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... translated , the whole circle of instruction ) , which he tells us was the name commonly given by the Greeks to ... translator , Philemon Holland , " notable things , histories , matters memorable , and observations , " has scarcely a ...
... translated , the whole circle of instruction ) , which he tells us was the name commonly given by the Greeks to ... translator , Philemon Holland , " notable things , histories , matters memorable , and observations , " has scarcely a ...
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... translation ( a very bad one , by the bye , but the only English translation of this author that exists ) may be found , extracted from the ' Bibliotheca Latina ' of the learned John Albert Fabricius , and from other sources , a list of ...
... translation ( a very bad one , by the bye , but the only English translation of this author that exists ) may be found , extracted from the ' Bibliotheca Latina ' of the learned John Albert Fabricius , and from other sources , a list of ...
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... translation of this work . Nor do we possess any version in our language of a much richer and more copious book of table - talk of those times , the celebrated ' Deipnosophista , ' or Banquet of the Learned , of Athenæus . Athenæus ...
... translation of this work . Nor do we possess any version in our language of a much richer and more copious book of table - talk of those times , the celebrated ' Deipnosophista , ' or Banquet of the Learned , of Athenæus . Athenæus ...
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... translations of Athenæus , neither of which , how- ever , enjoys much reputation . One , published in a quarto volume in 1680 , is by the old doer of all work in that line , Michel de Marolles ; on the title - page of a copy of whose ...
... translations of Athenæus , neither of which , how- ever , enjoys much reputation . One , published in a quarto volume in 1680 , is by the old doer of all work in that line , Michel de Marolles ; on the title - page of a copy of whose ...
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... translation of Elian , which appeared in a quarto volume in 1576 , under the title of Elian's Registre of Hystories , by Abraham Fleming , ' a person by whom our early litera- ture was enriched with many other translations from the ...
... translation of Elian , which appeared in a quarto volume in 1576 , under the title of Elian's Registre of Hystories , by Abraham Fleming , ' a person by whom our early litera- ture was enriched with many other translations from the ...
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