The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... LATIN DISTICHS 51. HOW TALL WAS ADAM ? 52. How To SQUARE THE CIRCLE 53. How IT HAPPENED THAT THE CARDINAL DU PERRON HAD A PRODIGIOUS MEMORY 54. TURKISH PROVERBS 55. A DEVIL AT THE TOP OF ST . PAUL'S 56. THE DUKE DE LAVAL 270 271 275 276 ...
... LATIN DISTICHS 51. HOW TALL WAS ADAM ? 52. How To SQUARE THE CIRCLE 53. How IT HAPPENED THAT THE CARDINAL DU PERRON HAD A PRODIGIOUS MEMORY 54. TURKISH PROVERBS 55. A DEVIL AT THE TOP OF ST . PAUL'S 56. THE DUKE DE LAVAL 270 271 275 276 ...
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... Latin epithets- " Liber rarus , carus , ex Sacræ Scrip- turæ et venerandæ Antiquitatis arcanis exaratus , va- riisque Allegoriis , Tropologiis , et Allusionibus , Anagoricis , Hierographicis , Symbolicis , Iconographicis , et Mytholo ...
... Latin epithets- " Liber rarus , carus , ex Sacræ Scrip- turæ et venerandæ Antiquitatis arcanis exaratus , va- riisque Allegoriis , Tropologiis , et Allusionibus , Anagoricis , Hierographicis , Symbolicis , Iconographicis , et Mytholo ...
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... observation in any book , Greek or Latin , that fell into his hands . He modestly claims no further merit as belonging to the work , or as distin- guishing it from other similar compilations , than that its 8 AN INTRODUCTORY TALK.
... observation in any book , Greek or Latin , that fell into his hands . He modestly claims no further merit as belonging to the work , or as distin- guishing it from other similar compilations , than that its 8 AN INTRODUCTORY TALK.
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... Latin , Salmasius ) , whose edition of the work appeared in two volumes folio , at Paris , in 1629. The term Polyhistor , by the bye , which may be translated the Manifold Historian , has been assumed as the title of one of the ablest ...
... Latin , Salmasius ) , whose edition of the work appeared in two volumes folio , at Paris , in 1629. The term Polyhistor , by the bye , which may be translated the Manifold Historian , has been assumed as the title of one of the ablest ...
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... nothing else than a miscellany of anecdotes , related in that strange , jolting doggrel called political verse . Numerous Latin collections of the same kind also sprung up soon after this time for the use of UPON TABLE - TALK . 15.
... nothing else than a miscellany of anecdotes , related in that strange , jolting doggrel called political verse . Numerous Latin collections of the same kind also sprung up soon after this time for the use of UPON TABLE - TALK . 15.
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