The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... called a name . But , very well as all this may be in its way , it would make a weary world if we had nothing else . Therefore , as Sancho Panza , in his honest natural horror at the idea of constant movement and exertion , invoked ...
... called a name . But , very well as all this may be in its way , it would make a weary world if we had nothing else . Therefore , as Sancho Panza , in his honest natural horror at the idea of constant movement and exertion , invoked ...
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... various dishes of intellectual hotch - potch , which this taste has called forth both in the ancient and the modern world , would considerably outmeasure , we sus- pect 2 AN INTRODUCTORY TALK NAMES OF AUTHORS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
... various dishes of intellectual hotch - potch , which this taste has called forth both in the ancient and the modern world , would considerably outmeasure , we sus- pect 2 AN INTRODUCTORY TALK NAMES OF AUTHORS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
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... called , exclusive of a pretty long appendix . One of the most curious things in this volume is a list which it contains of previous works of the same descrip- tion , or , as it is expressed , of authors who have profess- edly written ...
... called , exclusive of a pretty long appendix . One of the most curious things in this volume is a list which it contains of previous works of the same descrip- tion , or , as it is expressed , of authors who have profess- edly written ...
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... called Aulic Counsellor to the Margrave of Baden . Melchior Adam takes great pains to guard his readers against con- founding this John Wolf with another John Wolf , or rather Wolph , who was Professor of Theology at Zurich , and wrote ...
... called Aulic Counsellor to the Margrave of Baden . Melchior Adam takes great pains to guard his readers against con- founding this John Wolf with another John Wolf , or rather Wolph , who was Professor of Theology at Zurich , and wrote ...
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Charles MacFarlane. - ings , or Wolf's Centuries , as the compilation is sometimes called , has been rarely matched . We should in vain at- tempt to imitate in humble modern English the solemn and imposing pomp of its long procession of ...
Charles MacFarlane. - ings , or Wolf's Centuries , as the compilation is sometimes called , has been rarely matched . We should in vain at- tempt to imitate in humble modern English the solemn and imposing pomp of its long procession of ...
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