The Book of Table-talk, Volume 1C. Knight, 1836 - Anecdotes |
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... physician , and is the author of several works on medical subjects . The title - page of the Memorable and Recondite Read- - ings , or Wolf's Centuries , as the compilation 4 AN INTRODUCTORY TALK MONUMENT OF THE LAST OF THE PALEOLOGI.
... physician , and is the author of several works on medical subjects . The title - page of the Memorable and Recondite Read- - ings , or Wolf's Centuries , as the compilation 4 AN INTRODUCTORY TALK MONUMENT OF THE LAST OF THE PALEOLOGI.
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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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... century are knotted up in a bunch by themselves . Of the sixteen centuries from the com- mencement of the Christian era , over which the author's gleanings extend , fifteen are despatched in the first vo- lume ; the whole of the second ...
... century are knotted up in a bunch by themselves . Of the sixteen centuries from the com- mencement of the Christian era , over which the author's gleanings extend , fifteen are despatched in the first vo- lume ; the whole of the second ...
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... century of our era , although made up , in the greater part , of critical observations on books , are still sufficiently general and miscellaneous to be reckoned in the class of works of which we are here treating . They were compiled ...
... century of our era , although made up , in the greater part , of critical observations on books , are still sufficiently general and miscellaneous to be reckoned in the class of works of which we are here treating . They were compiled ...
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... century , has been called by some the plunderer , by others the ape , of Gellius , from whom he has undoubtedly pilfered li- berally , as he has also done from other writers ; though he has given us much that is curious and valuable of ...
... century , has been called by some the plunderer , by others the ape , of Gellius , from whom he has undoubtedly pilfered li- berally , as he has also done from other writers ; though he has given us much that is curious and valuable of ...
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