The Book of Table-talk, Volumes 1-2 |
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... name is not known , but who appears to have lived about the year 1480 ; and this enlarged edition professes to be revised and corrected by a learned Jesuit . The examples or stories , it is affirmed , have AN INTRODUCTORY TALK.
... name is not known , but who appears to have lived about the year 1480 ; and this enlarged edition professes to be revised and corrected by a learned Jesuit . The examples or stories , it is affirmed , have AN INTRODUCTORY TALK.
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... stories are grouped together under heads , and the whole work is divided into ten books , or distinctions , as they are ... story - lovers of the Ro- man persuasion ; but Protestantism also had its books of table - talk . Among these was ...
... stories are grouped together under heads , and the whole work is divided into ten books , or distinctions , as they are ... story - lovers of the Ro- man persuasion ; but Protestantism also had its books of table - talk . Among these was ...
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... Stories sacred and profane , and other Inventions of the Ingenious ; in compendious Accounts of Chronology , of Christian Doc- trine , of Heresies , of Schisms , of Persecutions ; of Em- perors , of Popes , and of other learned and ...
... Stories sacred and profane , and other Inventions of the Ingenious ; in compendious Accounts of Chronology , of Christian Doc- trine , of Heresies , of Schisms , of Persecutions ; of Em- perors , of Popes , and of other learned and ...
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... 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 themselves . Of the sixteen centuries from the commencement of the Christian era , over which 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 themselves . Of the sixteen centuries from the commencement of the Christian era , over which the ...
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... stories , & c . , the thirty - six books of which it con- sists , contain , according to an enumeration found in se- veral of the old manuscripts , about forty thousand ; and they are taken from the whole field , not only of what is ...
... stories , & c . , the thirty - six books of which it con- sists , contain , according to an enumeration found in se- veral of the old manuscripts , about forty thousand ; and they are taken from the whole field , not only of what is ...
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