign of a Roman emperor , who , at the same time , is often a monarch that never existed ...
... matter , has con- tributed to increase the reader's entertainment , our col- lector has taken care to preface almost every story with the name or reign of a Roman emperor , who , at the same time , is often a monarch that never existed ...
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... Whatever the title Anecdotes may have been intended to express in this instance , it has repeatedly been used in modern times to designate merely matter of any kind " which had not been previously published . Thus , UPON TABLE - TALK . 23.
... Whatever the title Anecdotes may have been intended to express in this instance , it has repeatedly been used in modern times to designate merely matter of any kind " which had not been previously published . Thus , UPON TABLE - TALK . 23.
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