The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... Prince Titus , the son of the Emperor Vespasian , and Aulus Gellius , in the Preface to his Attic . Nights , have enumerated several examples of what the latter calls the " festivitates inscriptionum ” —the fanci- ful titles - which had ...
... Prince Titus , the son of the Emperor Vespasian , and Aulus Gellius , in the Preface to his Attic . Nights , have enumerated several examples of what the latter calls the " festivitates inscriptionum ” —the fanci- ful titles - which had ...
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... prince , Ferdinand II , was still at the head of the Empire ; and at one time certainly this hero of the Thirty Years ' war had his foot pretty firmly planted upon the neck of the Protestants throughout the greater part of Ger- many ...
... prince , Ferdinand II , was still at the head of the Empire ; and at one time certainly this hero of the Thirty Years ' war had his foot pretty firmly planted upon the neck of the Protestants throughout the greater part of Ger- many ...
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... Prince of Carpi , he engrafted , by consent , another name upon his previous ones , and was Aldus Pius Manutius Romanus , the well - known printer . There is a reverse sort of instance in Barthelemi , se- cretary of the Duke of Ferrara ...
... Prince of Carpi , he engrafted , by consent , another name upon his previous ones , and was Aldus Pius Manutius Romanus , the well - known printer . There is a reverse sort of instance in Barthelemi , se- cretary of the Duke of Ferrara ...
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... prince who , in two assaults upon a town , had killed six men with his own hand : " Bah ! " said he , “ I would have you to know , that the very mattresses I sleep upon are stuffed with nothing else but the whiskers of those whom I have ...
... prince who , in two assaults upon a town , had killed six men with his own hand : " Bah ! " said he , “ I would have you to know , that the very mattresses I sleep upon are stuffed with nothing else but the whiskers of those whom I have ...
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... Prince de Condé alone received me with open arms , but his friendship could do nothing for me . One night I was assaulted in the streets of Paris by ruffians , from whose daggers I escaped with difficulty . After having wandered for ...
... Prince de Condé alone received me with open arms , but his friendship could do nothing for me . One night I was assaulted in the streets of Paris by ruffians , from whose daggers I escaped with difficulty . After having wandered for ...
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